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Chan/Smith/Walter at Bandcamp
2013 Bug Incision release of Weasel Walter/Damon Smith/Charity Chan
"Formed in 2006 in Oakland California, this improving trio came
together out of a love for randomness, noisy sounds, lyric brutality,
and adventure eating. This album is dedicated to our 1510 evening in
2007 that features various forms of grilled octopi and improvised
music."
Performers:
Charity Chan (piano, objects)
Damon Smith (double bass)
Weasel Walter (drums)
Recorded at: 1510 8th street, Oakland CA, 2007
Mixed and mastered: Caribou Sonore, 2012
Includes immediate download of 6-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. Buy This CD
ug53 SANDY EWEN/DAMON SMITH/WEASEL WALTER CD
$15.00 postage
paypal = damon@balancepointacousitcs.com
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Nate Wooley/Scott R. Looney/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter "Scowl" CD ug49 Edition of 300 real cds.
Send $10pp (USA) or $15 (outside the US) by paypal to Damon@balancepointacoustics.com if you would like a copy.
hear/download a free preview of this release at: http://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/track/carps-daemon (PLAY LOUD!)
A powerful, articulate improvised music release by this meeting of new generation West and East Coast American musicians. This quartet explores the outer limits of technique and abstraction while delivering serious impact. Scowl consists of more than 50 minutes of free improvised music by a quartet featuring trumpeter Nate Wooley, pianist Scott R. Looney, bassist Damon Smith and drummer Weasel Walter. The ensemble's music is a distinct sum total of four unique perspectives, drawing on a a wide palette of musical possibilities, dynamics and timbres. The music is fast, clearly delineated, compact and well-orchestrated, drawing from the sound vocabularies of 20th and 21st Century New Music forms. The recording is excellent and is best heard at robust volume on stereo speakers, just like in the good old days of high-fidelity. For fans of Bill Dixon, Evan Parker and Mats Gustafsson . . . Buy This CD
Fan The Hammer:
Henry Kaiser - electric and acoustic guitars, talking
Damon Smith - double bass, 6 string electric upright, 'cello, acoustic bass guitar, talking
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The Henry Kaiser / Damon Smith duo has been active for well over a decade. These recordings span around 7 or 8 years. At this time it is a digital only release.
The cover is a collaborative ipod/iphone drawing by Raymie Iadevaia & Damon SmithRaymie Iadevaia Buy This CD 
Featuring Cecil Taylor alumni Marco Eneidi (alto), Marc Edwards (drums), Lisle Ellis (bass), Elliott Levin (tenor), Sun Ra Arkestra legend Marshall Allen (alto), bassist Damon Smith and manic Austrian reedist Mario Rechtern, Firestorm is a delerious concoction of new energy music that pushes beyond the stratosphere of sound!
You can send a paypal for $15 pp to damon@balancepointacoustics.com If you would like one.
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A few copies of "Healing Force" are available
You can send a paypal for $15 pp to damon@balancepointacoustics.com If you would like one.
Vinny Golia-reeds
Aurora Josephson-voice
Henry Kaiser-guitar
Mike Keneally-piano, guitar and voice
Joe Morris-guitar and double bass
Damon Smith-double bass
Weasel Walter-drums
Seven major figures from the art-punk, free-jazz, brutal prog, improvisational and modern jazz world come together for a ROCKING tribute to the unfairly ignored, misunderstood and vilified late period works of Albert Ayler.
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Limited copies of the "Noisy People" dvd are available here. It is a Film by Tim Perkis featuing Damon Smith and other Bay Area Musicians. Includes footage of Gratkowski/Bryerton/Smith and Wolfgang Fuchs' Six Fuchs Project.
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Improvised music form Oakland and Tel Aviv from the Jerusalem based Kadima Label.
Aurora Josephson - voice
Ariel Shibolet - soprano saxophone
Jen Baker - trombone
Scott R. Looney - piano
Damon Smith - double bass Buy This CD
"Ghetto Caylpso" Peter Kowald/Marco Eneidi/Damon Smith/Spirit out now on NOTTWO records. Out of stock. Buy This CD
New from Nuscope Records: Biggi Vinkeloe, alto saxophone, flute; Damon Smith, double-bass; Kjell Nordeson, drums, vibraphone Buy This CD
Forthcoming CD's
Fred Van Hove / Peter Jacquemyn / Damon Smith
BPA -2 "Burns Longer"
Digital ReleaseSandy Ewen / Damon Smith
BPA -1 "Background Information"
Digital Release
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"Sextessense: A Tribute to John Stevens & SME "
Players: JOHN BUTCHER/HENRY KAISER/AARON BENNETT/DANIELLE DEGRUTTOLA/DAMON
Reviewed by: Bruce Galanter
JOHN BUTCHER/HENRY KAISER/AARON BENNETT/DANIELLE DEGRUTTOLA/DAMON
SMITH/JEROME BRYERTON - Sextessense: A Tribute to John Stevens & SME
[Spontaneous Music Ensemble] (Balance Point Acoustics 11; USA) Featuring Henry
Kaiser on guitar, John Butcher & Aaron Bennet on saxes, Danielle
DeGruttola on cello, Damon Smith on acoustic bass and Jerome Bryerton on
drums, plus Kurt Newman on guitar on one track. John Stevens is perhaps the
most influential and most beloved of all British modern "jazz"
drummers, he certainly cast a large shadow on the entire European avant/jazz
scene since his the mid-sixties. As a leader or co-leader of so many
diverse and influential ensembles, Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME), an
original member of Company, Amalgam, Detail and John Steven's Away, his
playing embraced so many different streams, free/jazz, Ornette-like
grooves, fusion, South African and rock-like groove-space. He played in duos
and trios with Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Frode Gjerstad, John Butcher
and Gary Smith. He worked with musicians as diverse as Bobby Bradford,
Dudu Pukwana, Alan Holdsworth, Julie Tippetts and John Martyn.
So, it makes perfect sense that a musicians like Henry Kaiser,
John Butcher and Damon Smith, would want to do a tribute to this great
man, spirit, teacher, drummer and multi-bandleader. Much of Stevens'
best work was done with the legendary SME, which le led for nearly thirty
years (1967-1994), with changing personnel on almost every recording.
Although SME were known as a "free" ensemble, it is Steven's direction
that made them so cohesive and often so magical. I get the feeling that
the same vision or direction was used to guide this extraordinary
session. Henry has chosen some like-minded players here and although I am
unfamiliar with Mr. Bryerton, Mr. Bennet & Mr. Newman, everyone fits just
right into the often nimble, yet focused world of directed improv. Most
carefully recorded so that one can swim within sea of rich details.
This is one of the finest improv dates I've heard in recent memory, you
get the feeling that there is some close listening and responding going
on here. Nice to hear from the wonderful cellist Danielle DeGruttola,
whose playing can only be heard on a few other discs with Henry. An
extraordinary session on all accounts. - BLG | |
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