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Tom Blancarte
Jazz / Experimental / Acoustic

"wildness"

New York, New York
United States

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Last Login:  7/25/2008
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   Tom Blancarte: General Info
Member Since1/12/2005
Band Websitetomblancarte.com
Band MembersTom Blancarte - bass

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

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

Torus
Drew Pitcher - alto sax
Alejandro Florez - guitar
Tom Blancarte - bass


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
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, ESP-Disk
Type of LabelIndie





   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 26 2008 8:00P
Storyship @ Monduna Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
Aug 6 2008 11:00P
The Perfect Man @ Black Betty Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Aug 7 2008 10:00P
Seabrook Power Plant @ The Stone New York, New York
Aug 18 2008 8:00P
Adam Caine Trio @ Spike Hill Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Aug 20 2008 8:00P
Peter Evans Quartet @ Barbes Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
Aug 21 2008 8:00P
The Perfect Man New Haven, Connecticut
Aug 26 2008 9:00P
Liquid Surprise @ Zebulon (featuring K. Shea, A. Drury & B. Osborne on drums) Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Sep 13 2008 9:00P
Storyship @ Goodbye Blue Monday Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
Sep 22 2008 8:00P
with Peter Evans, Paul Flaherty, Darius Jones, Weasel Walter & Marc Edwards New York, New York
Oct 2 2008 8:00P
Jeremiah Cymerman’s Scorpio Rising @ The Stone New York, New York
Oct 12 2008 8:00P
Duo w Ron Stabinsky, + Peter Evans/Nate Wooley Duo Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Oct 16 2008 8:00P
Sparks East Coast Tour with Jeremiah Cymerman Solo - venues & dates TBA San Francisco, California
Nov 1 2008 8:00P
Europe in November - bands and shows TBA Berlin
May 1 2009 8:00P
Peter Evans Quartet @ Ulrichsberg Festival Ulrichsberg
Aug 5 2009 8:00P
Peter Evans Quartet @ Jazz em Agosto Festival Lisbon

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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, 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.



Sometimes, I feel like this:



   Tom Blancarte's Friend Space (Top 28)
Tom Blancarte has 701 friends.
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 Storyship 


 Who Put The Bad Mouth On Me 


 Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen 


 Russell 


 Peter Evans 


 Drew 


 Alejandro 


 Justin Svrcek 


 Ricardo Gallo 


 Sam Kulik 


 Zach 


 Amy 


 Mitch 


 brandon seabrook 


 Nikki 


 jr 


 gymnasium 


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 Andrew Drury 


 Jeremiah Cymerman 


 Kevin Shea 


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 Adam Caine 


 adrian 


 Amie Weiss 


 Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone 





Tom Blancarte's Friends Comments
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Erin Costelo





Jul 20 2008 10:48 AM

awww such a cute photo!
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen





Jul 13 2008 1:53 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 6:19 AM

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 5:27 AM

Solar Forge is killer!
Thor's Rubber Hammer





Jun 17 2008 1:00 PM

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Photobucket
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen





Jun 16 2008 3:00 AM

bookcookfoodslow.....

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





Jun 15 2008 4:23 AM

..
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 5 2008 5:52 PM

really nice new photos.
d'incise





May 16 2008 7:36 PM

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 4:08 AM

hey tom!

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

niklas
Nikki





May 5 2008 6:41 PM

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 7:21 AM

thanks for the add!
Tore Bahnson





Apr 22 2008 11:06 PM

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





Apr 10 2008 12:27 AM

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
d'incise





Mar 28 2008 5:42 PM

♪ Erhan Basol ♪





Mar 10 2008 5:20 PM

Thanks for the add !!
adrian





Mar 3 2008 8:45 AM

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
Russell Holland





Feb 24 2008 6:26 AM

What's this?
MaryStella





Feb 18 2008 5:27 PM

http://www.theriverstreetalehouse.com/

link to the river st. ale house if you interested next time your in the area.
Judith Berkson





Feb 8 2008 5:53 PM

Tommy tom tom
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg