This week’s guest is Chris Icasiano – Chris is a Filipino-American percussionist and composer from Redmond, WA. His specialization in free-improvisation and experimental music combined with his vast experience with pop and rock have made him a highly sought after collaborator in all genres of music. His debut solo work Provinces explores the complexity of cultural identity and community as a second generation immigrant in Seattle.
You can find Chris on the road with Fleet Foxes and Pure Bathing Culture or at home in Seattle playing weirdo experimental shows as a soloist or with longtime drum and sax duo Bad Luck. I hope you enjoy the 5 records that helped shape Chris Icasiano into the drummer he is today. Cheers!
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CHRIS’ BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻
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Album – Koln Concert
Artist – Keith Jarrett
Release Year – 1975
Key Track(s) – Part I
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Album – Perceptual
Artist – Brian Blade Fellowship
Release Year – 2000
Key Track(s) – Reconciliation
Drummer – Brian Blade
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Album – The Trials of Van Occupanther
Artist – Midlake
Release Year – 2006
Key Track(s) – Roscoe; Van Occupanther
Drummer – McKenzie Smith
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Album – Catch Thirty-Three
Artist – Meshuggah
Release Year – 2005
Key Track(s) – In Death – Is Death; Autonomy Lost; The Paradoxical Spiral
Drummer – Tomas Haake
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Album – Time (the revelator)
Artist – Gillian Welch
Release Year – 2001
Key Track(s) – I Dream a Highway; Dear Someone; Revelator
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