eric sarmiento
French pop / Pop / Dutch pop
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Highland Park, New Jersey
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| Member Since | 4/28/2006 | | Band Website | alchemistrecords.com | | Influences | antony and cleopatra, belle and sebastian, caetano veloso, dead kennedys, elfquest, french horse shamans, georg groddeck, moby dick, i and i, nepalese sauce makers, kings of convenience, lawrence durrell, minutemen, new order, youssou n'door, the dodo, ranking ranqueen, smiths, rumi, tsuki no wa, leonard cohen, velvet underground, lorca, yo la tengo, the zombies. tino, zadie smith, borges, the wide sargasso sea, grand lake, the awakening. george michael, frank sinatra, chef henri, and somewhere way back there, galicia. | | Record Label | Alchemist Records | | Type of Label | Indie |
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things i've done that might give some idea of the weird results of my musical pursuits: performed with several bands (the new tribe, a suncrush for sweethearts, the pistol arrows, the candles), as well as numerous solo performances; recorded 6 full-length albums and 3 EPs for several labels (engine shed records, remorseless records, nub records, alchemist records); with several friends/musical comrades formed the musician's collective alchemist records; had great song ideas in the middle of the night, thought "oh, i'll remember this tomorrow," didn't; played in front of several hundred thousand people at an NOW rally in washington, d.c.; taught many a guitar lesson, through which i had the privilege of meeting scores of interesting and amazing people; played (very) free form improvisational music with ray clemens and was surprised to see that people actually appeared to be into it; won first prize in the woody guthrie songwriting contest; played in wretched dive bars in places i don't care to mention; was one of ten finalists in mary-kate and ashley olsen's battle of the bands; gave away over 30,000 downloads on various websites like besonic.com; had a couple of songs featured on independent film soundtracks; played for a couple of noodling tournaments, in which grown men (and maybe a few women) compete to see who can catch the largest catfish with their bare hands; did a sex pistols tribute show (the sex pistol arrows); was featured on entertainment mothers TV, a japanese musical talent show of sorts; played shows from coast to coast in the US; played for change in the new york subways so as to be able to eat and pay for the metro to get to work; performed some spoken word pieces with the cluster chord string quartet; played in an amazing old theater in paris; had an album in the CMJ top 200 for six weeks or so; was a finalist in the asakusa jazz contest; spent hours in a van in the middle of a blizzard, waiting outside some guy's house who was supposed to let us sleep on his floor; sang beatles songs in a karaoke booth with kenzo saeki; etcetera.
beyond all this, however, many of the experiences that have meant the most to me have been too ephemeral to mean much when written down in a form like this, in a place like this....that's where the music itself comes in -- hopefully it says everything i can't get across here.
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