18 Facts About Sean Malone

Sean Malone was an American musician who played primarily fretless bass guitar and Chapman Stick.

Sean Malone was most famous for his work with progressive metal band Cynic, in which he developed a strong partnership with the drummer Sean Reinert.

Sean Malone did a number of session jobs for various bands and musicians.

Early in his career, Sean Malone played as a session member for groups ranging from latin jazz and bossa nova to British pop music.

Sean Malone became Cynic's bassist quite unexpectedly; the band had a scheduled recording of their debut album, Focus in a studio in which Sean Malone was working as an assistant engineer, and session musician.

Sean Malone proved to have ideal musical chemistry with the group, and ended up touring for Focus in 1993.

Sean Malone made one album under his own name, Cortlandt, which was released in 1996 and reissued in 2007.

Sean Malone assembled and recorded the Gordian Knot debut, Gordian Knot, released in 1999.

Sean Malone re-joined Cynic with Reinert and Masvidal in May 2008 and recorded on their comeback album titled Traced in Air, which received very high critical acclaim.

In September 2011, Cynic confirmed that Sean Malone has recorded on their EP titled Carbon-Based Anatomy.

In Vancouver on July 6,2014, Sean Malone performed live on stage with Cynic for the first time in 20 years since the Focus era.

Sean Malone took a scholarly approach to the subject of pencils, and spent years documenting the cultural significance of the Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 pencil.

Sean Malone travelled around the US and Germany, interviewing both Eberhard Faber IV and the late Count Anton von Faber-Castell.

Sean Malone was known in pencil circles as the creator of both Blackwing Pages and Contrapuntalism.

Sean Malone was interviewed on camera for the 2015 documentary film No 2: The Story of the Pencil.

Sean Malone restored and archived the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Glenn Gould video recordings and documented his research about him.

Sean Malone published the article "Glenn Gould and the Nature of Competition" in Glenn Gould Magazine.

On September 3,2021, Masvidal publicly announced that Sean Malone died by suicide on December 7,2020.