We are 3 members : Tony Mono : drums, percussions, Ron Flakey : bass, noise, looper And Fletcher Cornelius : guitars, synths, loopers (sometimes we had some guests). We are from Paris area. We started to play together in march 2014. Tony And Ron are also playing in other bands (more rnr or folk oriented). Our music is improvised and recorded live with a cheap digital recorder. Then We do some cuts and editing and it is released on our web pages. We try to play And record every month And release as much as we can.
Black Panda Beach is an entity, There is no place for egos in our music. What is important for all of us is trying to create something new every Time we play in a complete freedom. No matter what is the share of our music. It has to be new. Another important point is our efforts to try to cancel time. The essential goals are : to be free to play whatever we want to play whenever we want without frontiers, trying to cancel time and to cancel every questions about the style of music we play. At anytime we try to play something new.
At first this band was an idea of our drummer. The goal was to mix noisy music, drone And african rythms. Finally i really don t know. We are into a large Spectrum of musical influences from 60's psyché bands to kraut rock, ethnic musics, expérimental music, jazz, free jazz, folk.....
Tony Mono : Sun Ra, the Velvet Underground, Charlemagne Palestine. Eric Dolphy, Sam Rivers, Prince Lasha, Ornette Coleman, the 13 th Floor Elevator, Lee Perry, Einstürzende Neubauten, the Seeds.....
Ron Flakey : suburban industrial background noise - a mix of trains in the distance, an airplane from time to time, trucks unloading, beeeep, clang, brrrrrr, a motorway somewhere, and then the neighbors car alarm goes off and a dog starts to bark, the 13 th Elevator, Dr John, Neu !, Popol Vuh, Terry Riley....
Fletcher Cornelius : the Velvet Underground, Can, Tom Verlaine & Télévision, Harmonia, Tom Ze, the 13 th Elevator, Mal Waldron, John Coltrane, Richard Pinhas, Earth, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Swans, Sebadoh, Pauline Oliveiros.....
And for all of us many And many more.
