Damon Smith
Damon Smith is an American double bassist working in free improvisation, born in Spokane, Washington, in 1972. He grew up in eastern Washington and moved to Oakland in the mid-1980s. He started on electric bass, drawn in by Mike Watt of the Minutemen, then moved to the double bass after hearing Peter Kowald. In 2001 he founded the label Balance Point Acoustics, which has released much of his work. Damon Smith studied with Bertram Turetzky, Lisle Ellis, Bill Douglas and Kristin Zerneg. He has played with Cecil Taylor, Peter Brötzmann, Marshall Allen, John Tchicai, Fred Frith and Jim O'Rourke, and with Henry Kaiser on more than ten records, among them Plane Crash (2009). He took part in the soundtracks to Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World. Other records include Healing Force with Vinny Golia (Cuneiform, 2007), Earth's Orbit with William Hooker (NoBusiness, 2010) and Winter Solos (2019).
Damon Smith is an American double bassist working in free improvisation, born in Spokane, Washington, in 1972. He grew up in eastern Washington and moved to Oakland in the mid-1980s. He started on electric bass, drawn in by Mike Watt of the Minutemen, then moved to the double bass after hearing Peter Kowald. In 2001 he founded the label Balance Point Acoustics, which has released much of his work. Damon Smith studied with Bertram Turetzky, Lisle Ellis, Bill Douglas and Kristin Zerneg. He has played with Cecil Taylor, Peter Brötzmann, Marshall Allen, John Tchicai, Fred Frith and Jim O'Rourke, and with Henry Kaiser on more than ten records, among them Plane Crash (2009). He took part in the soundtracks to Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World. Other records include Healing Force with Vinny Golia (Cuneiform, 2007), Earth's Orbit with William Hooker (NoBusiness, 2010) and Winter Solos (2019).
