MAJOR INFLUENCES:
Yes, The Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, The Who, Brian Eno, Eric Johnson, Al DiMeola, Dire Straits, Jethro Tull, baroque music (Bach and friends) , King Crimson, Deep Purple, Earl Klugh, Pink Floyd, Pat Martino, The Cure, Jean Luc Ponty
OTHER INFLUENCES:
Mystically depicted characters holding stringed instruments, Pharoah Sanders (and crew), Pat Metheny, George Benson, The Shins, Alex DeGrassi, David Hudson, Tangerine Dream, various members/former members of the UNR jazz program, The Orb, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Mercyful Fate, Cat Stevens, Moby, Liquid Tension Experiment, the Misfits, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Steely Dan, Chicago, Robert Fripp, obscure Aboriginal tribal didjeridoo recordings, The Byrds, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, John Lennon, the Doobie Brothers, Eric Clapton, The Fixx, The Future Sound of London, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane (and friends), King Harvest, Steve Reich, Mark Knopfler, Dion and the Belmonts, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Rolling Stones (Wassamatta Wichu Bowah), Michael Hedges, Modest Mouse, Nick Drake, Ozzy, the Ramones (1,2,3,4!), Robin Bullock, Rush, Scott Cossu, Michael Jackson, The Glove, Django Reinhardt, Krishna Das, Boston, 311, Simon and Garfunkle, Spacetime Continuum, Thin Lizzy, A lot of what our friend Eck brings over for us to listen to when we hang out, Van Halen, Deep Forest, and motivational dance/fight music from old school SEGA videogames.
Sounds Like
Phantoms and colorful birds running through puddles of pirahnas at the end of the world.
Flamingo Matrix started in the spring of '06 when Alex Johnson called Alex Miller to play guitar on some songs he'd written. Alex Miller agreed after hearing some demos, and began composing and practicing regularly. With Patrick Chapman on the bass, FM was a trio for some time, occasionally auditioning drummers, rhythm guitar players and multi-instrumentalists to fill out the sound and enable the band to perform live. After many less than successful auditions, it was decided that Miller was to be the only guitarist in the band, and that the only necessary addition was a drummer.
After a period of about a year, FM found their first drummer, Jake. Jake played with the band for about a year, which allowed them to gig for that time at various small venues around Reno. They gathered a small following, at first consisting mostly of an extended network of friends, then slowly expanding via word of mouth, playing with and/or opening for bigger bands, and radio interviews. Due to growing tensions and frustrations in the band, Jake left and was soon replaced with Todd Hayes, a student at UNR who contacted the band through an online ad.
FM had always been a creative project focused mostly on composing and performing original music, with a few scattered covers decorating the set lists of live shows. During the midwinter of '08/'09, Miller had been out of the country for several weeks, and came back to Johnson's decision to leave the band, thus rendering FM an instrumental trio. Johnson and Miller had built up a considerable catalogue of original material which would have amounted to one or two LPs, but no professional recordings had ever been made, and the band was left with only home-studio closet recordings of those songs and no singer with which to make plans for a future professional recording session. Most of the original songs that had been composed during this time were set aside until another vocalist would join the group, and the trio began working immediately and intensively to build up a new repertoire of instrumental music, consisting mostly of Miller's compositions and group improvisation.
Todd played with the group until the spring of '09.
Currently, Flamingo Matrix is at a point of transition and will probably be back in action by the fall. Collaborative summer shows are in the wind. More updates to come.
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Patrick Chapman- ChapdawG09
Alex Miller- theyellowleaf626
Alex Miller of Flamingo Matrix jamming "Hey...Olivia" at XOXO Bar Jan. 2008
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Tampa Taiko is a professional drumming duo that has performed their unique style for a vast array of audiences, performing at festivals, concert halls, schools, workshops, summer camps, corporate and VIP events. Using a collection of taiko drums made by themselves from discarded wine barrels, Tampa Taiko has developed a dynamic fusion of old and new styles of drumming, bringing a contemporary vibrance to an ancient martial artform.
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Just wanted to let you know that we're gonna be opening for Red on May 28th at the underground. It's all ages and we'll be selling tickets for cheaper so hit us up if you wanna go! Come check out TSP playing all new material from our upcoming EP.
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