- David Belmont
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David Belmont (born March 11, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is a guitarist and composer.
His work has spanned a broad range of genres from ambient music to rock-based world fusion music to Avant-garde jazz. While focusing mainly on original instrumental compositions, Belmont's music has featured eclectic cover material; e.g., a New Age arrangement of the Rolling Stones' Moonlight Mile.
He first came to prominence in the early 1970s with the highly-rated acid-rock NYC band Charley Quasar – his brother, Joe, also played guitar in the band.
Belmont continued extensive musical activity in Manhattan's various cultural scenes. He has composed scores for film, theater, poetry, mime and dance. His work includes collaborations with poet Jose Angel Figueroa (Transfigurations, performed at Joseph Papp's Anspacher Theatre); mime/dancer/director Marc Maislen of Phasa Beam Arts (improvisations at the Cambridge (MA) River Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors and the Counterweight Festival, NYC; Angels Without Wings, Ebert Artists House, NYC; Ellipsis, Long Island University's Triangle Theatre, commissioned by Isaac Asimov for the Futures Conference; and holographer Rick Silberman (Solid Deceptions, Museum of Holography, NYC).
Belmont has independently produced 19 albums of his work.
Recent credits include co-writing with Josh Neretin the film score of Fred Newman's Nothing Really Happens (Castillo Productions, 2003), arranging the music, with Michael Walsh, and co-creating the sound design, with Michael Klein, of Fred Newman's Safe At Third: Josh Gibson Don't Bunt (2009) and Heiner Müller's The Task (2009) for main stage productions at the Castillo Theatre (W. 42nd St., NYC). Belmont regularly co-leads Live Music Continuum workshops with Mary Abrams of Moving Body Resources. He continues to produce music in association with various figures in New York.
Belmont's music can be heard regularly in the US on John Diliberto's syndicated radio program Echoes.
Discography
- WindWater Journal Entries (2010)
- Postmodern Panache (2007)
- Invisible Cities (2007)
- Continuum Music, Volume I (2005)
- Nothing Really Happens Soundtrack (2003)
- Live at the Temple of Soul (2002)
- WindWater II: Portraits and Landscapes (2001)
- WindWater Excursions (2000)
- Cures for St. Valentine’s Blues (1999)
- Blues in Progress, A Shot of Rhythm 'n Blues (1997)
- Not for Resale (1995)
- Blues in Progress, Live at Castillo (1992)
- Blues in Progress (1989
- After Some Time (1986)
- Echoes (1979)
- Kieran Liscoe Rhythm Band, Live at Max's (1979, bootleg)
- Mecca-nization (1977)
- Sing A Song (1976, EP)
- Charley Quasar, Live at Folk City (1974, bootleg)
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Categories:- Living people
- People from New York City
- 1952 births
- American composers
- American experimental guitarists
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