Charlie Looker

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Charlie Looker
The Charlie Looker Ensemble performing at Knockdown Center in Queens, 2017
The Charlie Looker Ensemble performing at Knockdown Center in Queens, 2017
Background information
Born
Charles Andrew Looker

(1980-05-23) May 23, 1980 (age 45)
New York City
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • keyboards
Labels
Member ofExtra Life
Formerly ofZs, Psalm Zero, Dirty Projectors
Websitecharlielooker.com

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

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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

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As leader

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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
2019 Nothing Human [Five Bandcamp singles]
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

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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

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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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