Charlie Naked: tenor and alto saxophones, wooden flute, percussion, etc...currently sitar and korg as well! Dan McMahon: acoustic and electric basses, percussion, etc...and stuff. WITH, at times, Vaughan Boone: drums... Mike Switzer: trombone... Jim Otterson: guitar... Rose Lange: viola, violin... Robert Pearson: keyboards... Tom Zermeno: percussion... John Atlas: tenor saxophone... David Maddox: tenor and soprano saxophones...
Influences
Albert Ayler, Sun Ra & His (many) Arkestra's, the Art Ensemble of Chicago! Eddy Detroit, Alvarius B, Sun City Girls, Uncle Jim, Charles Gocher/New Session People, Zip Code Rapists, the Easy Goings, Gregg Turkington, Neil Hamburger, Faxed Head, Monopause/Neung Phak, Porest/Mark Gergis, Secret Chiefs 3, etc. etc. and Eyvind Kang! EVERYTHING on Sublime Frequencies! Climax Golden Twins, Victrola Favorites, jazz classics w/Cantinflas, Ennio Morricone, Caroliner, Capt. Beefheart, Mothers of Invention, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, David Izenzon, Charles Mingus, Alan Silva, William Parker, Peter Kowald, Henry Grimes, Charlie Haden, Air/Henry Threadgill, Fred Frith, Sonny Sharrock, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Sonny Simmons, Jackie Mclean, Mark Ribot, Christian Marclay, ESP/BYG recordings, AMM, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Pharaoh Sanders, Sunny Murray, Milford Graves, Hamid Drake, Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, Peter Brotzmann, Peter. Thomas. Sound. Orchester, Harry Partch, the Residents, Karlheinz Stockhausen, R.D. Burman (etc.) Helen;Queen of the Nautch girls, Ananda Shankar, BOREDOMS, Otomo Yoshihide, bUTTHOLE sURFERS (their earlier stuff!) also, any "Folk/Traditional/classical" music from just about every region right of the North Atlantic Ocean and just left of the North Pacific Ocean!
Sounds Like
sounds NOTHING like; Albert Ayler, Sun Ra & His (many) Arkestra's, the Art Ensemble of Chicago! Eddy Detroit, Alvarius B, Sun City Girls, Uncle Jim, Charles Gocher/New Session People, Zip Code Rapists, the Easy Goings, Gregg Turkington, Neil Hamburger, Faxed Head, Monopause/Neung Phak, Porest/Mark Gergis, Secret Chiefs 3, etc. etc. and Eyvind Kang! EVERYTHING on Sublime Frequencies! Climax Golden Twins, Victrola Favorites, jazz classics w/Cantinflas, Ennio Morricone, Caroliner, Capt. Beefheart, Mothers of Invention, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, David Izenzon, Charles Mingus, Alan Silva, William Parker, Peter Kowald, Henry Grimes, Charlie Haden, Air/Henry Threadgill, Fred Frith, Sonny Sharrock, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Sonny Simmons, Jackie Mclean, Mark Ribot, Christian Marclay, ESP/BYG recordings, AMM, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Pharaoh Sanders, Sunny Murray, Milford Graves, Hamid Drake, Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, Peter Brotzmann, Peter. Thomas. Sound. Orchester, Harry Partch, the Residents, Karlheinz Stockhausen, R.D. Burman (etc.) Helen;Queen of the Nautch girls, Ananda Shankar, BOREDOMS, Otomo Yoshihide, bUTTHOLE sURFERS (their earlier stuff!) also, any "Folk/Traditional/classical" music from just about every region right of the North Atlantic Ocean and just left of the North Pacific Ocean!
Record Label
Hawthorne Improvisation Collective & Burnt Records
In 2003, saxophonist Charlie Naked and drummer Vaughan Boone joined forces along with me, Dan to become Fist of Kong. A "free jazz" trio playing spontaneously improvised music: free of preconceptions, premeditation, and overall, free of any thought given to creating what would & could possibly become very "heavy stuff" Though, (unfortunately) Boone left after about a year & a 1/2 with the group to persue further endeaveors on an island along the east coast, Naked and McMahon continued to "Fist" alternately as a duo (currently as often as possible), while at the same time playing with other members of Houston's "vibrant" free improv scene, including trombonist Mike Switzer, guitarist Jim Otterson, keyboardist Robert Pearson, saxophonist John Atlas, violist Rose Lange, percussionist Tom Zermeno, cellist Melisa Rose, and many others (not as often as we'd like however) Alas! The duo of Charlie & I has (& will) self-release(d) millions of albums of their own music...which are always available through www.cafepress.com/charlienaked/....AND also some other misc. recordings including compilations, lo-fi limited-run tapes/cd-r's will & are available through Burntrecords@hotmail.com. write if you will, buy if you'd like. most likely i will just send you stuff at random (upon request of course) we hope you like what you hear and will, if anything....stay tuned!
OH! i must give credit where credit is due (don't want to get a potato in the tailpipe!) In addition to the great players mentioned above; there are 2 other key players that are, from time to time included in our fisting practices. Mr. Kyle Carnes & Sir Peter Sullivan...which by the way are on the recent 2 disc set the "Skillet Sessions" available NOW!....or later?
yes I have resisted as well my friend...but the herd sure has some great videos Ha hHAA (I may be biased) ...maybe we'll have to count to 3 and take the plunge together one day. Ice cold or nauseatingly warm? hmmmm.... oh I met Aunt Kathy ( Uncle Jims ball and chain) and she was a real kick - wish you were there!
no shit! settled western civilization is no better, I was talking with a group of Gypsys last year. Two groups - the old school 'fuck all yall' and the 'we can work with them, lets get into the UN' Problem is the UN mandates are that you must own land to join. Well we Gypsys don't own land - we can't own land. God owns land. Earth owns land. land owners, civilization are imposters. So I said, if you really want to get into the UN then stake a claim out in the middle of the ocean, the minimum square meter and stake it as ours. Just let any country come and attack us or even find us for that matter - we are moving in the middle of the Pacific-- ha ha ! what could be more Gypsy than movement? They sort of laughed me off...but really - fuck all yall. ....HA hAaa....ooo c'est la vie!
Society? Society today is the same as 100 years ago from Gibran~
"God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful then that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?"
Music is the language of the Spirits. The air that flows through the horns, reverberates between the strings, echoes from the hull of the drums, projects through the chords inside our throats, is the air that our Wings can soar upon. Birds are the keepers of music. Music turns us from a crawling insect to a bird in flight. Never underestimate the source of Music.
ive been hit by the sweetest rock thanks dan, had a blast going through all those discs in one day. expect for some reason my CD player wouldnt play the first track off of each disc.
the good news is theres still unheard material to check out! you rule
fist! nice to meet you here. your message in the add was cut off, but I hope to meet you tomorrow at the show. again, thanks for friending me, and take care!
dont sweat it man, im real excited to check it out though. good things come to those who wait. till then ill just keep blowin up your myspace page. see you got a bunch of releases lined up to. good new for society!
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