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Featured CD:
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 
Firestorm is an intense and musically assaultive release of killer, balls-out free jazz that will appeal to those who long for the most bombasic works of Broetzmann, Ayler, Takayanagi and Cecil Taylor! This release reveals many shades of intensity and mood while remaining frenzied and inventive at all times. Featuring 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!
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A few copies of "Healing Force" are available
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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. These late period songs have always seemed to me like they may have been some of the most personally spritually resonant for Ayler, but the musicians and the culture of the late 1960s were possibly not able to successfully translate and perform his concept of spirituality, free jazz, boogaloo, nursery rhythms, marching bands, blues and r'n'b, and certainly the free-jazz following public was not ready to accept it. Now, 40 years and many stylistic mash-ups later, perhaps these works can be better enjoyed.
“Albert Ayler's later works (Love Cry, New Grass and Music is the Healing Force of the Universe) seem to be generally reviled. Through meditations, dreams, and visions, the players on this project were given the message to once again attempt to send the people of earth a message of love, peace, and spiritual understanding. We selected a representative set of tunes for this material and essentially let it play itself through us. We hope you will be as surprised as we still are by the results of this invocational experiment. We hope you will like this record.”
- Henry Kaiser, producer and guitarist
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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
BPA 013 "Pepper Spray" Ariel Shibolet/Jen Baker/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton Bertram Turetzky/Damon Smith
ThoughtBeetle
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 Bpaltd404 - Where Endless Meets disappearing
Henry Kaiser
New solo guitar album by Henry Kaiser. It features beautifully played improvisations. Henry Kaiser is in top form and playing better than ever.
A few copies are available now. You can send a paypal for $15 pp to damon@balancepointacoustics.com If you would like one.
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 bpaltd303 - Zen Kaiju
Henry Kaiser/Kiku day
Duo improvisations for Shakuhachi and Guitar recorded in 2006 at Fantasy studios.
A few copies are available now. You can send a paypal for $15 pp to damon@balancepointacoustics.com If you would like one. |
 bpaltd202 - Domo Arigato Derek Sensei
Henry Kaiser + Derek Bailey and many others
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 bpaldt9999 - Donations for free downloads
Free file sharing
File sharing is part of reality now. If you enjoyed any BPA releases you have downloaded for free consider sending a bit of $$ by paypal to damon@balancepointacoustics.com
This will help continue to make recordings available.
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 bpaldt000 - Solo Box
Damon Smith
Contents of Box:
1 Data cdr containing various solo works in mp3 format and
1 Video work by Damon Smith in mp4 format.
Various, photos and works on paper and canvas
by Damon Smith
Unique edition
$40 pp by paypal to damon@balancepointacoustics.com
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 BPA 101 - Thoughtbeetle
Bertram Turetzky/Damon Smith
Physical CDs are OOP, it is available still at Emusic, iTunes and many other sites digitally.
Bertram Turetzky - double bass
Damon Smith - double bass
Recorded Sunday, Nov 11 2007 1510 8th St Performance Space
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Scott R. Looney
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 bpa 100 - Mimetic Holds
Frank Gratkowsk/Scott R. Looney/Damon Smith/Kjell Nordeson
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Frank Gratkowski - clarinet, alto saxophone
Scott R. Looney - piano
Damon Smith - double bass
Kjell Nordeson - percussion
Total Time - 67:51
Tracks 1-5 recorded live in Santa Cruz 10/10/2004 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Track 6 Recorded 10/9/2004 live at 1510 8th St Performance Space Oakland
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 bpa 014 - Yclept
Birgit Ulher/Ariel Shibolet/Damon Smith + Tanaka
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Birgit Ulher, trumpet, radio, mutes, speaker
Ariel Shibolet - soprano sax
Adi Snir - tenor & soprano sax
Roni Brenner - guitar
Michel Mayer - guitar
Damon Smith - double bass, laptop
Ofer Bymel - drums
Recorded on March 12th, 2008 at HaTeiva, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel by Niv Karasenti.
Mixed & Mastered by Niv Karasenti at Tomix Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Graphic design by Alan Anzalone
Cover art by Daniel Healey
Tray photo by Birgit Ulher
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 013 - JUS
Lindsay/Mendoza/Smith/Walter
Jacob Lindsay - Ab, Bb, Bass & Contrabass Clarinets
Ava Mendoza - Guitar
Damon Smith - 7 String Ergo Bass, lloopp
Weasel Walter - Percussion
Liner notes by Christian Weber
Cover Art by Chelsea Pegram
Design by Alan Azalone
Recorded by Scott R. Looney
Mixed and Mastered by Weasel Walter
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 012 - Ausfegen: Dedicated to Joseph Beuys
Kristian Apelin/Paul Hartsaw/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton
Ausfegen BPA012
Dedicated to Joseph Beuys
Paul Hartsaw - Soprano and Tenor Saxophones
Kristian Aspelin - Guitar, Broom
Damon Smith - Double Basses
Jerome Bryerton - Percussion
Recorded at 1510 8th St. Studios in Oakland, CA on Friday, August 25th, 2006 & the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, CA on Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Scott R. Looney
Graphic design by Alan Azalone
Cover art by Michael Tino
Liner notes by Joe Morris
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 011 - Sextessence
john butcher/aaron bennett/henry kaiser/danielle degruttola/damon smith/jerome bryerton
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 010 - cruxes
aurora josephson/joelle leandre/damon smith/martin blume
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 009 - sperrgut
birgit ulher/damon smith/martin blume
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 008 - the happy makers
wolfgang fuchs/jacob lindsay/damon smith/serge baghdassarians/boris baltschune
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 007 - zero plus
aurora josephson, phillip wachsmann, jacob lindsay, damon smith, martin blume
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 006 - sense of hearing
carol genetti, voice; damon smith, double bass; and fred lonberg-holm, violoncello (tracks 9-12)
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 005 - the voice imitators
Frank Gratkowski - alto saxophone, Bb clarinet and bass clarinet, Jerome Bryerton - percussion and Damon Smith - double bass
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 004 - desert sweets
Biggi Vinkeloe - alto saxaphone and flute, Mark Weaver - tuba and trombone, and Damon Smith - double bass
Recorded april 5, 2001 in Oakland, CA.
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 003 - three october meetings
All titles instant compositions by Fuchs/Breyerton/Smith
Studio recordings 10/19/01 by Scott R. Looney in Emeryville, CA. 8-11 live recordings 10/17/01 by Scott R. Looney at Tuva Space Berkeley, CA. 12 live recording 10/18/01 by Michael Zelner/Zoka at The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
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 002 - the sale of tickets for money was abolished -OUT OF PRINT-
tony bevan, scott looney, damon smith
The trio on this recording are as much a part of their place in historical evolution as any group operating today, clearly a product of prodigious awareness of history. The subcategories of improvised music are re-revealed and ignored on this recording with a satisfying fluidity...Reuben Radding
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