Brian Chippendale (born July 22, 1973)[1] is an American musician and artist, known as the drummer and vocalist for the experimental noise rock band Lightning Bolt and for his graphic art.[2] Chippendale is based in Providence, Rhode Island.[1]
Brian Chippendale | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | July 22, 1973 Newburgh, New York, U.S. |
| Origin | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
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| Occupation(s) | Singer, drummer, comic book artist, poster art |
| Instrument(s) | Drums, vocals |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Thrill Jockey, Load Records, Corleone, Bulb, Ooo Mau Mau |
Brian plays an assortment of drums usually decorated with prints he makes himself. He uses two ride cymbals as crash rides and a Ludwig snare drum.
Early life and education
editChippendale was born July 22, 1973, in Newburgh, New York, and was raised in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3][4][5] Chippendale is also an artist and attended printmaking classes at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the late 1990s through 2000, but did not graduate.[6][7]
Music
editAs a vocalist for Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer, Chippendale eschews the usual microphone stand and conventional microphone, instead using a contact microphone. Chippendale often warbles or makes nonsensical sounds into the microphone, so the vocals typically come out extremely distorted and incomprehensible. More recently, Chippendale has used a Line 6 delay pedal to delay and repeat his vocals while drumming.[8]
Chippendale participated as drummer 77 in the Boredoms' 77 Boadrum performance which occurred on July 7, 2007, at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn.
Chippendale performed drums on Björk's 2007 album Volta and her 2008 charity single "Náttúra".[9] He also did a remix for Björk's single "Declare Independence" under the alias Black Pus.
Chippendale is part of the duo Wasted Shirt with Ty Segall, releasing their debut album, Fungus II, in 2020.[10]
Graphic art
editChippendale created the album art for all Lightning Bolt releases.[11] In October 2006, Chippendale released the comic book Ninja, an art book and comic that incorporates simple action comics he drew as a child with more surreal work drawn as an adult.[12] In 2007 he released Maggots, which was drawn ten years previously but had never been released. Maggots is drawn over a Japanese book catalog, so Japanese characters appear in all the spaces that are not inked in by his pen.[13] His next graphic novel, "If n' Oof", was published on June 30, 2010.
In June 2010 an exhibit Fruiting Bodies of Chippendale's artwork opened at the Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn.[14] Since May 2011, Chippendale has published a monthly comic in Mothers News, a monthly newspaper published in Providence, Rhode Island.
In February 2016, Chippendale published another graphic novel with Drawn and Quarterly entitled Puke Force. In 2016, an article entitled "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time" in Rolling Stone magazine ranked Brian Chippendale as number 91.[15]
Chippendale currently shares a large industrial studio space in Providence with his wife, Jungil Hong, which they call the "Hilarious Attic".[16][17] Chippendale and Hong have a son.[2]
Discography
editLightning Bolt
edit- Lightning Bolt (1999)
- Ride the Skies (2001)
- Wonderful Rainbow (2003)
- Hypermagic Mountain (2005)
- Earthly Delights (2009)
- Oblivion Hunter (2012)
- Fantasy Empire (2015)
- Sonic Citadel (2019)
Black Pus
edit- Black Pus 1 (2005)
- Black Pus 2 (2006)
- Black Pus 3: Metamorpus (2006)
- Black Pus 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus (2008)
- Black Pus Zero: Ultimate Beat Off (2009)
- Primordial Pus (2011)
- Pus Mortem (2012)
- All My Relations (2013)
- Black Pus split LP with Oozing Wound (2014)
- Def Vesper (2020)
Boredoms
edit- 77Boadrum (2007)
Wasted Shirt
edit- Fungus II (2020)
References
edit- ^ a b "Black Pus". NTS Radio. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
Brian Chippendale (born July 22, 1973) is a musician and graphic artist based out of Providence, Rhode Island.
- ^ a b Reynolds, Janet (December 28, 2017). "Brian Chippendale: Drummer, Graphic Artist & More". Take Magazine. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
While at school, Chippendale met his wife, Korean-American artist Jungil Hong, who was studying ceramics. "We produced a pretty cute little kid," Chippendale says. "So far, he's gotten the best of us."
- ^ James-Wilson, Matthew (Fall 2017). "Brian Chippendale". FORGE. Issue 18: Sacrifice. p. 79. Retrieved February 1, 2019 – via Issu.
- ^ "Brian Chippendale". Modern Drummer Magazine. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
He studied saxophone growing up near Philadelphia
- ^ "Brian Chippendale". NetWorks Rhode Island. June 16, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
Born in 1973, Brian Chippendale grew up around the Philadelphia area.
- ^ "Printmaking". Our RISD. December 12, 2013. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ^ "Collection: Brian Chippendale". RISD Museum. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
Brian Chippendale, b. 1973, American, (RISD student, 1991–2000)
- ^ Licht, Alan (January 12, 2005). "Lightning Bolt". The Wire No. 262. The Wire Archive. Archived from the original on February 24, 2007. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
- ^ "Volta is the name and the date is..." Bjork.com. March 2, 2007. Archived from the original on March 7, 2007. Retrieved March 2, 2007.
- ^ Greene, Linnie (March 2, 2020). "Wasted Shirt Fungus II". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
- ^ Sisario, Ben (December 2, 2004). "The Art of Noise". Spin. Archived from the original on June 12, 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2007.
- ^ Wolk, Douglas (February 14, 2010). "Ninja". Salon. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ^ "Maggots by Brian Chippendale". MadInkBeard. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ^ "2010 Brian Chippendale". Cinders Gallery. Archived from the original on June 8, 2010. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ^ Weingarten, Christopher R.; Dolan, Jon; Diehl, Matt; Micallef, Ken; Ma, David; Smith, Gareth Dylan; Wang, Oliver; Heller, Jason; Runtagh, Jordan (March 31, 2016). "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ Cougy, Jean Luc (December 3, 2015). "Providence. Fracas psychédélique au MIAM". En revenant de l'expo ! (in French). Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ^ "Down the Rabbit Hole with Brian Chippendale". The Comics Journal. June 25, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2016.