Aaron has performed with/been featured on recordings by:
The K Word, Erykah Badu, Maxwell, The Silent Press, Someone Just Like You, Virginia Folk Jazz Trio, Sol Creech, Stay Seventeen, Bad Eggs, Hurricane Pronto, Craig David, Blackout Entertainment, Fruits and Vegetables, Berry Paris Quintet, Shapiro, Red Clay River, Willchase as well as countless film and television scores.
Aaron can currently be seen performing and heard on recordings by:
Red Clay River, The Berry Paris Quintet
Fruits and Vegetables, Way Shape Or Form and
Someone Just Like You. Many more to be listed soon.
Influences
Marc Ribot, Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo, Wes Montgomery, Jeff Parker, Geoff Farina, Jimi Hendrix, J Robbins, Ian Mackaye and Guy Piciotto, Sam Zurich, John Fahey, Leo Kottke and pretty much anyone else who picks up a guitar and does something interesting with it.
Sounds Like
Nickel, steel, and nylon pulled taught and manipulated with fingers.
"Born in the last month of the last year of the 1970s, Aaron was brought into this world as the age of disco was being ushered out. Punk, new wave, and the like were being given the industry treatment and filtered into every home via MTV and radio. Intrigued by these new sights and sounds, he showed a gravitation toward ,and understanding of, all forms of music at a very young age. Upon discovering an old guitar of his father's in the attic of their home he immediately took it as his own and it was on those rusty strings that the love affair with guitar would begin. That obsession would continue past his early years of teaching himself to play by ear through his middle and high school years of formal lessons and garage bands, and into his stint at Berklee College of Music, and as a session and touring musician in the late 1990s.
By the time he returned home to Virginia in 2000 his skills were sharply honed. He had developed a signature sound all his own combining the ferocity of the underground punk and hardcore scenes where he cut his teeth, the hooks of his parent's Beach Boys and Motown records, the experimental soundscapes of New York avante garde, and the beauty of the ballads deeply rooted in the mountains of his home. In 2001 this sound would find a name when a chance meeting at a music store prompted the formation of The K Word. And although they would attain little commercial success in their six years together, the constant touring, eclecticism, and mesmerizing live shows would leave a dedicated fan base wherever they would play. These performances were a virtual head on collision of musicianship and emotion often closing with a tidal wave of feedback and sound that would come to a crashing hault releasing both the band and audience members from their entranced state. The band would dissolve in 2006 as the years of spinning their wheels with no help from the industry had left them battered and exhausted.
Not content to stop there Aaron went on to form The Silent Press with ex members of The K Word and their long time tour mates Born With A Tail. This time around the band took a more traditional approach to the songwriting and the new direction paid off with fans quickly growing in number. This band was to be short lived, though, due to divulging interests and the onset of adulthood for some of the members.
Since then Aaron has kept himself very busy musically. Another short project with ex K Word members ,Hurrican Pronto, would fizzle out before it even began prompting Aaron to step back from the spotlight and opt instead to back up his plethora of musical friends. From the dark alternative appalachian sound of Red Clay River, to the swirly pop of Fruits and Vegetebles, the experimental jazz improv of the Berry Paris Quintet, the pop punk of Someone Just Like You or Stay Seventeen, or the indie-electro stylings of Way Shape Or Form Aaron is always trying to find new avenues to express himself and help others find and release the sounds in their heads." -copyright 2008 TDLA PR
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