Year: 2003
Time: 63:22 + 57:49
Size: 145,5 MB + 132,7 MB
Label: Abstract Logix BC-11-2
Styles: Progressive Rock/Eclectic Prog
Art: Full
Tracks Listing:
CD1
1. Voluntary Dreaming - 7:20
2. Ritual Sticks - 5:55
3. Visual Purple - 2:29
4. The Inward Spiral - 3:17
5. Cleopatra's Needle - 2:38
6. Hawk Dreaming - 4:42
7. Aeon - 5:05
8. Abrasax - 7:11
9. Mythos - 19:10
10. Voluntary Dreaming (Alternate Mix)- 5:30
CD2
1. Still Smiling - 3:12
2. Signless - 3:19
3. Snakey Jake - 3:51
4. Bottoms Up - 3:27
5. Lucid Mirrors Of Eroticism - 3:15
6. Memory & Imagination - 24:28
7. Echoes On Echoes - 4:58
8. Stones Of Precious Water - 5:22
9. Indigo Runes - 5:51
Barry Cleveland's guitar playing is rooted in progressive and psychedelic rock, branching into ambient, experimental, funk, and various "world music" styles-enhanced by cutting-edge electronics and unorthodox playing techniques. He's also a deft engineer and producer with an idiosyncratic and sometimes iconoclastic approach to recording and mixing. Cleveland's early work was ambient and impressionistic, and his last recording explored instrumental world fusio-but Hologramatron pushes multiple musical envelopes simultaneously. Largely a response to contemporary social, political, and even spiritual realities, Hologramatron may be viewed as a modern-day "protest album" that draws inspiration from a musical continuum spanning art rock, psychedelia, avant-metal, ambient, global fusion, trance, and fun-with two early-'60s pop covers tossed in for kicks. Cleveland is all about sound-from his guitar playing to his compositions to his production-and it is the deeply layered, highly nuanced, and cutting-edge sonics that unify this wildly eclectic material. Hologramatron features virtuoso bass innovator Michael Manring, drummer and percussionist Celso Alberti (Steve Winwood, Airto Moriera), and pedal-steel guitarist Robert Powell (Peter Gabriel, Jackson Browne), along with "avant-cabaret" vocalist Amy X Neuburg, and guest vocalists Harry Manx and Deborah Holland (Animal Logic). Additional musicians include Turkish electro-acoustic guitarist Erdem Helvacioglu, percussionists Gino Robair and Rick Walker, and Michael Masley, a.k.a. the infamous "Artist General." In addition to playing acoustic and electric 6- and 12-string guitars on Hologramatron, Cleveland utilized a prototype of the revolutionary Moog Guitar and both acoustic and electric GuitarViols-hybrid bowed instruments
tuned like a guitar-along with myriad effects processors and alternative playing devices such as a Chinese erhu bow, Masley Bowhammers, and the Ebow. Other than the two covers-Malvina Reynolds' anti-nuke anthem "What Have They Done to the Rain" and Joe Meek's iconic "Telstar"-Cleveland wrote all of the songs on Hologramatron. Bonus tracks include remixes by Evan Schiller ("Lake of Fire") and Forrest Fang ("Abandoned Mines"), as well as an alternate mix of "You?ll Just Have to See It to Believe." Grammy
Award-winning engineer John Cuniberti mastered the album.
Memory & Imagination
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