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hello!
Currently singing songs, playing bass for MKB ULTRA and Sheridan Riley's PEG and BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA (improv trio with Jack Endino), guitar for TOAST FANTASY and ASTROL WATERS and ARGAN BAND and SIX-SIDED CUBE and THE WALKING FACES, broadcasting reiki via amplification, telling fortunes by guitar.
Thursday May 10 2018
Beyond Captain Orca! w/ Mindbeams & the incredible BAD LUCK!!!
LoFi Gallery, Eastlake, Seattle
8pm, 21+
Saturday May 12 2018
Argan Band (Moroccanroll music) & many many others
Spirit Of Africa Festival, Seattle Center
Friday May 25 2018
Beyond Captain Orca! w/ Publish The Quest & the incredible MDOU MOCTAR!!!
Mdou Moctar is one of my favorite guitarists, based out of Niger & playing in the Tuareg style that's gained some popularity of late. He's best known for his tribute to/remake of "Purple Rain", called "Rain The Color Blue With A Little Red In It"... There's no word for purple in Tuareg. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!!!!
High Dive, Fremont (Center Of The Universe), Seattle
8pm, 21+
I've got a new EP out, called TRIO. It's three songs, & features Sheridan Riley on the drums. Ian McKagan recorded the basic tracks, I spent some time overdubbing & finishing up. You can listen now:
The first eight (8) live albums from BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA!
(improv trio with Jack Endino guitar, Patrick Lenon drums, 5-Track bass)
now downloadable from the amazing bandcamp. Here's one to grow on:
BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA! ... 2017-01-13 ... Friday The 13th @ Slim's
MKB ULTRA opening for Giants In The Trees:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kexp/sets/72157680445884363
or simply stream:
This here is music to SLEARP to:
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.
it's called "Electrostagmalites & Leafy Transmissions".
you can listen to it here
