Maxwell's Kitchen

MK88 - Sam Coomes - Quasi Founder & Multi-Instrumentalist Talks Touring and Recording Experiences


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Sam Coomes is a Cascadia based musician/producer, half of the long-running underground pop band Quasi (along with Janet Weiss ), & synth player in Jon Spencer and the Hitmakers.   SC  has also toured &/or recorded with Built To Spill, Elliott Smith, Jandek, The Go-Betweens, Marissa Anderson, J.D. Pinkus (Butthole Surfers) & a long list of musicians of lesser media visibility, & is also a member of heavy prog/experimental ensemble Pink Mountain (not to be confused with The Pink Mountaintops {unfortunate happenstance}), Crock - a duo also featuring Spencer Seim (Hella), & Deep Fried Boogie Band.  He has collaborated with visual artist/musician Chris Johanson on soundtracks to art installations (Ensemble IS) & scored several films by Portland based underground filmmaker Vanessa Renwick.  SC  has toured internationally as a solo artist, first under the name Blues Goblins, & later under his more mundane given name.  Oddly, SC is a two time member or the Oregon Music Hall of Fame (it exists), as a member of Quasi & also as a member of Heatmiser.

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