Erik Sanko


Erik Sanko is a bass player from New York who has played in The Lounge Lizards and currently active in Skeleton Key.

Biography

In the past he also worked with notable musicians including Marc Ribot, John Cale, Yoko Ono, Suzanne Vega, Jim Carroll, Gavin Friday, They Might Be Giants, The Melvins, James Chance and the Contortions, Danny Elfman, The Kronos Quartet and members of Enon and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Besides being a musician, he's also a visual artist who creates marionettes. Erik Sanko is married and works with visual artist/set designer/director Jessica Grindstaff. His work has been reviewed in The Village Voice and The New York Times. In 2007 he, together with Jessica Grindstaff, founded Phantom Limb, a multi-media based theater company for which Erik is primarily composer and puppet maker.

Discography

;With John Cale
;With Jim Carroll
;With Anna Domino
;With The Fertile Crescent
;With Gavin Friday
;With The Lounge Lizards
;With John Lurie
;With Mono Puff
;With Seigen Ono
;With Yoko Ono
;With Skeleton Key
;With They Might Be Giants
;With Suzanne Vega
;With John Waite