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.

Currently singing songs, wrapping audients in octarine cloud, broadcasting reiki via amplification, telling fortunes by guitar, & bass player for hire. Love ya!

NEWS (updated August 22nd 2017):

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

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 on Sonarchy radio broadcasted back on July 31st. You can right-click download it here: http://media.kexp.org/podcasts/sonarchy/media/2017-07-27_sonarchy_07-30-17_astrol_waters.mp3
or simply stream:

This here is music to SLEARP to:

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

upcoming:

Sunday October 8th 2017
MKB ULTRAlite (semi-unplugged version) at The Royal Room
w/ Tom Price Desert Classic, Mike Giacolino, Low Bar Ramblers
benefit for Seattle musicians' access to sustainable healthcare
5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118 ... $15

Friday November 17th 2017
TOAST FANTASY (new phase of Neon Brown)
private party, east side

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.