Jason Edward Kocol

Jason Kocol
Born	Jason Edward Kocol February 4, 1975 (1975-02-04) (age 40)
Nationality	American
Occupation	instrumentalist, composer, recording engineer, performer

Jason Edward Kocol (born February 4, 1975)^[1]^[2] is an American instrumentalist, composer, recording engineer and performer, active since age 10. His musical interests and offerings range from modern day orchestral music to death metal, electronic music to tango, noise to synthpop, etc. He performs on the following instruments: guitar, voice, bandoneon, mandolin, bass guitar, piano, trombone, tuba, drums and percussion. He is currently a guitarist and vocalist in Oakland-based death metal band Impaled.

Discography

1993 - The New President (self-titled demo tape) - guitar, vocals, twinkies
1994 - Mister Lazy (self-titled demo tape) - vocals, guitar, synthesizer
1997 - suburban: "Henri, Come Out...I Want to Play With You" (LP) - vocals, guitar, synthesizer, piano
1997-1999 - Century Quartet (various recordings totaling ~18 hours long) - vocals, guitar, synthesizer, sampler, mandolin, trombone, percussion, co-engineer
1998 - The Lane 29 Orchestra (self-titled LP) - composer
2000 - Assumed Name (self-titled LP) - everything
2000 - Jason Kocol: From That One Country (LP) - everything
2001 - qoqol (self-titled LP) - everything
2002 - Jason Kocol: Actual Sighs (LP) - everything
2002 - Kocolcainut (Cococainut and Jason Kocol split CD) - everything on Kocol material, vocals and co-arrangement on joint Cococainut/Kocol track
2002 - Puny Humans: No One Will Ever Understand Our Genious (LP) - guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals, accordion, synthesizer, kazoo, virtual glockenspiel, whistle
2003 - The Unicorn Stickers (self-titled demo) - synthesizer, vocals, co-engineer
2004 - Madera Road (self-titled LP) - guitar, vocals, mandolin, electric piano
2004 - The John Francis: Voyage of the Daring Cornelius (LP) - bandoneon, piano
2005 - Impaled: Death After Life (LP) - guitar, vocals, bandoneon
2006 - Ghoul: Splatterthrash (LP) - co-engineer, voice of "Billy"
2007 - Impaled: The Last Gasp (LP) - guitar, vocals, bandoneon, trombone, co-engineer
2009 - Necronomaccordion: Hoc Est Corpus - guitar, bandoneon

Filmography

2000 - Ballbreaker (short, silent) - composer
2001 - The Runaway (short, silent; dir. Brandon Thomas) - composer
2002 - Words From the Bible (short; dir. Christopher Bruce) - composer
2003 - The Crowd (short, animation, unfinished) - composer

Videography

2002 - Things Go Wrong (short) - co-director, co-editor, composer
2005 - Impaled: Preservation of Death (music video) - actor, editor
2008 - Impaled: G.O.R.E (music video) - actor, co-editor

References

↑ State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2005.
↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.

External links

Jason Kocol at AllMusic

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