badmonk

SEEKING

Bass Guitar, Other Percussion, Trumpet, Saxophone, Keyboard, Flute, Other, Upright bass, Cello, Electronic Music.

ABOUT

A couple of pro musicians getting back together after a long break and forming a new original creative instrumental ensemble. The Music is experimental in spirit and rooted in Jazz, Avante-garde, 60's/70's Funk and Psychedelic, Latin, and Americana, and has a broad eclectic range of sounds from old-skool grooves to Twin Peaks-like twang and echo to complex dissonant harmonies and experimental anti-form/anti-structure sound. The project's focus is on creating a new music, live performance, unique compositions, and art.

We're looking for a bass player, keyboard player, and others to add to the fledgling project, which includes a great drummer and a Berklee grad guitar player/composer. We have rehearsal/recording space. Open mindedness, rule breaking, creativity, and high risk tolerance is needed. Shoot us a message. Happy to connect and to see what shakes out.

bill at if dot io
7039095125

Screen name:: badmonk
Member since:: Jun 20 2017; Active over 1 month ago
Level of commitment:: Very Committed
Years together:: 40
Gigs played:: Over 100
Tend to practice:: More than 3 times per week
Available to gig:: 1 night a week
Age:: 57 years

Influences

The term "Influences" seems to imply that's what your music is trying to sound like. Here, that's simply not the case. The artists, sounds, and attitudes below are some what inspires the music we create.

Sun Ra, Don Glen Vliet aka "Captain Beefheart", Grant Green, The Meters, Orson Welles, Miles, Monk, Jim Jarmusch, Trane, Iggy Pop, Jobim, Tom Waits, War, Friedrich Nietzsche, Willie West, Hunter Thompson, Lou Reed, garbage trucks, Link Wray, Leonard Cohen, Daniel Johnston, David Lynch, Patti Smith, X, Ornette Coleman, Bill Burroughs, chainsaws on metal, the homeless guy who plays trumpet, old payphones and barking dogs.