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Joel T. Johnson
Age:	38
Location:	Los Angeles/Upstate NY
Phone Number:	661-5108481
Email Address(es):	thraak@hotmail.com
Projects/Ensembles:	Sound Track -Naides Ninas del Augua, Squeedle- It's Not About the Drill, Ned Lucas -Drawn to You, Jim Schreck -Have a Larry Christmas, Tom Chaffee -various gigs, Annie Wells -tours & demos, Dark Heart Alarm -debut album, The Great Divide -The Works of Man and a few gigs for Country artist David Reeves Carpenter.
Instruments:	Four string bass, electric tenor banjo, some hand held percussion, Western singing and Tibetian throat singing.
Looping Gear:	Electrix Repeater controlled with organ pedals wired to the parallel port of a PC using custom written VB software. Korg MS-2 analog synth controlled by the bass or mic. There's ART SGX200 and a couple stomp boxes in there also.
Influences:	The White Stripes, Tony Levin, Pat Menthany, Stewart Copland, Dave Weckle, The Blue Nile, Igor Stravinski, and a few others not to mention my own isolationist ignorance--not necessarily in that order.
Musical Style:	White Stripes meets King Crimson ...meets World Beat meets Miles Davis. Pete Townsend on a bass.
Recordings Available:	Coming soon...

On bass guitar: To me, as the Wailers' Wire Lindo said of his Hammond organ, my bass guitar is a 'percussion instrument'. Like a percussionist I administer a fair amount of tough love--my bass's name is spanky. It's also a relationship of intimacy. A bass just feels good in my hands whether it's shrieking, booming or a '78 Buick with a bad tranny. It is my aim to make the audience feel that same joy and wonder of possiblity I get when I strap a bass click on the amp on and contemplate tearing open the silence. On Looping and Technology: The loopers and effects I use are just are only tools, just a color on the pallet. If I let them get in the way of, or become the music, I have failed myself and my audience... Damn if it isn't half the fun though! On singing and songwriting: Playing bass and using technology have always been easy for me. Singing has been a hard won talent for me. The fruits of my labors have been stumbling onto throat singing and a side of myself that I didn't know existed. Writing songs is simply something that can't be helped.

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