It's not really a band, like I said, but I work with tons of amazingly gifted, brilliant musicians.
Influences
Albert Ayler, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, John Cage, Bartok, Lygeti, Iggy, Bowie, Eno, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, J.Cash, Missy Elliot, most of the people I've had the pleasure of working with, I like it all, although can usually complain about most of it.
I'll update this later- but for now- I'm a musician/composer/producer. I've worked with a ton of people you might know, among them- Iggy pop, John Cale, Chris Whitley, Marrianne Faithfull, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jack Bruce, Brian Eno, Arto Lindsay, Casandra Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Marissa Monte, Caetano Velosa, Tom Verlaine, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Cibo Matto, I was a member of the Lounge Lizards for much of my adult life... blah blah... too many others to think of right now. By the way, when I say worked with, I mean worked with, not been in the same room with once....Currently, I produce records mostly, although I've resumed playing live somewhat, with a band called Doveman, a wonderful group, led by Thomas Bartlett- the new record is beautiful, and the shows are quite special. Thomas has been instrumental, I might say unrelenting, in getting me to play drums again, for which I'll always be thankful. I work with a singer named Haale, we write together, and I perform live with her now, lately as guitar guy, which I'm really enjoying... The gigs have been great recently, rocking hard. Anyway, I figured I'd get onboard here- I'll put up things I'm working on, home done things, works in progress, stuff that would most likely never see the light of day. Hope someone likes it.
Oh, about the pieces- Pianistic Guitarand Noix Guitar, emerged from my use of the guitar, or rather abuse of the six stringed beast, using some fairly extreme extended tunings, with various instruments added, but the main thrust is the use of the guitar as a starting point for writing- for me, it's a kind of reactive composition, stemming from, and based on the tunings or sounds coaxed out of the instrument. Pianistic resulted form a bizarre tuning, and use of a wall of reverb, I think it reminds me of some prepared piano pieces... Noix- well, it's noises that came from an accidental tuning, also I've been using radios and tape players played through the pickup of the guitar for some time now- put some string arrangement around the basic take- not sure about the string parts yet, but all these pieces are in the works, so... I'm persuing the guitar compositions, hopefully for a record later this year...I'll put more of them up soon. Carla Tampered is electronic based, it's the wonderful Carla Kihltedt on violin, a track I manipulated very much, it was originally a solo on a pop record I produced...Tea is another electronic type thing, liked the sounds generated it resulted from just following the sonics.
Working on a kind of ambient record, stumbled into a, (I think), distinct sonic realm fuking around with Live, Kenji (Shimoda, my partner) and I had the idea of having different singers on the tracks- no beats, nothing like that, so I think it'll be slightly unique.
Also will finally ne making The Drunken Animals record, written by myself and Alan Rand, a brilliant writer of words and amazing musician. Maybe I'll put some of that stuff up too...aight, thanks for stopping by, db.
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Dougieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Miss ya bro! How's the new place going ??? Hey man, you where right... After 3 shows almost 200 copy's sold! yeehaaha I'm so grateful
ciao my old (!!) friend. hi, my inspirer. hello, to you, one of the reasons my life changed so deeply and beautifully. your music really is. and you really are.
good to hear that you are making music again. we've never met, but i saw you with stone tiger and a bunch of other stuff BITD, and tronzo & medeski & all the guys who play with d'elf who played with you sing your praises. so you got that going for you, which is nice. the new music is bueno, and i hope we get to make some sounds together sometime. much respect.
Hi dougie bowne,
it's nice 2 meet you. Thank U 4 ADDing me. I'm happy to B. your friend. + keep on the good energy. Have a wonderful day :-)
Peace and Love
B. Eitan
Good to see you again! Haven't seen you since I saw you with Chris Whitley a few years back!!!He always loved seeing you , I remember how his whole mood would change in your presence- thanks for all the joy you brought to him- I am trying to get something going to benefit Trix and leave a legacy for her father, maybe you can help. I will e-mail you details.
Thanks,
Rachel, TEXAS
thanks for the add, i love your music.
when are you gonna make another record (since your 'one way elevator' ? and i'd be glad to hear and see you in paris (long time since the lounge lizards...)
come and see my painting and engraving, i'll be glad !
all the best from paris,
rdc
