Tim Barnes

The drummer Tim Barnes was essential in 3 ways: as an expansive experimental percussionist (and producer/engineer privately) who had one foot in the downtown NY avant-jazz community while adding to even more traditional indie rock projects; as who owns the Quakebasket label, vendors of limited-edition and broader produces of function by modern experimenters aswell as cautious reissues; and, finally, via his time work, where he helped bridge the worlds of indie rock and roll and music licensing to promote. Barnes surfaced in the past due 1990s, adding to indie rock and roll staples just like the Sterling silver Jews as well as the Elephant 6-associated Essex Green, aswell as pop-fancying avant-garde mainstay Jim O’Rourke. Barnes discovered a kindred heart in another O’Rourke pal, drummer Glenn Kotche, with whom he tandem-drummed on O’Rourke’s Halfway to a Threeway and his traditional Insignificance. Like Kotche, who continued to drum for Wilco, Barnes utilized the drum package being a melodic device, filling rock and roll rhythms with textures taken from an innate understanding of his sets’ textures (showed on Barnes’ nearly puritanically drummy single debut, All Acoustics). Barnes added frequently towards the recordings of New Britain hippie sound guitarist Matt Valentine, including Tower Recordings and MV & EE. He hovered over the advantage of Sonic Youth’s globe, as well, signing up for the band because of their deeply psychedelic Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui discharge and offering as periodic member in Lee Ranaldo’s Text message of Light. Established in 1999 to reissue a set of albums of founding Velvet Underground drummer (and famous drone specialist in his personal correct) Angus MacLise, Barnes’ Quakebasket imprint became an wall plug for himself and additional drummers, including several tasks with Kotche (who came back the favour by getting Barnes along for Wilco’s 2004 Ghost EXISTS classes). Throughout his profession, Barnes maintained day time jobs as industrial sound developer and a suggester of music for advertisements. Due to his participation, avant-garde and indie works were combined with advertisements, including Apples in Stereo system, the ocean and Wedding cake, German experimenters Faust, and free of charge jazz drummer and educator Milford Graves.