Usually just electric bass guitar and/or upright bass, loop pedal, harmonica, occasional voice. ------------------------------------------------------------------- There is also The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet.
Influences
"For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in." --Hugo Ball
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Beethoven, Mingus, Eno, Godard, Edgar Meyer, Bjork, Reich, Harpo Marx, Joao Gilberto, Silver Mt. Zion, Philip Glass, Nietzsche, Sigur Ros, Miles, Stravinski, Low, Godspeed,
Eluvium,
Monk, Adorno, Jimi, Nina, 2pac, Aristotle, Coltrane, Zeppelin, Primus, Tarentell, Van Morrison, Tool, Saul Williams, Wooten, Radiohead, Dali, Jaco, Gibran, Virginia Rodrigues, Toni Negri, Pärt, Tortoise, Mahler, Kaki King, Stanley Jordan, Maude, JFJO, Chopin, Lynch, Ani Difranco, Robert Johnson, Matmos, TS Eliot, Bulgarian Women's Choir, Can, Rumah Sakit, Johanna Newsom, Aphex Twin, Ray Brown, Dylan, Arthur Russell, Yes, Stanley Clarke, Uakti, Angelo Badalamenti, Tom Waits, J5, Beans, Silvio Rodriguez, Funkadelic, Big Bill Broonzy, Rothko, Autechre, Sly, Bourdieu, Wagner...
------------------------------------------------------------------- AND I GET BY WTIH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS:
The Drift,
Sandro Perri,
Pillars and Tongues,
The Ascent of Everest,
Nat Baldwin,
Zoe Keating,
Roots of Orchis,
Baby Teeth Thieves,
Scout Niblett,
Stationary Odyssey,
His Life Not Mine,
Dilute,
Bonfire Madigan,
Lazarus,
By the End of Tonight,
Create (!),
The Six Parts Seven,
Castanets,
Mike Tamburo,
Kayo Dot,
Eliot Lipp,
... I continue to be grateful for all the help I get from my mom and sisters.
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"Omnia mea mecum porto"
Sounds Like
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." --Thelonious Monk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the
questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a
very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live
everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without
noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
--Rainer Maria Rilke
Equal parts ambient and virtuosic, melancholic and playful, CJ Boyd’s bass playing melts glaciers, creating a sea of low, flowing rhythms, while also supplying melodies that soar over the ocean to dizzy the sun in its path. Waves of bass loops are garnished with harmonica drones and constant improvisational exploration. Deep-sea-diving for the hungry and alone. While certainly following in the footstep of great bassists like Mingus and Meyer, Boyd’s aesthetic sensibility also seeks to wed the minimalism of Reich and Riley with what might be called the maximalism of Beethoven's chamber music. Add some Moondog, Authur Russell, Godspeed, Eluvium. But with the improvisational prowess culled from jazz. Not a "bassplayer" in the usual sense of the word. But something refreshing and impressive—with fingers that only know how to dance to the deepest tunes.
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We are finally ready to start promoting my 'I Surrender' single with my album, 'Ella Trip' coming right after -yey!! What d'ya think to the video teaser?
Yeah, my brother Caleb told me about Extra Life a few months ago. I really like Blackmail Blues. Haven't listened to By the End of Tonight as much, but I am pretty sure they did a split with Tera Melos that was pretty great. Tera Melos was the best band I saw at free anti-sxsw stuff this spring.
hope you made it "safely" over the untroubled waters and were no further molested by nasty ladies. found the key, all good here. take good care and see you in spring. xox
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