Bruce Bennett, keyboards and computer
Byron H. Diel, percussions
Vance Galloway, guitars and processing
Michael Zbyszynski, flutes, saxophones, computer, and electronic wind instrument
Influences
our collective life experience
(and then in no certain order: Arnold Schoenberg, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jonathan Harvey, Anthony Braxton, Elliott Sharp, King Tubby, Bela Bartok, Pink Floyd, Zakir Hussain, Tristan Murail, Can, Jelly Roll Morton, Fredric Chopin, the Beatles, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, David Bowie, David Byrne, Frank Zappa, Maurice Ravel, Jimi Hendrix, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, FSOL, The Orb, Claude Debussy, Oliver Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Dr. L. Subramaniam, JS Bach, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Gyorgy Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Psychic TV, Stockhausen, Varese, Ludwig van Beethoven, Terminator X, Prince, The Residents, The Butthole Surfers, Elvin Jones, Sun Ra, Elliott Carter, Bjork, Autechre, The Tone Dogs, Aphex Twin, ...)
Respectable Citizen is an electronic improv-core ensemble that simply eludes any classification beyond eclectic. Their sound has been described as everything from ambient, illbient, experimental electronic, drum n bass, dub electronic, down-tempo, lounge, raga-esque, space rock, prog rock, to noise. The group only assembles for gigs and recording sessions as its members are scattered up and down the west coast. Bruce Bennett (now back in San Francisco after a year "on the road" as a refugee from New Orleans in the wake of Katrina) navigates a multimodal musical space of resonant sonorities littered with arabesques, classical quotations, and melismatic melodies. Byron H. Diel, a shamanistic visionary from Fresno, California, articulates ever-shifting meters and polyrhythmic play across a sampled drumscape. Vance Galloway, Seattle's most reclusive experimental electronic guru, sculpts the sound of his guitar through a wash of electronic manipulations from the spacious to the granulated. Michael Zbyszynski charms snakes and tantalizes the audience with heavy breathing and screaming saxophones. Together, they bring into play a dynamic and varied web of sound texture, rhythm, and melody sure to delight the connoisseur and the dilettante alike.
thanks sooooooo much for listening!!! :) so... no plans yet for playin san fran... keep checkin back once in a while... although... it's very rare i make it out that far... but you never know what comes up!!!! cheers!
If it's too far from your home, if you have better things to do, if you're scared to go out...discover
Jack Dupon's video almost live at a private concert...
Oppression
Si c'est trop loin de chez vous, si vous avez mieux a faire, si sortir vous fait peur... Découvrez la vidéo de Jack Dupon presque en live lors d'un concert privé filmé sur Clermont-1ère en octobre 2008...
That is respectably psychedelic. Oh, b/t/w, I was just listening to the Frith/Greaves/Blegvad- Zu Loft, N.Y.C. 12/19/78 from cassette. Some weird stuff done at that show. -RZ 70's Proggly.
