James has been looping for approximately 25 years using various guitars (baritone, fretless, bass and 8 string/baritone double neck guitar to name a few and various processing. James has performed and/orrecorded with musical bands Crevice, Pseudo Buddha, DreamLand and Honey Barbara.
Warren Rivera and James recorded in a Blue Star Art Complex silo. The subsequent release “Silo 10” exploited the natural reverb found that space. His music tends to explore ambient and post rock/industrial sounds.
James’s current project is a collaboration with musicians in Guadalajara, Mexico called, “Immersion”.
James has participated in various international loop festivals for approximately two and a half decades in Texas, California, Mexico, Switzerland, Asia andWales.
Mission Statement:
To promote looping locally and globally as a means for individual and collective creativity.
Partial discography:
Silo 10: s/t (2004)
Honey Barbara:
FeedLotLoopHole (Emigre Records, 1993)
I-10 & W. AVE. (Emigre,2001)
Wave Grass (Gifted Amateur Recordings 2015)
Reveries (Gifted Amateur Recordings 2020)
Pseudo Buddha:
Motive (1999) and 3 Months In Fat City (2002)
Dreamland: Underwater (2002)
Re: Cooperation: TransAtlantic Collaboration (2003)
Crevice: “2” (1995)/ Lullabies for Little Albert(1998)/Think of Pleasant Things (1999).