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... serve the song. |
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| Location: | Austin, Texas |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Oct 25, 2007 (301 days back) |
About Me |
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drumset: Austin, Los Angeles, NYC; including - noisetet, the Bonedaddys, Kevin O'Neal (Busboys, Navigator), Native Tongue, (a cup of fine coffee with) Syd Straw, Dave Alvin, Don Falzone, bluesman Osee Anderson; Grammy Award winners Los Super 7 (southwest live shows: Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, Cesar Rosas, David Hidalgo, Joe Ely, Rick Trevino, et al.), James McMurtry, Eric Johnson (w/Pressure), Rick Trevino, Chris Duarte, Joel Guzman/Sarah Fox/Aztex, Joe Ely, Jonathan Clay, Mason Ruffner, Papa Mali, The Killer Bees (R.I.P. Michael); Alex Coke, Michael Haaga, Doug Hall Trio, David Webb Trio, Cruel 13 (the late John Campbell's band: Mark Grandfield, Zonder Kennedy, Jimmy Pettit), Brian Groder, Jon Paris, Michael Parrish; Charlie Giordano, Susie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell; Zonder Kennedy (again!); UNT Jazz Lab Bands, Percussion Ensembles, Orchestral Ensembles; (various jingles, film work; demo reel available) producer: including, noisetet (obscure) ('03); "hutch" (Lewis Hutcheson, '04); various artists: Deadwood Music (spec., for the hbo series, '06); noisetet II (w/an '07 release); Jonathan Clay's "Back to Good" (w/Tim Gerron); pending documentary/travel soundtrack pkg. ('07); my own debut CD/vinyl as a leader (including several tracks available on this site, w/a release date sometime in 2007); also see: myspace.com/nowerks, for a wide sampling of our album productions, studio description and musician roster. teacher: (drumset, mallets/vibraphone, percussion)... thanks to Tommy Robertson, owner of Fibes Drums and Tommy's Drum Shop; and my friend, Frosty Smith, truly a master musician... that happens to play the drums. "When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear." art credits: top, Hartley's "untitled monster '05"; 1st painting, Franz Kline's "Torches Mauve";"ylayali" and 2nd painting, Willem De Kooning's "tree naples"; "haruki's groove", uncredited 19th century postcard; "utrecht breakdown", Franz Kline's "Crow Dancer"; "still life with blue center", 3rd painting, Willem De Kooning's "Bolton Landing"; below, Franz Kline's '"Requiem". |
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Music:Member Since: 11/30/2006Band Website: (under construction, i.e., eventually...) Band Members: All music - except Aztex, "Why Don't You Love Me?", and Fela's, "Zombie", performed w/permission by the Bonedaddys (see creds. in blog) - was recorded and mixed by Tim Gerron, produced and mixed by Brian Lee Sebastian (at Music Lab, Austin,TX.), and mastered by Allan Tucker at Foothill Digital, NYC. Compositions/improvisations were designed by Brian Lee Sebastian, with the exception of "still life with blue center" and "will gone iron" (by B. Sebastian/D. Silverman/N-O Werks); and "Blue Jay Way" (by G. Harrison, c. 1967; arranged by B. Sebastian and Chris Duarte). All music (other than "Blue Jay Way") copyright 2003-2007 by Brian Lee Sebastian/N-O Werks (all improvisers share in songwriting); with Tim Gerron, Donny Silverman, and featuring Malcolm Welbourne, Rick G. Nelson lll, and an incredible cast of friends, artists and ne'er-do-wells. Brian Lee Sebastian: producer (all trks.), drumset, drum machine, left drums ("still life...", "will gone iron"), gongs, percussion, Chinese toms Donny Silverman: circuit-bent electronics, samples, flute and saxophone, bass clarinet, tattoos Tim Gerron: engineer, sound design, co-production, laser beam Malcolm "Papa Mali" Welbourne: voodoo-caster guitar, mudslide guitar, grease & magic guitar ("summer in oslo", "still life with blue center") Rick G. Nelson lll: violin, viola, cello, (upright bass: "utrecht breakdown"), co-writer "ylayali", "utrecht breakdown"; and carpentry (featuring) Brian Groder: winged-trumpet ("haruki's groove")... Doug Hall: keyboards/Fender Rhodes ("summer in oslo"), inspiration... William Landin: electric-Houdini bass... David Phelps: nerve guitar, plastic Coke-bottle-slide guitar... Bruce Salmon: non-idiomatic keyboard, samples, life... Aaryn Russell: skronk clarinet/poignant clarinet; elec. bass "will gone iron"; and whatever else he wants to play... Landis Armstrong: Morricone-guitar ("Blue Jay Way")... Darin Layne: groove/lyrical guitar ("haruki's groove")... Chris Duarte: out-blue melody guitar ("Blue Jay Way")... Drew Phelps: acoustic/arco bass ("still life with blue center")... Steve Samuel: percussion ("still life with blue center")... Michael Hale: right drums ("still life with blue center", "will gone iron") Influences: (the short list:) the Blues - the human condition is all one sort of blues or another. (the long list:) I saw no way around this... Afro-beat, Rashied Ali, Tony Allen, Laurie Anderson, Louis Armstrong, David Axelrod, Albert Ayler, Bacharach, Derek Bailey, Carlton Barrett, Béla Bartók, The Beatles, Benny Benjamin, Han Bennink, Alban Berg, Steve Berlin, Ed Blackwell, Black Sabbath, Carla Bley, Paul Bley, John Bonham, Bowie, Peter Broetzmann, James Brown, the Buckleys, Burning Spear, Kate Bush, John Cage, John Cale, Can, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Bid Sid Catlett, Leonard Cohen, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Stewart Copeland, Henry Cow, cut and paste, Andrew Cyrille, Miles Davis, Manu Dibango, Baby Dodds, Eric Dolphy, Tom Dowd, Dvorák, Eno, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Fela, Luc Ferarri, field recordings, Flaming Lips, found objects, John French (aka Drumbo), Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake, Frosty, the Fugs, Fushitsusha, Gadd, Serge Gainsbourg, Gang of Four, David Garabaldi, Lowell George, Phillip Glass, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gong, gongs, Jim Gordon, gratings, Al Green, Grizzly, Trilok Grutu, Guru Guru, Pepe Habichuela, Hadaka no Rallizes, Keiji Haino, Beaver Harris, Jon Hassell, Hatfield and the North, Richie Hayward, Levon Helm, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Henry, Billie Holiday, Ustad Zakir Hussein, Charles Ives, Al Jackson jr., Blind Willie Johnson - "God Don't Ever Change", Robert Johnson/Son House/Charlie Patton, Elvin Jones, Papa Jo Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, Jim Keltner, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Carole King, King Crimson, King Tubby, Gene Krupa, Steve Lacy, Daniel Lanois, John Lennon, Ligeti, Love, MC5, Bob Marley, George Martin, the Meters, Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Mitch Mitchell, Zig Modeliste, Mogwai, Louis Moholo, Ikue Mori, Ennio Morricone, Paul Motian, Sunny Murray, My Bloody Valentine, Sandy Nelson, New Orleans, New York Art Quartet, No Neck Blues Band, Nurse With Wound, Pauline Oliveros, Jim O'Rourke, Kid Ory, Augustus Pablo, Earl Palmer, Harry Partch, Annette Peacock, Tom Petty, prison songs, the Residents, Ringo, Sigur Rós, Rick Rubin, rust, Santa, Pierre Schaeffer, Panditji Ravi Shankar, Schönberg, Archie Shepp, Zutty Singleton, Soft Machine, Sonic Youth, Phil Spector, Murray Spivak, Igor Stravinsky, Sun Ra, David Sylvain, Tabla Beat Science, Talking Heads, the Thing, Art Tripp (aka Ed Marimba), James Blood Ulmer, Edgar Varèse, Caetano Veloso, Don Van Vliet, the Wainwrights, Tom Waits, Muddy Waters, Ben Webster, Chick Webb, Jack White, the Who, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, Hank Williams, Robert Arthur Williams, Bill Withers, Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Wonder, work songs, Brian Wilson, Robert Wyatt, Xenakis, XTC, Otomo Yoshihide, LaMonte Young, Neil Young, Lester Young: Prez, Townes Van Zandt, Frank Zappa, Zeppelin, John Zorn... the abstract expressionists: the New York School, Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Stephen Biko, Black Panther Party, Simón Bolivar, Paul Bowles, Marlon Brando, Brassai, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, César Chávez, William Sloane Coffin, Dada, Dali, Dostoevsky, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Fellini, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fluxus, Futurism, Mahatma Gandhi, Gaugin, Geronimo, Allen Ginsberg, Greek mythology/philosophy, Che Guevara, Knut Hamsun, Harmolodics, Homer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Magic Johnson, James Joyce, Frida Kahlo, Jack Kerouac, Albert Kotin, Kierkegaard, Jack Kirby, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Utagawa Kuniyoshi II, Akira Kurosawa, Leonardo, Sergio Leone, Jack Levine, Sophia Loren, H.P. Lovecraft, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Karl Marx, Russell Means & A.I.M., Arthur Miller, Frank Miller, Robert Motherwell, Haruki Murakami, Nietzsche, Anais Nin, Ken Nordine, Norse mythology, Rosa Parks, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Peckinpaugh, Picasso, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Proust, Pythagoras, Robert Rauschenberg, the Recalcitrant Oblivionists (;-), Rimbaud, Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, Mark Rothko, poet Raúl R. Salinas, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Anne Sexton, the Silver Surfer, Socrates - Plato - Aristotle, John Steinbeck, Andrei Tarkovsky, Leon Theramin, pioneer abstract expressionist Alma Thomas, Thor, Thoreau, Toshiro Mifune, John Trudell, Alan Watts God, all of his/her names. Christ. the Prophets. Siddhartha Gautama - the Buddha. The Bhagavad Gita... the path. the Black Ship... the Sebastians, Pils and Jensens... Michelle, Hartley, Liam, Mandy... John Fitz.: North Dallas 40+1. Edgar Varèse: "God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things." Pythagoras: "There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres." Ornette Coleman: "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was onto something." Igor Stravinsky: "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it." Franz Kline: "You instinctively like what you can't do." Anne Sexton: "Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard." Sounds Like: ... improvisation. homage. sabotage. Record Label: N-O Werks Type of Label: None |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Alternative / Experimental / Soul) |
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do/don't ask me about.... (faintly politico, yawn) |
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| do ask me about: art, but not my own... myspace friendship and hell's own 'add' button... the best slice 'o' pizza in nyc... my friends... okay, the real birthplaces of all that is america... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:33:00 PST |
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words about music... (other than my own) |
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| _John Lennon: "You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."_Daniel Albright on Schopenha... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:49:00 PST |
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need drums? rhythm section?... |
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| ... i have some - and many bass players that i work regularly with... and frosty and i are dying to do a 2-drummer thing with someone.feel free to drop me a line if you're in need of drums/percu... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:25:00 PST |
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sp; - commentaire en français, ou ... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:54:00 PST |
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a few thoughts on drumming... (for my students) |
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| 1. Resist becoming "married" to a drum part for a given song. Tempting, isn't it. All those practice room hours, thinking you've come up with the perfect part for a song. And then you take your... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:47:00 PST |
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the Bonedaddys: Felas, |
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| ... blast from the past: Fela's Zombie" (c. 1977, Fela Anikulapo Kuti; recorded with permission) from the Bonedaddys' Worldbeatniks; Chameleon/Capitol, 1990. Recorded @ Groovemasters, Santa Monica, Ca... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:28:00 PST |
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Aztex: 'Why Don't You Love Me... |
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| ... in response to requests for some groove playing, "Why Don't You Love Me?" from Aztex's Short Stories on Hightone Records. _ Produced by Steve Berlin_ engineered and mastered by Dave McNair_ Reco... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:12:00 PST |
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new/old tune up: |
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| .... hear "happy hour", replete with: annoyingly cool background din; david phelp's insane subterranean guitar riffing; aaryn russell's string-boiled electric bass; tim gerron's inspired mixing; donny... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:13:00 PST |
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R.I.P. Max Roach: 8.16.07 - A Great Man Passes... |
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| A true master of American music and an important voice for social change has passed. The morning of Wednesday, August 16 marks the death of drummer Max Roach. He passed peacefully in his sleep.&nbs... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:07:00 PST |
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ATTENTION: serial "friend" adders... |
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| ... if you are a band or other commercial enterprise seeking to artificially inflate your "fan"/"friend" base, please do not send me a friend request. further, i will delete irrelevant profiles - and ... Posted by brian lee sebastian on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:48:00 PST |
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Stop The War, HONOR THE EARTH, Franz Kline, ORNETTE COLEMAN, Captain Beefheart, Al Jackson Jr, Ennio Morricone, Willem de Kooning, Annette Peacock, Rashied Ali, Paul Motian, Charles Bukowski, Lester Young, James Black, Sergio Leone, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael J. Smith, n-o werks, noisetet, AUGUSTUS PABLO, Michelle, eric, ossified madness, Donny, Nancy Magarill, Alex Coke, Tim Gerron Productions, John Hawkes, Doyle Bramhall, Great Big Experiment, Jeanette Sollén, Brannen, alsican, Dr. Still, TONY ALLEN, Aaryn Russell, Giuliana Gironi, Rick G Nelson III, Moogly, Tea Hodzic, Ever Orchid, (H+) M.S.G., Mary Henderson, pierre, Dave Dark and the Sharks, Juan, Semiotext, Gordon Fraser, Clunk, Nicklas Brännström - Bass Artist, Yoann Sanson, Rich Segura and the Atomic Blues Band, ethan, Nefarious Bovine Radio, Brentley Gore, Vinnie Ambrosone, TRANSPARENCE, THE HIGH KINGS OF BLUE, Michael Zentner
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