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  • Genre: Experimental / Freestyle / Other

    Location So far, 49 of the, US

    Profile Views: 134281

    Last Login: 3/11/2012

    Member Since 4/14/2005

    Website www.cjboyd.com

    Record Label Joyful Noise Recordings, Sounds Are Active

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    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. .. .. You can buy any of my CDs and LPs by clicking ..here... You can download any of my albums by clicking ..here...

  • Members

    In the US, I travel with my bass guitar and upright bass, loop pedal, harmonica, occasional voice. In Europe, no upright, sadly. .. .. I also play in ..The Kirtan Choir.. (formerly known as The CJ Boyd Sextet) and in ..MOVE...

  • 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.. .. 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 WITH 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.., .. ..Dilute.., .. ..Bonfire Madigan.., .. ..Lazarus.., .. ..By the End of Tonight.., .. ..Create (!).., .. ..The Six Parts Seven.., .. ..Castanets.., .. ..Mike Tamburo.., .. ..Kayo Dot.., .. ..Eliot Lipp..,.. .. .. .. "Omnia mea mecum porto"

  • Sounds Like

    "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.".. --Thelonious Monk .. .. "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.. .. .. You can buy any of my CDs and LPs by clicking ..here... You can download any of my albums by clicking ..here... .. .. ...... .. .. ...... .. ...... ...... ..

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  1. CJ BOYD

    Playing a show in Detroit, MI at 8:00 PM today at Trumbullplex http://lnk.ms/byZBP

  2. CJ BOYD

    New show announced in Seattle, WA at Teatro de la Psychomachia on June 23, 2012 http://lnk.ms/by1Gl

  3. CJ BOYD

    New show announced in Iowa City, IA at Public Space One on June 7, 2012 http://lnk.ms/bxzfC

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    6 new shows announced! http://lnk.ms/FcZvc

  5. CJ BOYD

    New show announced in Madison, WI at The Project Lodge on June 4, 2012 http://lnk.ms/bw72F

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