In his twenty-year career, Texan bassist Tom Blancarte has cultivated a demented and visceral instrumental practice that transcends the experimental bass canon and pushes improvisatory art to new extremes. As a member of various experimental music groups as well as as a solo performer, he has toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan, and North America, playing venues that range from dingy squatted basements to international festivals.
For over a decade, Texan bassist Tom Blancarte was a key contributor to New York’s creative music scene, both as a freelance performer and as a member of bands such as the electro-acoustic jazz ensemble the Peter Evans Ensemble, the banjo-shred power trio Seabrook Power Plant, New Timbralist free jazz noise trio Totem, an eerie post-apocalyptic duo with wife Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (The Home of Easy Credit), improv doom tuba trio The Gate and Danish post-punk improv quartet Sweet Banditry.
Today, he lives and works in Denmark, where he became reacquainted with the euphonium (his first instrument), as well as starting the Denmark-based record label Marsken Records. He continues to tour internationally with a variety of groups, including the Copenhagen-based quartet Tactical Maybe and the New York-based quartet Ephemeris, as well as in ad hoc formations. He also works as an educator and researcher, teaching at various conservatories in Denmark and as a part-time lecturer at Aalborg University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in jazz performance from the University of North Texas and an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in performance from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen.
