Jon Sonnenberg: Vocals, Synthesizers, Programming, Production, Laboratory Experiments;
Amanda Spayd: Backing Vocals, Synthesizers for Performance
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God, odd nerdrum, friends, family, bob newhart, pete and pete, terry gilliam, david bowie, and also the trees, lali puna
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House of Wires, Pivot Clowj, the Normal, Fad Gadget, Depeche Mode, I Start Counting, The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Kissing the Pink, John Foxx, Ultravox, Gary Numan, nothing that you have ever heard, like everybody else
Two new CD's for purchase through our store or through iTunes: (CLICK THE ALBUM IMAGE BELOW FOR A DIRECT LINK TO THE iTUNES STORE)
Acoustic Selections and the Prometheus Project ;
Our official website is www.artoftravelogue.com. You may read about us there or purchase merchandise, including the new album, Acoustic Selections. Come visit us soon!
Thank you for your work on the special Travelogue edition of 'Wondertime'. It is now streaming on our Myspace page and should be available for free download shortly.
Thanks for the add! I have all of your cds...You are an inspiring genius! Please make some more harder edge stuff some day like Pivot ClowJ for your industrial fans!
Jon takes risks adding obscure and invented instruments, acoustic and otherwise, or even things that aren't exactly instruments but become such in Jon's hands.
I think the tracks that stood out most to me were the older ones from House of Wires and Pivot Clowj. I think there was only one track I was completely unfamiliar with and that was Freedom Is The Edging To The Garden On The Right. I thought it felt like something you would hear in a concept album or rock opera.
I had heard Jon play many of the Travelogue songs live and since he likes to change things up quite a bit live with various instruments and such there were parts in the songs that were expected though surprises came in those as well because I have never heard Jon Sonnenberg music without any electronic parts. I really like the dark element to Jon's writing and I think that came out well in these selections. I guess one song that I enjoyed picking apart the most was Home with the use of the Jaw or Mouth Harp. That is an instrument I just recently picked up and always am amazed when it is played and played well since I haven't yet figured out how to play well (but I have figured out how to play it!)
I had built up a lot of anticipation because I knew that this would include a lot more than a piano or acoustic guitar. Jon brought about a large number of classical acoustic instruments that one wouldn't normally see in todays pop music scene and his inventions pop up in this release as well with the Acoustic Rhythm Machine.
It has been two years in the making but the end product is worth the wait. I feel Jon probably put his best effort by taking his time on this record. Fans of his bands would be foolish not to pick this up if for no other reason than to compare the electronic sound versus the acoustic sound. I for one found this to be a very interesting piece in the translation from electronic to acoustic.
