please visit the high horse productions myspace page to listen to some of the other projects i'm involved with. those projects are more acoustic in nature.
"Experimental guitar work, implementing a diverse palette with focus on temporal & rhythmic elements.
Two minutes after the CD arrived was in my player, two more minutes to hear the first track, that was enough to see that this CD is interesting enough and need to be heard, that is why I am writing this one.
First of all the music can be considered as Ambient, but not that classical full of sounds ambient that we are used to. This music is calm and balanced, very clear and pure, simple as much as possible. That is the powerful combination that makes this work so nice! Listening to this CD your consciousness became still and relaxed, no other sound can bring your attention. The music has its own style that brings you in some magical but realistic world where you are calm and can collect your thoughts."
"Badger’s equipment setup does Frippertronics proud, wherein his guitar is a guitar as well as a synthesizer, loop generator, and sample trigger. His music openly adopts an “ambient” tag although there’s definitely more rhythmic structure here. Badger frequently composes pieces—“Code,” “Vault,” “Egret”—that are beeping, rotating, floating rock’n’roll satellites, merging the tapped notes and chords of the late Michael Hedges with the technical arsenal behind Vernon Reid’s six-string screams and whispers. More interesting, especially knowing one set of hands generated this work spontaneously, are the noises and notes that move beyond the guitar realm. The arrangements and tweaking of “Beat On” and “Magnetism” create a virtual string section; “Tremble” adds illusory hurdy-gurdy and muted horns while “Flame” evokes a field of nighttime crickets. The interlude “Old Spiders” may be Badger’s technological zenith, an angular piece that evokes a large modern orchestra.
. . . Badger’s work is too pleasing and—despite the absence of any overdubs—polished to ignore. (AB)"
". . . wonderful ambient music live, and using mostly incoherent pieces of gear, incorporating both primitive and modern equipment that’s not necessarily designed or intended to go together. He’s created beautiful and rich ambient tones, infused with rhythms by using subtle pulses .. which create an amazing soundscape that drives at a calm pace.”Beat on” is my favorite track off of his new album, Metasonic. Metasonic was created solely on a single guitar, and ends up sounding nothing like a guitar at many points on the album. I love guys who can pull this off without sounding trite or repetitive. I’m really blown away that this whole album was created on guitar – there are parts that leave me puzzled, as I don’t know how in the hell he gets some of the sounds out.
. . . This whole album was recorded live without any overdubs. Some parts of the album lead me to believe that it’s a bit improvisational, but doesn’t come off sounding confused at all. Overall the album is really wonderful and a unique piece of art."
Hola from AIO in Miami! Hong Kong, Osaka and Tokyo stand up! Just to let you know if you're in the area to check out, Arepaz Immigrante Orchestra founder, La Mano Fria art exhibition just started at Beams in Hong Kong, as well as a series of smaller exhibitions throughout Japan such as Tokyo (Harajuku & Shibuya) and Osaka (Shinsaibashi). Dates for all 4 are: 4|10 - 4|26 .. at Hong Kong (Causeway Bay) at Beams T.
And the mini exhibitions are the same dates: 4|09 - Golden Week.. in Tokyo Beams T Harajuku and Shibuya 4|10 - Golden Week.. at Osaka Beams T in Shinsaibashi. A busy year for Beta Bodega Coalition as we celebrate our 10 year anniversary of founding the first record label! Paz y Arepaz!
OUT NOW on Idiosyncratics Records : Phil Maggi - Blue FIelds in Paramount CD
Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a stricly limited to 300 copies ekopack edition with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek.
The next stricke from the PurePureMusic Label!! A fantastic 4 Track E.P. with minimal, techno Pieces from Steve Haze, ConnexX, Wasteman and The Thomsen!!!
Hey Jonathan, I hope all is well. I wanted to let you know that the new ZELAZOWA full length album "Elephants On A Mousehunt" will be released on Saturday, January, 17th through CDBaby. com and all major digital distribution sites. In anticipation of its release, we will be posting a new single from the album on our myspace page every week for 4 weeks. Please be sure to give them a listen at:
If you are in the Philadelphia area, join us for the CD release party that night (Saturday, 1/17) at The Khyber at 10 PM. There are plenty of tour dates to follow, so please check the calendar.