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Banyan (Band)Banyan is an art rock band with heavy jazz and punk influence, based in Los Angeles, California. The leader and co-founder is Stephen Perkins, who first played drums for Jane's Addiction (1987-1991, plus later regroupings), and then for Porno for Pyros. He co-founded the group with David Turin. Nels Cline is the guitarist, Willie Waldman plays trumpet, and Mike Watt is the bassist. They are also sometimes joined by a saxophonist (name?) and the first EP featured Money Mark as keyboardist labeled as the Freeway Keyboardist. In place of a singer, the Los Angeles artist Norton Wisdom paints on a wet-erase board while the band plays, and the imagery he creates interprets the music much in the same way that lyrics might. To see the band in more than one performance, you will see some images that recur and some that are new, since the songs are compositions whose structure remains the same while there is also a large amount of improvisation, in the jazz tradition. Notable guest appearances on the second album Anytime at All include Flea, John Frusciante, and Martyn LeNoble, Rob Wasserman and Buckethead. In liner notes and personal conversations, members of the band cite Igor Stravinsky and Miles Davis as influences. Discography - Banyan (self-titled), 1997
*Anytime at All, 1999
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