| Member Since | 1/12/2005 | | Band Website | www.tomblancarte.com | | Band Members | Tom Blancarte - bass
Liquid Surprise
Tom Blancarte - bass
Kevin Shea - drums
Andrew Drury - drums
Brian Osborne - drums
Sparks
Peter Evans - piccolo trumpet
Tom Blancarte - bass

Self-Titled CD available now on Creative Sources Recordings
Totem
Bruce Eisenbeil - guitar
Andrew Drury - drums
Tom Blancarte - bass

Solar Forge CD available June 10th '08 on ESP-Disk
Peter Evans Quartet
Peter Evans - trumpet
Brandon Seabrook - guitar and banjo
Tom Blancarte - bass
Kevin Shea - drums

Self-Titled Debut CD available from Firehouse12 Records
Seabrook Power Plant
Brandon Seabrook - banjo & guitar
Jared Seabrook - drums
Tom Blancarte - bass

New album coming out in 2009 on Loyal Label
Solos & Duos with Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen - alto saxophone
Tom Blancarte - bass
Storyship
Russell Holland - guitars, banjo, harmonium, percussion, etc.
Drew Pitcher - harmonica, clarinet, bass clarinet, guitars, banjo, etc.
Tom Blancarte - bass, guitar
Adam Caine Trio
Adam Caine - guitar
Tom Blancarte - bass
John Wagner - drums

New album out now on No Business Records
The Perfect Man
Dave Smith - trombone
Mikel Banks: freakaphone
Nick Chapman - analog synth
Tom Blancarte - bass
Conor Elmes or Sunny Jain - drums
Torus
Drew Pitcher - alto sax
Alejandro Florez - guitar
Tom Blancarte - bass

Self-titled debut CD-R available on my SNOCAP page
Of/Ether
Jeremiah Cymerman - clarinet
Amie Weiss - violin
Sam Kulik - trombones
Tom Blancarte - bass
Un-named
Nick Lyons - alto sax
Adam Caine - guitar
Carol Liebowitz - piano
Tom Blancarte - bass
George Steeltoe Ensemble
Brian Osborne - drums
Lathan Hardy - sax
Michael Barker - electronics
Tom Blancarte - bass
and others
Piano Trio
Carol Liebowitz - piano
Tom Blancarte - bass
John Wagner - drums
| | Influences | Evan Parker, Ran Prieur, Scott LaFaro, Anthony Braxton, Mike Tyson, Idries Shah, Wayne Shorter, Michael Bakunin, Slayer, John Zorn, Mark Dresser, the ocean, Mark Rothko, Pablo Neruda, Ray Brown, Charlie Parker, Morbid Angel, J.S. Bach, Anton Von Webern, Bud Powell, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Barry Guy, Soseki, Dostoyevsky, Sparks, Belgium and it’s wonderful brews, Aldous Huxley, George Lewis, Bill Evans, Metallica, Talking Heads, pommes frites, Gary Peacock, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, plants, Thelonious Monk, Ami Yoshida, Victor Jara, Chet Baker, watching the Blue Planet, uncomfortable situations, Jorge Luis Borges, the sound of cicadas in the summer, Cryptopsy, Bill Dixon, Taku Sugimoto, Keith Jarrett, bridges, Ned Rothenberg, Mike Patton, Radiohead, the Police, Ornette Coleman, the taste of great bourbon (particularly Booker’s and Wild Turkey Rare Breed), Albert Ayler, Bjork, Willem De Kooning, Derek Bailey, having sex, Sergio Leone, Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Andrei Tarkovsky, John Coltrane, Tim Berne, David Lynch, Dave Douglas, all kinds of maps, Charles Bukowski, my insane family, Tom Robbins, Jack DeJohnette, Paul Bley, Ground Zero, sushi, Dmitri Shostakovich, Julie Taymore, Todd Solondz, Ikue Mori, working a 9-5, Otomo Yoshihide, trying to learn Japanese, Kenzaburo Oe, Borah Bergman, frogs croaking during the night, Paul Lytton, the Ruins, Sophocles, raising insects, JRR Tolkien, Cantillon Geuze, Giacinto Scelsi, Black Sabbath, Dave Holland, Emperor, Captain Kirk beating the Kobayashi Maru, Iannis Xenakis, Marilyn Crispell, John Cage, William Parker, Tom Waits, Agusti Fernandez, being picked on as a kid, Miles Davis, Tom Rainey, Gyorgi Ligeti, Joe and Matt Maneri, mirrors, Barre Phillips, Conrad Baer, Takashi Miike, sounds of the city, Denman Maroney, Andrzej Zulawski, Plato, Brigit Riley, Johnny Cash, Sonny Rollins, Gerhard Richter, Alex Von Schlippenbach, Milton Nascimento, Peter Kowald, Sun Ra, Roscoe Mitchell, Jackson Pollock, Paul Motian, chasing dragonflies in the summer, Igor Stravinsky, Joanna Newsom, playing the euphonium for 7 years, Aki Takase, Matts Gustafsson, Ulver, chips and salsa, Paul Rutherford, John Butcher, Stanley Kubrick, soccer, Clint Eastwood, trying to play Go, Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders, Begotten, the theme to M*A*S*H (with lyrics), Blade Runner, hiking up mountains in Japan, Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, plant life, Harmony Korine, video games (especially any Zelda), Apocalypse Now, breezes, Planet of the Apes, not having a real ethnicity, Conan the Barbarian, old monster movies, Billy Madison, Takeshi Kitano, Todd Solondz, my high school calculus class, Star Wars, Lost in Translation, not knowing how to ride a bike, The Twilight Zone, The Office and Seinfeld, H.P. Lovecraft, Graham Lock, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Octavio Paz, canines and felines, Albert Camus, Robert Heinlein, Samuell Beckett, Lautreamont, pornography, Anton Chekov, William Faulkner, Charles Baudelaire, Frank Herbert, Aeschylus, ancient civilizations, Kobo Abe, Franz Kafka, Stefane Mallarme, Federico Garcia Lorca, Yukio Mishima, Tor Norretranders, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Hardy, six months on a cruise ship, Carlos Fuentes, Cannibal Corpse, Sam Rivers, the Bhagavad Gita, playing chess


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| | Record Label | Firehouse12, Creative Sources, ESPDisk, loyallabel | | Type of Label | Indie |
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