Jefferson Airplane, ELP, Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster, and the more atmospheric moments of King Crimson and Pink Floyd
Sounds Like
"The overall effect is a spacious elegance in which Block confidently produces a gravity defying mixture of cosmic pastorale and post-art rock electronics."
Stars End
"It has odd-meter workouts that bring to mind no one in particular but Block himself. Not only are his compositions good, but the sounds he produces from his synthesizers are rich, organic and fresh."
Expose
"In the absence of conventional percussion, Block utilizes synthetic sounds bearing no semblance to impacts in a rhythmic mode, generating engaging beats that function as tempos while remaining part of the electronic flow."
Sonic Curiosity
Jonathan Block has been recording and releasing electronic music for over 20 years. He created the term "progressive ambient music" to describe his explorations of the ambient, space and progressive domains. Block was a founding member of the musical collective the Objective Music Coalition in 1983 with other musicians who were interested in developing an applied creative practice.
Block's first CD, Synthetic Block, was released on Mindspore in 1998. Subsequent CDs have been released on labels such as Hypnos and Gears of Sand. His music has also appeared on numerous compilations, and has been featured on many radio shows, including Echoes and Star's End. Block has also performed and recorded with Dave Fulton, APK and Ben Fleury-Steiner.
He is also a published poet, with poems that have appeared in journals around the world, including Phoebe, The NRG Anthology,
The Chiron Review and Riverrun.
How are you, Jonathan Block? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to wish you a happy halloween & hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can Hear it right Now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo adios for now! Pablo
High! Pablo here, reporting from Inner Space to wish you a great 2009! (we interrupt this comment with a brief announcement): Pablo's first new album in 5 years,"Take Two," Is Here & Now! -16 tracks of sugar coated insanity - Stop by my page to hear 4 new songs! (P.S. the new album is best appreciated on a higher plane....;)) God bless!!! P
Thanks Mr. Block! Your progressive ambient music is very interesting. What is this strange instrument, an electric flute?? Is Jimmy giuffre an inspiration to you?
Sorry for now my page as no sample to listen, i'm trying to get the rights of some songs from "Night Danse" and "The train and River" 70s albums.
I'm glad to see you on my "add" list. It's always good to see a hypnos forum regular, particularly one who makes interesting music. Best to you, and I'm glad to be able to learn about your new projects through this medium.
Many thanks for your add and support, welcome aboard!
If you've got a little time left, please kill some by listening to the genre of Progressive Dance :-)
By the way, if you happen to like VDGG, A Dance Mix of Man Erg(!) is under construction! Check out my blog space... :) Since I updated it tonight it's really fresh :-)
