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Todd Boston

About Me

Todd Boston, is a professional touring musician born and raised in Philadelphia, PA currently residing in San Francisco Bay area. He was recently nominated for the Southern California Music Awards in 2003 and performs more than 100 shows a year at live venues, and festivals coast to coast. Todd’s music has been described as “soulful, inspiring, and healing,” and his songwriting brings a message of personal growth and social change.Todd has never taken a traditional approach to music and offers a unique live performance. Utilizing a percussive guitar style using many alternative tunings and techniques he produces sounds not commonly heard on the instrument. Combined with beautiful wooden bamboo flutes and soothing vocals, Todd uses current technology to record live and loop rhythmic and melodic phrases over each other creating what sounds like a full ensemble of musicians coming thru one person. It is truly something to be experienced.Todd performs in a world fusion group he has founded named Global Village and has independently produced and released two albums this past year, Jerome and Global Village. Todd brings his healing sounds to hospitals, yoga studios and healing centers across the country and believes music is a gift to be shared.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/02/2005
Band Website: www.toddboston.com
Band Members: Todd Boston, guitars, flutes, voice, percussion, bass, sound fx, bells, whistles, ebow,w/Guest performers sometimes drumkit, maybe Tabla, perhaps some clarinet, possible even violin
Influences: In no particular order...Michael Hedges, Bela Fleck, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Silvia Nakkach, Nusrat Fetah Ali Khan, The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Kaki King, Joe Myers, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon, Joe Satriani, Sting, Bach, Zakir Hussein, Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, Scott Huckaby, Stanley Jordan, Victor Wooten, Row, Row, Row your boat (whoever wrote that was brilliant), Lymbyc Systym, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Stevie Wonder, Tara Kimes, Tommy Emanuel, Tom Waits, Shimshai, Tina Malia, Maruma, Mother Nature, Sunsets, The Ocean, Love, People, Creation, and all the guides. Mom and Dad, my 2nd mom and dad, my Sis, Bro and my 3 nephews, BJ, my friends who used to listen to me for hours while we were in high school. Sierra. And all those not mentioned.
Sounds Like: Deep in the forest ancient flute echos through the trees. The crackling sound of a fire cuts through the air when grooves of tribal percussive guitar rhythms moves the soul. Sweet melody calms the night. Voices in movements of positive vibration.
Record Label: Urban Nature Music

My Blog

Steaming music live loops...

For those of you trying to figure out what this all means. Basically Stream Conscious and Dream Delay are samples from my live performance utilizing a live looping machine which allows me to play gui...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:32:00 GMT

Pics of Hawaii

Here is a link to pictures taken on our trip to Hawaii to the island of Oahu, it was a great journey. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tboston007/album?.dir=/6af5&.s rc=ph&.tok=phn_8rCB4Xjjpt2i
Posted by on Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:23:00 GMT

Following the dream...

Thanks to all my new friends at myspace the experience has been great so far. I am a humble man following his dreams to play beautiful music and travel the world. I currently play extensively in AZ,...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:29:00 GMT