Born and raised on the Canadian prairies, began playing electric bass at 12, travelling 100 km every week to study music theory and buy 70's hard rock lps. Further listening brought exposure to blues, jazz, reggae, and punk rock. A move to "the city" and its record library revealed free jazz, early electronic music/musique concrete and the music of Asia.
Efforts were made to accommodate this range of music within the limits of rock instrumentation, but eventually regular rhythms and tempered pitches were jettisoned in favor of open forms, improvisation, and exploration of the full sonic possibilities of steel strings and magnetic pickups.
Extensive live action in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan has provided opportunities to play with a wide range of musicians in event-specific one-off contexts, as well as ongoing multi-performance/recording fun with Jeffrey Allport, Kelly Churko, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Tom Hall, Shinichi Isohata, Katsura Mouri (Busratch), Bunsho Nishikawa, Joel Stern and Adam Sussmann.
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