Seabrook Power Plant
Brandon Seabrook - banjo & guitar
Jared Seabrook - drums
Tom Blancarte - bass
Who Put The Bad Mouth On Me
Dave Smith - trombone
Lathan Hardy - tenor sax
Will Jones - baritone sax
Nick Chapman - analog synth
Tom Blancarte - bass
Conor Elmes - drums
Self-titled debut CD-R available on my SNOCAP page
Storyship
Zach Landreneau - guitars, banjo, vocals, harmonium, etc.
Russell Holland - guitars, banjo, harmonium, percussion, etc.
Drew Pitcher - harmonica, clarinet, bass clarinet, guitars, banjo, etc.
Tom Blancarte - bass, guitar
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
Tom Blancarte - bass
and others
Piano Trio
Carol Liebowitz - piano
Tom Blancarte - bass
Brian Osborne - drums
Liquid Surprise
Tom Blancarte - bass
Kevin Shea - drums
Andrew Drury - drums
Brian Osborne - 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
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, Dave Smith’s Who Put The Bad Mouth On Me, the trio Totem with guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil and drummer Andrew Drury and the Peter Evans Quartet, featuring Brandon Seabrook and Kevin Shea.
.. 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
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.
dear Tom I read that Sparks (Tom B - Peter Evans) will issue one cd on Creative Sources . I look forward hearing to it. (Upright ?). I hope that you got our cd ! cheers Jean Michel Van Schouwburg of Sureau trio
Dang son. you are keeping busy. you know that is thing about myspace. everyone seems to be busy busy busy. good to see you are traveling as well. NW is open anytime too....adrian
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