Artist: Tom Heasley Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Desert Triptych Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Tom Heasley began as a sousaphone player in the San Francisco Bay Area new wave scene, playing contemporary music and provision the odd tuba backing for respective jazz and sway projects. At the turn of the millennium he started to play solo exploitation a rack of delays and digital loops, developed an adventuresome ambient reasoned, and turned his calling round, cathartic acclaimed CDs on Hypnos and Innova Recordings. On these, his music has much more than to do with J.A. Deane and Robert Rich than with other observational bass horn players like Joe Daley and Oren Marshall.
Heasley follows the typical Bay Area profile for the generation of musicians born in the late '60s/early '70s. His musical studies set up him in contact with composers such as Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros, and Fred Frith. To make a living as a tuba participant requires flexibility and open-mindedness as jobs are non that numerous. So Heasley worked in all the traditional genres associated with his legal instrument: street fanfares, German oom-pah bands, orchestras, even Chinese funeral bands. But he too recorded TV and film euphony and played for 2 years in the West Coast unit of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra.
His vocation in vanguard music picked up toward the end of his studies, in 1996. That year Oliveros invited him to link her Deep Listening Band for a concert at Mills College. Eugene Chadbourne too picked him up for his project
Louse Attracter. The succeeding three age adage Heasley hard at work, premiering workings by Curran, Jonathan Harvey, and Anne Lebaron while playing with a eclecticist selection of musicians ranging from Wadada Leo Smith and Gerry Hemingway to ex-Can singer Malcolm Mooney. Meanwhile he formed his first groups, including the Tom Heasley Trio with free jazz veteran soldier Bobby Bradford on cornet and guitar player Ken Rosser.
In 2000, Heasley ended up with a identical muted docket. He turned the position into a blessing of sorts when he began to experimentation with digital delays and alive multi-track looping. This technology allowed him to pot low sousaphone notes, creating shifting drones to which he sometimes added throat tattle. After trying out his new attack on stage a few times, he booked studio time with ambient music thaumaturge Robert Rich and recorded his first solo record album. Impressed, Rich pushed the master tapes into the work force of Hypnos Records and
Where the Earth Meets the Sky came forbidden in May 2001. Since then Heasley performs for the most part solo, exploring a ecological niche that sits somewhere between observational medicine and fresh age ambient. A second CD,
On the Sensations of Tone, was released by Innova in April 2002.
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