Damon Smith

Double bassist Damon Smith surfaced on the Bay Area free improvisation scene in the mid-'90s. His style is akin to Peter Kowald and Joëlle Léandre: intense, lush, acutely free-form, and yet inhabited by a form of lyricism. He first performed alongside saxophonist Marco Eneidi. Since then, he has played with many musicians from San Francisco and abroad. In 2001, he launched his own record label, Balance Point Acoustics. Born Damon Jesse Smith on October 17, 1972, he came to music rather late and from the punk rock perspective. Influenced by fIREHOSE and Minutemen's Mike Watt, ...