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Weasel Walter (born Christopher Todd Walter, May 18, 1972) is an American composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of ugEXPLODE Records. Walter's work has been informed by techniques and traditions of music including
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. He coined the term "brutal prog" to describe the aggressively dissonant strain of prog played by groups like his band
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. Known as an unrelenting and abrasive provocateur whose performances trend toward overblown antics and "nihilistic glee", Walter has been described by renowned guitarist Mary Halvorson as "completely manic and extraordinarily sensitive" and by ''
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'' as "a splinter lodged beneath the fingernail". Avant-garde artist
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once called him "one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived". He has performed as leader and sideperson in a number of bands, including
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Retrovirus. Walter has worked with
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, John Butcher, Tim Dahl, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, Henry Kaiser, Joe Morris, Jim O'Rourke,
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, as well as in bands including Sharon Cheslow,
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, The Chicago Sound, The Scissor Girls, U.S. Maple, and
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. He has produced albums by AIDS Wolf,
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, and Total Shutdown.


Career

In 1990, Walter moved to Chicago to work with
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(born Harold Luttenbacher) at Columbia College. The following year, Russell joined Walter in co-founding the band
the Flying Luttenbachers The Flying Luttenbachers is an American instrumental unit led by multi-instrumentalist/ composer/ improviser/ producer Weasel Walter. The Flying Luttenbachers have created a body of work focused on musical extremity and dissonance. Over the cou ...
; saxophonist Chad Organ played in the early trio lineup. Russell left the band in the summer of 1992, and shortly after
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took his place for the recording of the band's first 7". Walter was highly involved in cultivating what he deemed the "Chicago No Wave" scene, meeting new musicians and collaborators through the Luttenbachers' art rock-continuum gigs and the experimental improvised music series he ran at Myopic Books. He graduated from Columbia College in 1995, with a final project, "Un-nerve", performed by a nonet including Ken Vandermark, Gene Coleman, Jim Baker,
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, and Gustavo Leone. A prolific performing and recording artist, Walter was a founding member of projects including Miss High Heel (with Jim O'Rourke and Azita of
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), Lake of Dracula (with Marlon Magas and Heather M. of the Scissor Girls), To Live and Shave in L.A. 2, 7000 Dying Rats, and Hatewave. Walter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he reformed The Flying Luttenbachers with the addition of bassist Mike Green, guitarist Ed Rodriguez, and later Mick Barr. The Flying Luttenbachers officially disbanded in 2007. In late 2009, Walter announced that he was moving to New York City to join Behold... The Arctopus as the band's second drummer. He played on ''Horrorscension'', released in 2012, and in two tours before leaving the band in 2013. Walter continued finding new collaborators and formed a number of groups in New York, among them
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, a band with
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, Admiral Grey, and Ceci Moss. In 2017, after a ten-year hiatus, the Flying Luttenbachers played several shows in France, with a new trio lineup of Walter, on drums, joined by bass guitarist Tim Dahl and guitarist Chris Welcome. In 2019, a quartet arrangement of the band released ''Shattered Dimension'', with Walter and Dahl joined by saxophonist Matt Nelson and guitarist Brandon Seabrook. Over the next several years, the varying lineup also included bassist Evan Lipson, guitarist Henry Kaiser, guitarist Wendy Eisenberg, guitarist Katie Battistoni, guitarist
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, and drummer Sam Ospovat.


Discography


As solo artist

*''Revolt Music'' (ugEXPLODE, 2006) *''Early Recordings 1988–1991'' (Savage Land, 2007) *''Firestorm'' (ugEXPLODE, 2007) *''Large Group Performances 2007-2009'' (ugEXPLODE, 2009) *''Apocalyptik Paranoia'' (Gaffer, 2009) *''Invasion'' (ugEXPLODE, 2010) *''Ominous Telepathic Mayhem'' (ugEXPLODE, 2011) *''Improvised Music Sampler'' (2014) *''End Of An Error'' (2014) *''Fragments'' (2015) *''Half-Death'' (2015) *''Tribute To 'B' and 'C' List Musicians From The Early Years Of MTV, And G.G. Allin'' (2015) *''For Andrew Ortmann'' (2015) *''Seriously: Fuck The Entire World'' (2015) *''Igneity: After The Fall Of Civilization'' (2016) *''Curses'' (2016) *''She's So 60 Minutes of Heavy'' (2016) *''The Inevitable'' (Tombed Visions, 2016) *''Expensive Taste'' (Kitty Play, 2016) *''Skhiizm'' (ugEXPLODE, 2018) *''The Best of the Worst'' (ugEXPLODE, 2020)


As band member

;with Behold... The Arctopus *'' Horrorscension'' (
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, 2012) ;with Burmese *''Colony Collapse Disorder'' (Rock Is Hell, 2009) *''Lun Yurn'' (ugEXPLODE/Rock is Hell, 2011) ;with
Cellular Chaos Cellular Chaos is a noise- punk band from Brooklyn New York that was founded by Weasel Walter. Music journalist Brad Cohan described the band's status as such: "Cellular Chaos, black sheep of Brooklyn’s DIY noise-punk underground, have trudged o ...
*''Demo Live 5.12.11'' (ugEXPLODE, 2011) *''Cellular Chaos EP'' (ugEXPLODE, 2012) *''Cellular Chaos'' (ugEXPLODE, 2013) *''Diamond Teeth Clenched'' (Skin Graft, 2016) *''Dirty Girl'' (ugEXPLODE, 2018) ;with Encenathrakh *''Respekt The Demo'' (Rectomorph/Dense(s)/Lindung, 2013) *''Encenathrakh'' (P2/Dense(s), 2015) *''The 2 Song Promo 19'' (P2/Lindung, 2019) *''Live Album'' (P2, 2020) *''Thraakethraaeate Thraithraake'' (P2, 2020) *''Studio Album'' (P2, 2021) ;with
The Flying Luttenbachers The Flying Luttenbachers is an American instrumental unit led by multi-instrumentalist/ composer/ improviser/ producer Weasel Walter. The Flying Luttenbachers have created a body of work focused on musical extremity and dissonance. Over the cou ...
*'' Destructo Noise Explosion!: Live at WNUR 2-6-92'' (ugEXPLODE, 1992) *'' Constructive Destruction'' (ugEXPLODE, 1994) *'' Destroy All Music'' (ugEXPLODE, 1995) *'' Revenge of the Flying Luttenbachers'' (
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, 1996) *'' Gods of Chaos'' (Skin Graft, 1998) *''Retrospektiw III'' (ugEXPLODE, 1998) *'' "...The Truth Is a Fucking Lie..."'' (ugEXPLODE/Skin Graft, 1999) *''Alptraum'' (ugEXPLODE, 2000) *''Trauma'' (ugEXPLODE, 2001) *''Infection and Decline'' (Troubleman Unlimited, 2002) *''Retrospektiw IV'' (ugEXPLODE, 2002) *''Systems Emerge from Complete Disorder'' (Troubleman/ugEXPLODE, 2003) *''The Void'' (Troubleman/ugEXPLODE, 2004) *''Spectral Warrior Mythos'' (ugEXPLODE, 2005) *''Cataclysm'' (ugEXPLODE, 2006) *''Incarceration by Abstraction'' (ugEXPLODE, 2007) *''Destroy All Music Revisited'' (Skin Graft, 2007) *''Shattered Dimension'' (ugEXPLODE, 2019) *''Imminent Death'' (ugEXPLODE, 2019) ;with Hatewave *''Demo 1997'' (1997) *''Hatewave'' (Up Jumps The Devil/ Tumult, 1998) ;with Lake Of Dracula *''Lake Of Dracula'' (Skin Graft, 1997) *''Four Teachers / Violators 7"'' (
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, 1998) *''Skeletal Remains'' (Savage Land/Roccoco Records, 2006) ;with
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*''Retrovirus'' (ugEXPLODE, 2013) *''3x3 EP'' (2015) *''Urge To Kill'' (Rustblade/Widowspeak, 2015) *''Live In Zurich'' (Widowspeak, 2016) *''Brutal Measures'' (Widowspeak, 2016) ;with
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* '' Sixth in Sixes'' (
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, 2005) * ''
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'' (Polyvinyl, 2007) * ''Sounds'' (Important Records, 2007) * ''Un Usper'' (self-released, 2009)


Collaborations

;with Sheik Anorak & Mario Rechtern *''The Forbidden Beat'' (Gaffer, 2010 *''Bass Bass Bass Bass'' (Gaffer, 2010) ;with Josh Berman & Aram Shelton *''Last Distractions'' (Singlespeed, 2009) ;with
Jeb Bishop Jeb Bishop (born 1962) is an American jazz trombone player. He grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School. He has studied music (classical trombone performance) at Northwestern University, engineering and ...
& Alex Ward *''Flayed'' (ugEXPLODE, 2019) ;with David Buddin *''Quodlibet'' (2015) ;with John Butcher & Damon Smith *''Catastrophe of Minimalism'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2017) ;with Charity Chan, Peter Evans, & Tom Blancarte *''Cryptocrystalline'' (ugEXPLODE, 2013) ;with Nels Cline, Henry Kaiser, Jim Thomas, & Allen Whitman *''Jazz Free'' (There Records/A Train, 2012) ;with Kevin Drumm & Fred Lonberg-Holm *''Eruption'' (Grob, 2004) ;
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/ Weasel Walter Group *''Mysteries Beneath The Planet'' (ugEXPLODE, 2009) *''Blood Of The Earth'' (ugEXPLODE, 2010) *''Solar Emission'' (ugEXPLODE, 2011) ;with Martin Escalante *''Lacerate'' (ugEXPLODE, 2018) ;with Peter Evans *''Poisonous'' (ugEXPLODE, 2018) ;with Peter Evans, James Fei, & Damon Smith *''Eponymous'' (ugEXPLODE, 2008) ;Peter Evans / Weasel Walter Group *''Oculus Ex Abyssus'' (ugEXPLODE, 2008) ;with Sandy Ewen *''Idiomatic'' (ugEXPLODE, 2018) ;with Sandy Ewen &
Damon Smith Damon Smith (born October 17, 1972) is an American free improvising bassist. He has worked with Cecil Taylor, Peter Brötzmann, Marshall Allen, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Jim O'Rourke etc. Biography Smith spent his ...
*''Sandy Ewen / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter'' (ugEXPLODE, 2012) *''Live In Texas'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2016) *''Untitled ug 79'' (ugEXPLODE, 2020) ;with Den Svarta Fanan ( Nonoko Yoshida, Ron Anderson, Joe Merolla, Walter) *''Den Svarta Fanan'' (ugEXPLODE, 2013) ;with
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& Tim Dahl *''Farm Fresh'' (Gotta Let It Out, 2019) ;with
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*''Particles'' (2009) ;with Paul Flaherty, C. Spencer Yeh, &
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*''Dragonfly Breath'' (Not Two, 2013) *''Dragonfly Breath III: Live At The Stone: Megaloprepus Caerulatus'' (Not Two, 2016) ;with Michael Forbes & Andrew Scott Young *''American Free'' (ugEXPLODE, 2009) ; with Michael Foster, Steve Swell, & Brandon Lopez *''Throes are the Only Trouble'' (2017) ;with Gianni Gebbia & Damon Smith *''Lichens'' (ugEXPLODE, 2007) ;with
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& Damon Smith *''Großes Messer'' (ugEXPLODE, 2009) ;with Forbes Graham, Greg Kelley, & Paul Flaherty *''End of the Trail'' (ugEXPLODE, 2008) ;with Mary Halvorson *''Opulence'' (ugEXPLODE, 2008) ;with Mary Halvorson & Peter Evans *''Mystery Meat'' (ugEXPLODE, 2009) *''Electric Fruit'' (
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, 2011) *''Mechanical Malfunction'' (Thirsty Ear, 2012) ;with JeJaWeDa (Jeb Bishop,
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, Walter, & Damon Smith) *''Pioneer Works vol. 1'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2019) *''Pioneer Works vol. 2'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2019) ;with Henry Kaiser & Charles K. Noyes *''Ninja Star Danger Rock'' (There Records/ugEXPLODE, 2011) ;with Henry Kaiser, Paul Plimley, & Lukas Ligeti *''The Starbreak Splatterlight'' (There Records, 2012) ;with Henry Kaiser & Damon Smith *''Plane Crash'' (ugEXPLODE, 2009) *''Plane Crash Two'' (New Atlantis, 2015) ;with Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Vinny Golia, & Ra-Kalam Bob Moses *''Astral Plane Crash'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2018) ;with Yoni Kretzmer & Pascal Niggenkemper *''ProtestMusic'' (Outnow Recordings, 2014) ;with Dominic Lash & Alex Ward *''Trapeze'' (spoonhunt, 2015) ;with Matteo Liberatore &
Elliott Sharp Elliott Sharp (born March 1, 1951) is an American contemporary classical composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released ...
*''L'Ora Del Pasto'' (2020) ;with Jacob Lindsay,
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, & Damon Smith *''Jus'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2008) ;with
Fred Lonberg-Holm Fred Lonberg-Holm (born 1 October 1962) is an American cellist based in Chicago. He moved from New York City to Chicago in 1995. Lonberg-Holm is most identified with playing free improvisation and free jazz. He is also a composer of concert wor ...
& Jim O'Rourke *''Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi'' (ugEXPLODE, 2000) ;with Kenny Millions & Damon Smith *''Fuck Music... Tell Jokes - You'll Make More Money'' (Unhinged, 2018) ;with No Mor Musik (Nandor Nevai, Walter,
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) *''No Mor Musik'' (ugEXPLODE, 2010) ;with Phonon (Elliott Sharp, Álvaro Domene, Colin Marston, Walter) *''Alloy'' (ZOaR, 2020) ;with Chris Pitsiokos *''Unplanned Obsolescence'' (ugEXPLODE, 2012) *''Drawn and Quartered'' (One Hand, 2015) ;with Chris Pitsiokos & Ron Anderson *''Maximalism'' (Eleatic, 2013) ;with Sam Weinberg & Henry Fraser *''Walter/Weinberg/Fraser / Maestro Day'' split (Renfusa, 2017) *''Grist'' (ugEXPLODE, 2020) ;with Sam Weinberg & Teté Leguia *''Weinberg/Leguía/Walter'' (Buh Records, 2018) ;with Sam Weinberg & Sandy Ewen *''Ventricles'' (Renfusa, 2020) ;with
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, Damon Smith, & Scott R. Looney *''Scowl'' (ugEXPLODE, 2011)


References


External links


Official site
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