William Kopecky

William Kopecky
Also known as	Bill Kopecky
Born	(1969-11-17) November 17, 1969
Origin	Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Genres	progressive rock, progressive metal, Heavy metal
Instrument(s)	Bass guitar, keyboard, sitar
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Musea, M.A.C.E., Cyclops, Mellow, Unicorn Digital

William Kopecky (born November 17, 1969) is an American musician from Racine, Wisconsin. He currently resides in France and 2011 work with Haiku Funeral featured his spoken-word delivery of dark poetry. He is known for playing bass, keyboards and sitar in the band Kopecky with his two brothers, Joe and Paul. He also contributed to numerous progressive rock acts, including Far Corner, Parallel Mind, Pär Lindh Project. Kopecky has put forward that the dark, moody at times oppressive atmosphere of the Yeti Rain project is influenced by storms. The heavy prog rock of Kopecky's Snarling Adjective Convention projects features group improvisation. In a 10-April 2011 interview, Kopecky stated that a new Far Corner album is underway, but may not come out on Cuneiform due to the label's already set release schedule.

Influences

Kopecky lists his influences as the following:

• Chris Squire
• Billy Sheehan
• Mick Karn
• Jaco Pastorius
• Yngwie Malmsteen
• Ravi Shankar
• Tripti Mukherjee
• Veena Chandra
• Ritual music of Tibetan monks

• Robert Smith
• Univers Zero
• Rush
• Miles Davis
• Robert Fripp
• Edgar Allan Poe
• J. G. Ballard
• Georges Bataille

• The Surrealists
• Ben Okri
• Hans Bellmer
• H. R. Giger
• Francis Bacon
• David Lynch
• Andrei Tarkovsky
• The Brothers Quay

Equipment

Bass guitars

• Axtra 4-string fretted and fretless custom basses
• 5-string Music Man Bongo
• 6-string Warwick Corvette
• Roland V-Bass.

Amplifiers

• Hartke 3500
• Ampeg SVT II Pro

Cabinets

• Ampeg 8x10
• Ampeg 4x10

Effects

• Boss effects pedals (flanger, phaser, chorus and digital delay)
• Red Llama distortion

Other equipment

• Boomerang loop device
• EBows

Selected discography

with Kopecky

• Kopecky (1999)
• Serpentine Kaleidoscope (2000)
• Orion (2001)
• Sunset Gun (2003)
• Blood (2006)

with Michael Angelo Batio

• Lucid Intervals and Moments of Clarity (2000)
• Lucid Intervals and Moments of Clarity Part 2 (2004)
• Hands Without Shadows (2005)

with C4

• Call to Arms (2001)

with Haiku Funeral

• Funeral Assassination in the Hashish Cathedral (2009)
• If God is a Drug (2010)

with Par Lindh Project

• Live in Iceland (2002)
• Live in Poland (2008)

with The Flyin' Ryan Brothers

• Legacy (2002)
• Blue Marble (2005)
• Totality (2008)

with The Bollenberg Experience

• If Only Stones Could Speak (2002)

with Truth Squad

• Superkiller (2003)

with Far Corner

• Far Corner (2004)
• Endangered (2007)
• Intermission (2009)

with Parallel Mind

• Colossus ADEA (2005)

with Silence the Freak

• Relations (2005)

with Yeti Rain

• Discarnate (2006)
• Nest of Storms (2008)
• III (2010)
• Stars Fall Darkly (2013)

with Dan Maske

• Progressive Rock Keyboard (2007)

with Dimension X

• Implications of a Genetic Defense (2007)

with Anja

• Leaving the Alley of Dead Trees (2007)

with Glass

• Live at Progman Cometh (2007)

with Snarling Adjective Convention

• Bluewolf Bloodwalk (2008)

References

• "Biography". William Kopecky. Retrieved 2008-08-17.

External links

• Official website
• Kopecky official website
• Yeti Rain official Myspace
• Haiku Funeral official Myspace
• Kopecky official Myspace
• Hikikomori Records