Skerik

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Name = Skerik

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Img_capt = Skerik with The Headhunters
at Schuba's June 21, 2005
Photo by Matt Kanable [e-mail]
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Background = solo_singer
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Alias = Nalgas Sin Carne
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Origin = Seattle, Washington
Instrument = saxophone, electronics, vocals, keyboards
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Label = Hyena, Ropeadope, Independent
Associated_acts = Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet, Critters Buggin, Les Claypool's Fancy Band, Garage A Trois, Ponga_(band), Maelstrom Trio, Illuminasty Duo
URL = http://www.syncopatedtaint.com/
http://www.crittersbuggin.com/
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Skerik (born Eric Walton) is an American saxophonist from Seattle, Washington. Performing on the tenor and baritone saxophone, often with electronics and loops, Skerik is a pioneer in a playing style that has been dubbed saxophonics. He is a founding member of Critters Buggin, Crack Sabbath, and Garage a Trois (including Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter and Mike Dillon, recently featuring Marco Benevento). Skerik has been a member of, performed frequently, or toured with the following: Les Claypool's Fancy Band and Frog Brigade, Dumpstaphunk, Johnny Vidacovich, Fred Wesley, Mike Clark, The Headhunters, Bobby Previte, Ponga, Joe Doria, Sadhappy, Tuatara (with Peter Buck), Mad Season, Roger Waters and many others.

Skerik leads Seattle-based "punk-jazz" ensemble Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet. He also co-leads New Orleans-based Maelstrom Trio (including long-time duomates keyboardist Brian Coogan and drummer Simon Lott). The Maelstrom Trio combines disparate elements such as free jazz, funk, metal and textural music.

Skerik and percussionist Mike Dillon often perform as a trio with alternate third members. National tours have included keyboardist Brian Haas and bassists James Singleton and Brad Houser.

elected Discography

kerik

*2001: Skerik "Psychochromatic" (Skerik Music)
*2002: "Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet" (Ropeadope)
*2002: Black Frames "Solarallergy" (independent)
*2004: Crack Sabbath "Bar Slut" (Independent)
*2006: Skerik "Left For Dead In Seattle" (1995-2003 independent)
*2006: Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet "Husky" (Hyena Records)

with Critters Buggin

*1994: Critters Buggin "Guest" (Loosegroove Records)
*1997: Critters Buggin "Host" (Loosegroove Records)
*1997: Critters Buggin "Monkeypot Merganzer" (Loosegroove Records)
*1998: Critters Buggin "Bumpa" (Loosegroove Records)
*1998: Critters Buggin "Amoeba" (Loosegroove Records)
*2004: Critters Buggin "Stampede" (Ropeadope Records)
*2007: Critters Buggin "Get the Clackervalve and the Old Clobberd Biscuits Out and Smack the Grand Ham Clapper's Mother" (DVD)

with Les Claypool

*2001: Les Claypool's Frog Brigade "Live Frogs Set 1" (Prawn Song Records)
*2001: Les Claypool's Frog Brigade "Live Frogs Set 2" (Prawn Song Records)
*2002: Les Claypool's Frog Brigade "Purple Onion" (Prawn Song Records)
*2005 Les Claypool "5 Gallons Of Diesel" (DVD - Prawn Song Records)
*2006: Les Claypool "Of Whales and Woe" (Prawn Song Records)
*2007: Les Claypool "Fancy" (DVD - Prawn Song Records)

with Stanton Moore

*1998: Stanton Moore "All Kooked Out!" (Fog City Records)
*1999: Garage a Trois "Mysteryfunk" (Fog City Records - vinyl)
*2002: Stanton Moore "Flyin' the Koop" (Verve Records)
*2003: Garage a Trois "Emphasizer" (Tone Cool Records)
*2005: Garage a Trois "Outre Mer" (Telarc Records)
*2006: Stanton Moore "III" (Telarc Records)

with Bobby Previte

*1998: Ponga "Ponga" (Loosegroove Records)
*1999: Ponga "Remix" (CD and clear vinyl) (Loosegroove Records)
*2000: Ponga "Psychological" (P-Vine)
*2006: Bobby Previte - Jamie Saft - Skerik "Live in Japan 2003" (Word Public - DVD)
*2006: Beta Popes "Live Hate"
*2006: Bobby Previte "Coalition of the Willing" (Ropeadope)
*2007: Bobby Previte "April In New York"
*2008: Beta Popes "White Hate" (Veal)

with Sadhappy

*1992: Sadhappy "Depth Charge" (Periscope Records)
*1994: Sadhappy "Before We Were Dead - Live" (Periscope Records)
*1994: Sadhappy "The Good, Bad and the Skary" (Periscope Records)

with others

*1995: Mad Season "Above" (Columbia Records)

*1995: Mad Season "Live at the Moore" (Columbia Records - DVD)
*1996: Tuatara "Breaking the Ethers" (Epic Records)
*1998: Tuatara "Trading with the Enemy" (Epic Records)
*1999: Hairy Apes BMX "Expatriape" (AW/VR)
*2002: Tuatara "Cinemathique" (Fast Horse Records)
*2003: Jacek Kochan "New Expensive Head" (Gowi)
*2003: The Clinton Administration "One Nation Under a Re-Groove" (Magnatude)
*2003: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey "Symbiosis Osmosis" (Kufala)
*2007: Hella "There's No 666 in Outer Space" (Ipecac Records)
*2008: Kayo Dot "Blue Lambency Downward" (Hydra Head Records)

References

* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=23225 Interview by Paul Olsen, October 2006]
* [http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=1615 Interview by The Kayceman, October, 2001]
* [http://www.syncopatedtaint.com/PDF/SkerikBio.pdf Skerik Bio from www.syncopatedtaint.com]

External links

* [http://www.syncopatedtaint.com/ Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet]
* [http://www.myspace.com/43304272 Skerik's MySpace]
* [http://www.crittersbuggin.com/ Critters Buggin]
* [http://www.thejumpstation.com/brassuptheass/brassuptheass.htm Fansite]