5-Track was born in Vermont in 1976. He skipped the 80s & didn’t stick his head up for water til 1992, when the air was momentarily clear. Lightning struck & he crawled back underground.

NEWS (posted May 9 2017):

The first six live albums from BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA!
(improv trio with Jack Endino guitar, Patrick Lenon drums, 5-Track bass)
now downloadable from bandcamp. Here's one to grow on:

BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA! ... 2017-01-13 ... Friday The 13th @ Slim's

Here’s some pix from May 6th, sold out show at Blue Moon,
MKB ULTRA opening for Giants In The Trees:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kexp/sets/72157680445884363

ASTROL WATERS just recorded a live set for KEXP’s Sonarchy Radio, helmed by Doug Haire at Jackstraw. We don’t know the airdate yet, but soon!
Astrol Waters first CD is here:

This here is music to SLEARP to:

(additional updates on tumblr http://5-track.tumblr.com)

upcoming:

Sunday May 21st 2017
MKB ULTRA with Senor Fin, Wild Powwers, DoNormaal
at the Bellevue Regional Library
1111 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
music starts at noon, we play at 2pm, all ages, free :)

BIOGRAFFITUM

The musician known as 5-Track has released a surprising array of music, in styles ranging from rock&roll to acoustic singer-songwriter to gnarly electric guitar noise, mellow freejazz & meditation music, & more. He has played twisted country-rock in Joshua Tree California with Amanda Jo Williams & Matthew O'Neill, sat in with Lauren Gurgiolo's Kierkegaard-&-Coleman-inspired Dialtones in a yurt in a field next to a swimming hole outside Austin Texas. He has collaborated with Seattle rock legends, improv-rocker John Leighton Beezer & engineer/guitarist Jack Endino.

Julian Cope: "5-Track appears intent on insinuating himself into our consciousnesses as a 21st century artist of the United States' next phase...delivering up to us a most necessary and much needed (in)articulate speech-of-the-heart whilst simultaneously providing spectacular picked accompaniment."

Matthew O'Neill: "If Thomas Pynchon had a roadhouse, 5-Track would be the resident artist."

Drew Denny, L.A. Record: "There should be an illustration of 5-Track next to the word 'guitarist' in the dictionary!"

D. M. Collins, L.A. Record: "Not since Marc Bolan has a flower child of this magnitude said, 'Fuck it, I'm going to take the shimmering diamond tears from beneath the eye of a unicorn and rip a hole in your ASS with it!'"

5-Track dwells in Seattle, where he guitars & basses with MKB ULTRA (rock&soul music), Beyond Captain Orca! (improv trio, Jack Endino lead guitar, Patrick Lenon drums), Peg (Sheridan Riley's pop-rock genius), Argan Band (Moroccanroll music), The Walking Faces (jamband duo), Astrol Waters (improv collective w/ Keenen Magik), his own 5-Track trio, &tc

5-Track teaches holistic music (focus on guitar & bass guitar), takes the occasional photograph, draws the occasional picture, remixes the occasional remix, cuts up newspaper articles & puts them back together in new & surprising ways. Sings the results. Investigates about musical reiki technology. Speaks for the trees.