James Ilgenfritz

Bassist and multi-instrumentalist James Ilgenfritz was born in Monroe, Michigan, November 16, 1978. Originally he was influenced by non--musical artists as beat poets William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, writers Herman Hesse, Franz Kafka, Ken Wilber and Thich Nhat Hanh, comic book artists Matt Wagner and Frank Miller, visual artists Egon Schiele, Andrew Wyeth, Marcel Duchamp, and filmmakers David Lynch, John Waters, Stanley Kubrick. His educational experiences were as diverse as his influences, including summer studies at the Interlochen Center for the Arts from 1992-1996, gr...