Brandon Valdivia - Drums and Percussion
Colin Fisher - Guitar, Saxophone, Pedals, Bouzouki, Vocals, auxillary percussion.
Nick Storring - Computer, Cello, Dictaphone, Casio SK-1, vocals, auxillary percussion, small flutes, bird calls.
Influences
Alice Coltrane, Supersilent, Pharoah Sanders, Faust, Morton Feldman, This Heat, Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, balinese & javanese gamelan, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Sarah Peebles, Autechre, Electric Miles Davis, Don Cherry, Nilan Perera, Polwechsel, Krakatau, Squarepusher, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Derek Bailey, Nels Cline, Peter Brotzmann, Fennesz, LaConnor, Barnyard Drama, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Mephista, Black Dice, Arthur Russell, The Silt, Iannis Xenakis, Shalabi Effect, Boredoms, Deep Dark United, Kayo Dot, Sonny Sharrock, Brian Eno, Laura Barrett, Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble, Terry Riley, Paul Bley & Annette Peacock, Can, Eric Dolphy, Last Exit, Awesome, Paul Schutze, Brian Ruryk.
Sounds Like
Dinner-jazz to accompany a meal of skyscrapers, houses, roads, cars, people etc.
I Have Eaten The City is an improvising trio which started in May of 2005. While we approach playing without any concrete musical ideas, the music can be traced to our eclectic tastes and wide range of interests and experiences. There are aspects of free-jazz, abstract post-techno electronica, musique concrete, experimental rock, krautrock, psychedelia, noise, ambient music and even features of various non-western musics.
Independently of the trio we all pursue various musical paths. All three members are highly active in the thriving Toronto creative music scene. Nick Storring (cello/ computer) and Brandon Valdivia (drums/ percussion) both studied composition at Wilfrid Laurier University. Colin Fisher (guitar/ saxophone) plays with experimental rock trio Sing That Yell That Spell, free-jazz quartet Chronic D, and has recorded with the Constantines. Nick makes electronic music on his own under his own name and a pseudonym, Piege. Both Brandon and Nick are currently playing with Picastro.
Each member of I Have Eaten The City is also a proud member of the Association of Improvising Musicians of Toronto. Please take the time to visit the AIMT Myspace at www.myspace.com/aimtoronto
By the way the name comes from the poem "manhattan" by hr hays.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE HAVING DIFFICULTIES WITH PAYPAL BUTTONS RIGHT NOW AND NEED TO MAKE A NEW BATCH OF CD-RS. AS SUCH, CDRS ARE NOT AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW (03/05/2009). WE ALSO HAVE A NEW ONE COMING SOMETIME SOONISH!
This is our first CD-R album! It features three long pieces (one excerpt can be heard above), which fuse free-jazz, electronics, and modern classical tendencies, and psychedelia. It is 77 minutes long.
Feral Geography is our second disc. It could be characterized as more ambient-informed, with a broader instrumental palette including bouzouki, flutes and more percussion of various sorts. It is 4 pieces over 6 tracks.
Live At The Music Gallery is limited to 100 copies, and captures a recording of us performing at the Over Top Festival in May 2006, where we played with Awesome and the Nihilist Spasm Band. It is probably our most ambient, subdued recording with a lot of warm digital textures, and melodic elements. It consists of 5 tracks which run continuously for over 45 minutes.
Decay is possibly the least psychedelic/ ambient recording we've done. It relies more on a language consisting of extended instrumental techniques, textural noise, atonal figures, and unpitched sounds. That being said, it is not by any means a full-throttle freak-out. The result is a unsettlingly intimate-sounding album with an almost acoustic, naturalistic sound, evoking perhaps Peter Brotzmann groupings, or certain ESP-Disk recordings. It contains two unedited pieces recorded live at the AIMToronto Fundraiser 2006.
All discs are available online securely through Paypal now, and at Soundscapes in Toronto, and at Encore Records in Kitchener. If neither of these options are possible for you feel free to drop us a line at: i_have_eaten_the_city@hotmail.com.
do all the coolest people ever live in toronto? its seems like it. really. i would love to play with you some time. it would be a highlight of my life. i you are interested, here is our website. www.andrasklang.com
FUCK YA I DO THIS THING LIVE. IN FACT, IM GONNA BE DOING IT THE FIRST TIME SATURDAY AUG. 4TH AT MY HOUSE. IT'S GONNA BE AN AWESOME PARTY WITH SPACE PIZZA, ALIEN CONTRABANDS, BOOZE, AND AN 8MM PROJECTOR, NOT TO MENTION THE COSMIC TONES BROUGHT TO US FROM HUL-KOGINZ HIMSELF, A NATIVE OF A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. PLEASE JOIN US IF YOU CAN.
Please forgive this small mass-message-type comment, but we just want to tell everyone about our latest project: "DIG YOUR ROOTS - CREATIVE JAZZ". Independent artists, CDs, live concerts aired on radio stations . . . it's all quite exciting for us. Come on over to our page to check out all the details.
We'll be back here soon to see what's up with you these days. Feel free to drop us a comment in the meantime.
One of the perks of being a MTE friend is that we like to stop by and leave a comment. Hope you don't mind and we hope you are having an awesome early new year!
Ahoy from 10-D PJ
Seasons greetings good friend!
This time next year you may be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Hey
I just wanted to say that I had high expectations of you guys and you didn't disappoint. Beautiful peformance at the Buddha last night! Can't wait to hear you again
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