Devin Sarno

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DEVIN SARNO began "CRIB" in early 1990 as a solo bass sound project focusing on improvised subsonics. Over the course of a decade +, the music has evolved from high volume feedback experimentation to a sonic examination of the meditative properties of low-end drone music. (In 2003, the CRIB moniker was retired & Sarno now performs & records under his own name).
Influenced in part by composers such as: Phill Niblock, William Basinski, Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening Band) & Arvo Pärt, Sarnos music has been described as:
"A rich and genuinely beautiful music. If, on one hand, the sound of CRIB is one of foreboding, its resonance, on the other, is deeply seductive."
--(Motion UK).
DEVIN SARNO has toured both coasts of the United States, sharing concert bills with the likes of:
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Charles Gayle, Z'EV, Nels Cline, Foetus, Merzbow, Borbetomagus, Blonde Redhead, Pauline Oliveros, Masonna, Ben Harper, Gus Gus, William Hooker, Kato Hideki, Banyan & more.
SARNO's discography features over 10 solo (& duet) recordings including:
Full dynamics-frequency Spectrum CD Banned Production (2007)
Symphony 19 (w/ Celer) CD self-released (2007)
Heart Cell Memory (w/ G.E. Stinson) CD Squirrelgirl (2007)
Variations CD Banned Production (2005)
Buried On Bunker Hill (w/ Nels Cline) CD Ground Fault (2004)
Remnant CD True Classical CDs (2002)
Forward Back CD WIN Records (2000)
She is Church CD WIN Records (1998)
Edible Flowers (w/ Nels Cline) CD WIN Records (1998)
SARNO was a founding member of the seminal L.A. art rock band Waldo The Dog Faced Boy and in 1989, along with partner/producer Tom Grimley, he also co-founded the experimental imprint WIN Records, which was home to artists such as: Petra Haden, Charles Brown Superstar, Benett, Miss Murgatroid, The Centimeters & many more. As a bassist, SARNO has collaborated/recorded with many diverse acts including: Nels Cline, Thurston Moore, Vincent Gallo, Joseph Hammer, Joe Baiza, Mike Watt, Jack Brewer, Z'EV, Petra Haden, that dog, Abby Travis, Danny Frankel, G.E. Stinson, Jeff Gauthier, Tom Surgal, Upsilon Acrux, Carla Bozulich, Brandon LaBelle, and others.