Savage Knights

Bio:

We make instrumental music with strange intensity. Mike Isenberg (drums/keys/guitar) and Crowmeat Bob (reeds/guitar) are our primary composers. Our current line-up: Chris Eubank (cello/electric bass), Joey Chorley (electric bass/trumpet), and Tony Allen (guitar/percussion/drums/synth). We've got a few CDR collections: The most recent is called Bilocation, which includes our last session with Christopher Thurston at his home studio and a collection of stuff Jennifer Thomas recorded in our little practice space ("The Martian Demos"). They were recorded before Tony joined up and feature Brian Donohoe (Moog/percussion/drums), Terry Ford (drums) and Carrie Shull (oboe). Then there's the stufrf from a spell back with our former line-up (Phil Martelli on bass, Jon Hubbard on tenor sax, with guests Carrie Shull on english horn/oboe, Julian Sparacino on tenor sax/flute, and Peter Lamb on tenor sax) called "Solo Basura," a name suggested by our recording engineer for that session, Christopher Thurston. Our music varies stylistically from straight chord-change jazz to heavy-metal-jazz to Ornette-like head-improv-head to obsessive krautrock rhythms to doom metal to whatever else we feel like...

Member Since:

December 07, 2005

Members:

Crowmeat Bob - Alto Sax, Bass Clarinet, Guitar, Bari Sax; Mike Isenberg - Drums, Keys, Guitar; Chris Eubank - Cello, Bass Guitar; Joey Chorley - Bass Guitar, Trumpet; Tony Allen - Guitar, Percussion, Drums, Synth.

Influences:

Eric Dolphy, Olivier Messiaen, Teddy Bunn, Mustafa Ozkent, Sun Ra, Lonnie Johnson, Crimetime Orchestra, Earth, Curtis Mayfield, Charlie Parker, Captain Beefheart, Betty Davis, Mississippi Sheiks, John Coltrane, Mulatu Astatqe, Mary Halvorson, Led Zeppelin, John Zorn, Getatchew Mekuryu, Marc Ribot, Ike Turner, Slayer, The Meters, Ken Vandermark, Charley Patton, Mats Gustafsson, The Melvins, The Groundhogs, Joe Morris, Sly and the Family Stone, Otomo Yoshihide, Ornette Coleman, Sonic Youth, James "Blood" Ulmer, Sleep, The Secret Museum of Mankind (Shanachie), Charles Mingus, Scotty Moore, Blue Cheer, James Chance, Anton Webern, ESP Records, Duke Ellington, Frank Gratkowski, Bill Withers, The Stooges, Albert Ayler, Haino Keiji, Sublime Frequencies, John Butcher, Boris, Kaija Saariaho, Sonny Rollins, US Maple, Muddy Waters, DNA, Fela Kuti, Dexter Romweber, Can, Sunn 0))), Speed Glue and Shinki, Erik Satie, Derek Bailey, Miles Davis, Roy Smeck, Cliff Gallup, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bela Bartok, Bob Dunn, Lou Reed, Booker T & the MGs.

Sounds Like:

A '33 Oldsmobile with Sonny Sharrock under the hood.

Record Label:

Retroactive Dynamics, Inc.