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Ches Smith
San Diego, United States
Ches Smith is credited on 77 releases across 77 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 2001–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

77
Pressings credited
77
Albums
3
Decades active
35
In collections
Biography
Ches Smith is an American musician, whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone. He recorded and performed an album of his own solo percussion pieces entitled Congs for Brums (2006). In 2010 he released Noise to Men.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
77 releases · 77 albums · active 2001–2026
- Performance · 154
- Other credits · 20
Studios: Avatar Studios · Forking Paths Studio · Brooklyn Recording · De Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Nina
2013

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs Of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
2020

Always
2012

La Forêt
2005

A Promise
2003

Girl With Basket Of Fruit
2019

This One's For The Dancer & This One's For The Dancer's Bouquet
2018

In Animal Tongue
2011

Women As Lovers
2008

Xaphan (Book Of Angels Volume 9)
2008

Sister Phantom Owl Fish
2004

Knife Play
2002

Asterisms
2024

Connection
2023

Bending Bridges
2012

Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini - The Severed Right Hands Of The Last Men
2009

Book Of Horizons
2004

Your Turn
2013

Party Intellectuals
2008
Frequent collaborators
- Xiu Xiu
- Ceramic Dog
- Secret Chiefs 3
- Theory Of Ruin
- Lyenn
- Evangelista (2)
- Tim Berne
- Tim Berne's Snakeoil
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