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Originally Posted by Machine
I like this thread quite a bit nice idea!
Well I'll start with my guitar I guess, for my acoustic guitar playing I'm very influenced by a few people starring with Elliott Smith. I love his fractured melodic sence and I unconsciously incorporate those things into my poppier songs. I also draw from Sean Bonnette from Andrew Jackson Jihad, okay so I'll begin by saying that this guy is an amazing guitar player look up a live AJJ show and you see what I mean. His fingerpicking style and vicious ferocity of his strumming is something that I've spent months and months learning and perfecting and am partially ashamed to say it's a style I emulate quite often. As for my electric guitar playing I can note Justin Broadrick as a big influence on my drone playing that melodic wall that he creates in Jesus and extreme textures in Godflesh. My more stripped back style has influence from Johnny Greenwood, Michael Karoli, and David Gilmour (I like slow yet screetchy guitar solos).
Singing is a bit more simple, I don't really emulate anyone in my own music, but I certainly hear Phil Elverum (The Microphones/Mount Eerie) in some of my softer.
For drumming I can note Glenn Kotche with his jazzy more flamboyant very personified playing, as well as Grizzly Bear's Christopher Bear who uses his drum set more like a full pecussion section.
I taught myself keyboards and piano and never really listened to piano players so I influenced my self there.
So I guess that's about it, I think taking from a large body of musicians to make up part of your own influence and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact finding new artists that literally help and shape some of the techniques of my playing is very exciting.
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I already told you via PM, but your noisier drone guitar work really reminded me of Keiji Haino, tbh. Maybe just because it's a standard within the style and he's one of the best, but I really hear it in there.
And I forgot about other instruments! When my drumming is restrained, it's kind of similar to King of Sludge's from Too Many Zooz because I was listening to a lot of them when I was trying to diversify my style. Generally though, my style is extremely Han Bennink. I try out new things but dude, I'm largely a Bennink ripoff artist.
And how surprising, one of Bennink's most common collaborators, Peter Brotzmann is my key sax influence. I'm a fire breather and he showed me the ropes.
With piano, I'm self taught, but there's a lot of Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra's somewhat nonsensical playing when I do go that route.
As far as other instruments go, I really did find my own way about the instrument through teaching it to myself.