Charlie Looker

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Charles A. Looker[1] (born May 23, 1980) is an American composer, improviser, vocalist, and guitarist known for his work in experimental metal,[2] contemporary classical,[3] avant-jazz, and Renaissance and Medieval musical forms.[4]

Education and career

Looker is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he studied with Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier.[5]

Alongside his work as a solo artist,[2] Looker also leads an Early/Renaissance-music inspired project, Seaven Teares;[6] performs improvised "death-jazz" with Period, whose rotating cast includes Darius Jones, Chuck Bettis, and Mike Pride;[7] played in Sculptress, a duo with Chuck Stern;[8] and leads the industrial-metal duo Psalm Zero, formerly alongside Castevet's Andrew Hock.[9] He is the songwriter, guitarist, and lead vocalist for avant-rock band Extra Life[10] and a former member and co-founder of avant-garde band Zs.[11] He worked with Dirty Projectors and appears on their record Rise Above.[12] Other collaborators include M Lamar,[13] Mariel Roberts, Ty Braxton,[14] Mary Halvorson, Mick Barr, Tim Berne, Nat Baldwin,[15] Earle Brown, Sam Mickens, Kelly Moran, Dax Riggs, Lingua Ignota,[16] Matthew Welch,[17] Stu Watson, William Parker,[18] and Glenn Branca.

He founded Last Things Records, a label that has released recordings by Extra Life, Larkin Grimm, Parenthetical Girls, Psalm Zero, and Sculptress.

In 2011, Looker was named one of NPR Music's "Top 100 Composers Under 40".[19]

Discography

As leader

Year Artist Title Label
2002 Lavender Get Your Eye[20] Newsonic
2006 Extra Life Three-Song EP FuckingA
2008 Extra Life A Split (EP)[4] Shatter Your Leaves
2008 Extra Life Secular Works[21] Planaria / I & Ear / LOAF
2010 Extra Life Made Flesh[22] LOAF / Africantape
2011 Extra Life Ripped Heart (EP)[23] Last Things
2012 Extra Life Dream Seeds[24] Northern Spy
2013 Seaven Teares Power Ballads[25] Northern Spy
2014 Psalm Zero The Drain[26] Profound Lore
2016 Psalm Zero Stranger to Violence[27] Profound Lore
2018 Charlie Looker Simple Answers[2] Last Things
2020 Psalm Zero Sparta[16] Last Things
2020 Charlie Looker Pleasures Of A Normal Man Last Things
2020 Seaven Teares Older Than Love
2022 Extra Life Secular Works, Vol. 2[28] Last Things
2024 Extra Life The Sacred Vowel[29] Last Things

As co-leader

Year Artist Title Label
2000 Daniel Carter / Charlie Looker / Greg Stare Light Aristocracy Communication
2003 Zs Zs Troubleman Unlimited
2005 Zs Buck[30] Folding Cassettes
2005 Zs Karate Bump (EP)[30] Planaria
2006 PERIOD PERIOD FuckingA
2006 Seductive Sprigs Seductive Sprigs[31] FuckingA
2007 Zs Arms[32] Planaria
2008 Zs The Hard (EP) Three One G
2011 Sculptress Cuckold Last Things
2012 Zs The Complete Sextet Works 2002-2007[30] Northern Spy
2014 PERIOD PERIOD 2[33] Public Eyesore
2021 Jeremiah Cymerman / Charlie Looker A Horizon Made of Canvas[34] Astral Spirits

As sideperson

Year Artist Title Label
2002 Alvin Lucier Vespers and Other Early Works New World Records
2002 Matthew Welch Ceol Nua Leo Records
2005 Mike Pride Scrambler[35] Not Two Records
2006 Earle Brown Folio and Four Systems Tzadik
2007 Dirty Projectors Rise Above Dead Oceans
2016 Tredici Bacci Amore Per Tutti[36] NNA
2017 M Lamar Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche[37] Negrogothic
2021 Xiu Xiu OH NO Polyvinyl
2023 Xiu Xiu Ignore Grief Polyvinyl

References

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