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Tom Blancarte
Jazz / Experimental / Acoustic

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New York, New York
United States

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Member Since1/12/2005
Band Websitewww.tomblancarte.com
Band MembersTom 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
InfluencesEvan 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 LabelFirehouse12, Creative Sources, ESPDisk, loyallabel
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 19 2009 8:00P
Quartet with Alejandro Florez, Dan Blake & Andrew Drury @ Douglass Street Music Collective Brooklyn, New York
Jul 26 2009 8:00P
Adam Caine Trio @ Brecht Forum New York City, New York
Jul 29 2009 9:00P
Peter Evans 4tet @ Zebulon New York, New York
Aug 8 2009 8:00P
Peter Evans Quartet @ Jazz em Agosto Festival Lisbon
Aug 11 2009 8:00P
Louise D.E. Jensen, Brandon Seabrook, Kevin Shea @ Dakar Brooklyn, New York
Aug 14 2009 8:00P
Sweet Banditry @ Ryan Snow’s Basement Series Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
Aug 14 2009 8:00P
Adam Caine Trio @ Ryan Snow’s Basement Series Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Sep 17 2009 8:00P
Totem @ ZXZW Festival (tentative) Tilburg
Nov 20 2009 8:00P
Peter Evans 4tet Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 21 2009 8:00P
Solos & Duos with Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen @ St. Marks Church Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Nov 22 2009 8:00P
Solos & Duos with Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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   About Tom Blancarte
Tom Blancarte is a bassist, improvisor and composer living and working in New York City. He has performed his music throughout the United States and Europe. His primary focus is on improvised music and finding new roles for the bass in a variety of musical contexts. He is a busy performer in a variety of ensembles in the New York area, his most active groups being the hyperactive duo Sparks with trumpeter Peter Evans, Brandon Seabrook's Seabrook Power Plant, the trio Totem with guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil and drummer Andrew Drury and the Peter Evans Quartet, featuring pianist Ricardo Gallo and Kevin Shea.



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Tom Blancarte has 809 friends.
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 Spärks 


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 Storyship 


 Russell 


 Peter Evans 


 Drew 


 Alejandro 


 Ricardo Gallo 


 Sam Kulik 


 Zach 


 Dave Smith/The Perfect Man 


 Amy 


 Mitch 


 brandon seabrook 


 Nikki 


 Bruce Eisenbeil 


 Andrew Drury 


 Jeremiah Cymerman 


 Kevin Shea 


 okkyung lee 


 Adam Caine 


 adrian 


 Danielle 


 Dan Peck 


 The Dan Blake Party 


 Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone 


 Jared Seabrook 


 MoHa! 


 RateBeer.com 


 Lagunitas Brewing 


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Tom Blancarte's Friends Comments
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rita zucchini





Jul 13 2009 11:44 AM

GRAZIE PER L'AMICIZIA, UNA BUONA ESTATE CON TANTA MUSICA, RITA
Heat Retention Records





Apr 12 2009 7:11 PM

Hernani Faustino





Mar 27 2009 11:10 PM

Wow!!!!
See you in lisbon.
Heat Retention Records





Mar 2 2009 9:40 PM

MOE





Jan 29 2009 7:22 PM

Hey man!
Good to see you. Hope you an Louise are doing good togheter in NY!
Kevin Shea





Jan 11 2009 9:26 AM

okkyung lee





Jan 9 2009 3:35 AM

you look like brandon in that new picture...
Albrecht Maurer





Nov 28 2008 3:33 PM

Hi Tom, I hoped we could meet, and play a little gig during Your stay in Berlin, finally I was to busy by myself. I hope You have a great time and some nice gigs, too.
Best of luck, Albrecht
The Little





Oct 30 2008 4:02 AM

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Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen





Oct 16 2008 9:06 AM

du må tro på at det bliver forår... og husk kaffen...

godmorgen.... ville ønske du var her....
Southern Kitchen





Sep 22 2008 11:33 PM

What up man, how's it going. Sorry I haven't been in touch.. Love to grab some drinks before I'm a married man. Holla at your boy..
Seiki





Sep 24 2008 12:09 AM

..
Erin Costelo





Jul 20 2008 5:48 PM

awww such a cute photo!
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen





Jul 13 2008 8:53 PM

Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert
( page 38, Dune, Frank Herbert )

You know that book, smile...???
Marjolaine Charbin & J-M Van Schouwburg





Jul 13 2008 1:19 PM

Hello Tom , got the Spärks Cd from Ernesto !! Killer one... which bass is on it ? The upright ??

all best from Waterloo from J-M the singer
Gary Rouzer





Jul 12 2008 12:27 PM

Solar Forge is killer!
Thor's Rubber Hammer





Jun 17 2008 8:00 PM

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Photobucket
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen





Jun 16 2008 10:00 AM

bookcookfoodslow.....

............ soon
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen





Jun 15 2008 11:23 AM

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SLOWFOODCOOKBOOK heute abend um 20uhr im cenario!(tiefer graben 22 1010 wien)
Louise D.E. Jensen - saxophon klarinette, querflöte
Matthias Pichler - kontrabass
Andreas Pichler schlagzeug
feat.
Michael Tiefenbacher-klavier, electronics
MaryStella





Jun 6 2008 12:52 AM

really nice new photos.
d'incise





May 17 2008 2:36 AM

hope to ear you again in Geneva soon...


here are my two new albums freely available.
(click on the covers to download the full records in a .zip)

d'incise - Les Restes du Festin

electronica album on TEST TUBE netlabel

DIATRIBES with DRAGOS TARA and PIERO SK - l'instant d'après

freejazz album on INSUBORDINATIONS netlabel & MOREMARS cdr-label

music under CC by-nc-nd, copy & share it, thanks
Illoyal





May 14 2008 11:08 AM

hey tom!

thansk for the add....your performance in moers was amazing!!!! skills!

niklas
Nikki





May 6 2008 1:41 AM

Too Eager!!!!! ha!
Also remembered as:
Tom strikes out against a backdrop of Drew's romantic harmonica stylings and random (and most likely dumb) chicks end their night immediately.
An unsuspecting couple gets confused.
29.
minga musica!





Apr 29 2008 2:21 PM

thanks for the add!
Tore Bahnson





Apr 23 2008 6:06 AM

Hi Tom,
thanks for the ad and the great music you create!
All the best
-Tore
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