biographical info
David J. Clark is a tenacious drummer, multi- instrumentalist, vocalist, band leader, and Gemini and Porcupine Award winning composer who has created and played free jazz with Fred Frith, heavy metal with the Nihilist Spasm Band, Malian griot funk with Mansa Sissoko in West Africa, space rock with the Dinner is Ruined band, bongo fury with Neil Peart of Rush, classic Canadian prog-rock with the Rheostatics, Bata music with master Bata musician Gilberto Morales Chiong in Matanzas, Cuba, deconstruction with John Oswald, folk-rock with the Mountainside band, etherial musings with Jane Siberry, free form free styling big band freak out with the WoodChoppers Association, classical music Runcible Spoon, folk music with Tannis Slimmon and Lewis Melville, punk madness with the legendary author Jim Carroll, parade jammed with the Sun Ra Arkestra, soundtrack work for Martin Scorsese and Nick Deponcier, and pop music with Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip to mention but a few. Dave is the leader of the WoodChopper's Association, the Woodpeckers and the Woodshed Orchestra.
influences
Duke Ellington
Ivo Poposov
Lewis Melville
NRBQ
the Band