Ches Smith is an American musician, whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone .
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He recorded and performed an album of his own solo percussion pieces entitled Congs for Brums (2006).[1] In 2010 he released Noise to Men .[2]
Smith was born in San Diego , California , and raised in Sacramento .[3] After studying philosophy at the University of Oregon , he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995.[3] He studied composition, improvisation and percussion with Fred Frith , Pauline Oliveros , William Winant and Alvin Curran .[3] In 1999, he toured with Mr. Bungle .[4]
Ches Smith.
As leader/co-leader
2006 – Congs for Brums (Free Porcupine Society)
2010 – Noise to Men (Self Released)
2010 – Finally Out of My Hands (Skirl)
2012 – Psycho Predictions (88)
2013 – Hammered (Clean Feed)
2014 – International Hoohah (ForTune)
2016 – The Bell (ECM)
2018 – A Complete and Tonal Disaster (Self Released)
2021 – Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
2022 – Interpret It Well (Pyroclastic)
2024 – Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
As sideman
with Tim Berne
with Trevor Dunn 's trio-convulsant
with Moe! Staiano
2001 – The Lateness of Yearly Presentations
with Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra!
2006 – An Inescapable Siren Within Earshot Distance Therein and Other Whereabouts
2007 – Two Rooms of Uranium Inside 83 Markers
with Graham Connah
2001 – The Only Song We Know
with Good For Cows
2001 – Good for Cows
2003 – Cows Less Than or Equal To
2004 – Bebop Fantasy
2008 – 10th Concert Anniversary
2010 – Audumla
with Theory Of Ruin
2002 – Counter–Culture Nosebleed
2003 – Frontline Posterchild
with Mitch Marcus Quintet
with Lou Harrison
2003 – Drums Along the Pacific
with John Zorn
2003 – Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik)
2016 – The Painted Bird (Tzadik)
2018 – The Urmuz Epigrams (Tzadik)
2018 – In a Convex Mirror (Tzadik)
2020 – Les Maudits (Tzadik)
2021 – Heaven and Earth Magick (Tzadik)
2022 – Incerto (Tzadik)
2022 – Suite For Piano (Tzadik)
with Xiu Xiu
with David Torn
2019 – Sun Of Goldfinger (ECM)
2020 – Sun Of Goldfinger (Congratulations to You) (Screwgun)
2022 - Ozmir (Screwgun)
with Secret Chiefs 3
with Aaron Novik
2004 – Gubbish: Notations in Tonations
2006 – Kipple: Flashes of Irrational Happiness
with Redressers
2004 – To Each According...
with Carla Bozulich /Evangelista
2009 – Prince of Truth
2011 – In Animal Tongue
2014 – I'm Gonna Stop Killing
with Will Bernard Trio
2005 – Directions to My House
with Fever Pitch
2005 – Just Drums 2 Project
with Sean Hayes
2006 – Big Black Hole and the Little Baby Star
with Todd Sickafoose
with Ben Goldberg Quintet
2006 – The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact
with 7 Year Rabbit Cycle
with Fred Frith , Darren Johnston, Devin Hoff and Larry Ochs
with Marc Ribot 's Ceramic Dog
with Leonid Fedorov , Vladimir Volkov , John Medeski , Marc Ribot
with Dave Holland
with Moonface
2018 – This One's for the Dancer & This One's for the Dancer's Bouquet