Gino Robair

Gino Robair (* 1963 in Riverside ( California)) is an American percussionist, jazz and improvisation musician and composer.

Robair studied composition at the University of Redlands and at Mills College. As a percussionist he was a student of Ron George, William Kraft, William Winant and Eddie Prévost. He worked with musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Tom Waits, John Butcher, LaDonna Smith, Otomo Yoshihide, Eugene Chadbourne, Liz Allbee, John Zorn and Nina Hagen and is a founding member of the groups Splatter Trio and Pink Mountain.

The early 2000s was its improvisational opera I Norton to the life of the self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States, Joshua Norton, a known in Robairs hometown of San Francisco eccentric. A video about the design and performance of the work was produced in 2006.

Robair looked at more than 80 albums as a percussionist, sometimes guitarist, keyboard player or musician on electro-acoustic instruments ( synthesizers, theremin, tape ) with.

Discography

  • Splatter Trio, 1990
  • Splatter Trio: Anagrams, 1992
  • Splatter Trio: Jump or Die, 1994
  • Buddy system: Selected duos and trios with Dave Barrett, Myles Boisen, John Butcher, Carla Kihlstedt, Tim Perkis, Dan Plonsey, LaDonna Smith, Oluyemi Thomas, Otomo Yoshihide, 1995-98
  • Crepuscular with Miya Masaoka Music, Tom Nunn, 1998
  • Unity in Multiplicity with Oluyemi Thomas, 1998
  • Duets (1997) with Anthony Braxton, 1999
  • 12 Milagritos with John Butcher, Matthew Sperry, 2000
  • Guerrilla Mosaics with John Butcher, Miya Masaoka, 2002
  • New Oakland Burr with John Butcher, 2004
  • Sputtering with Birgit Ulher, 2005
  • PopeWAFFEN with Ezramo, David Fenech, Wendelin Büchler, Argo Ulva, 2010
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