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Aux.78

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About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorAux.78 is a solo music project with very loose rules.The following instruments and gadgets make up what you hear. Electric 6 string Guitars, Acoustic 6 and 12 string guitars, Bass Guitar, Drums and Percussion, keyboards, sythesizers, xylophone, accordian, vocals, drum machines, original sampling, flute, trumpet, violin, kalimba, harmonica, frequencies transmitted through the air, computer hum, and air conditioner noise. Additional clatter and background noise provided by Chicken, random neighbors turning on various household sources of sound, Mueka, and modern transportation. Check out my other musical adventures. I play guitar and keyboards for BLACK AZIMUTH. In ELECTROLEGS I play guitar, sing, and do the electro programing. BOX OF BUGS was my first band (which is long dead) Befriend and enjoy the music.
"ARTICHOKE" directed by Austin Rhodes 2007 From the 2003 CD The Mystery 909
"switch TWO" video directed and executed by Austin Rhodes 2007 from the 2005 CD SWITCHCONTAINS NO CFCs : Images of The Secret Pecan Tracking Box 2008applelegmusicTHE DREAM OF SISYPHUS PART 1THE DREAM OF SISYPHUS PART 2CROWDED (in my isolation) acoustic guitar piece w/ sound collageELeCTrOLegS : INFECTIONS UPON INFECTIONS video by TabulaRasaPicturesBlack Azimuth and the Marionette Freak Show Feb29,2008 MARIONETTE FREAKSHOW PART TWO
..A Brief feature on BorderLand Pictures 3All Music Published by AppleLeg Music (ascap) Inquire for specific Rights.

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Music:

Member Since: 3/10/2005
Band Website: reverbnation.com/aux78
Band Members: All instruments and devices were manipulated by Nicholas Matta
Influences: MILES DAVIS, BOB DYLAN, Mr Bungle, Geoff Emerick, The Evolution Revolution, Tortoise, JOHN LENNON, Frank Zappa, Saul Williams, Gestalt, Air, Bauhaus, THE CURE, My Dad, JOY DIVISION, Inex Truence, John Frusciante, Johnny Cash, Nigel Godrich, Dead Can Dance, Robert Fripp, Self, My Mother's singing voice, Trans Am, The Voodoo Organist, CAN, THE BEATLES, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Grassos, Fla Fla Flunky, SETI, Aphex Twin, Rancid, BECK, Cocteau Twins, Debris, DUKE ELLINGTON, La Mueka, Edgar Allen Poe, Geroge Martin, Green Day, Faith No More, JOHN COLTRANE, Helmet, NIN, Augustus, KID KOALA, ANTONIN ARTAUD, Sepultura, Slayer, FRANZ KAFKA, Edwin Thomas, Pearl Jam, Metallica, RIMBAUD, MegaDeth, ORNETTE COLEMAN, Taber and Gariby, Operation Ivy, Cecil Taylor, Twiggy Ramirez, Daniel Ash, Pat Martino, DAVID BOWIE, Jeff Buckley, ALBERT CAMUS, Tim Buckley, Cornelieus, BRIAN ENO, The Flaming Lips, King Crimson, Bob Marley, Curt Warren, Peter Tosh, Augustus Pablo, Porno for Pyros, NOFX, Medeski Martin and Wood, Flood, Sigur Ros, Yoko Ono, Lee Scratch Perry, Sonic Youth, MAXIM GORKY, Sun RA, William S Bouroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Phil Spector, JOHN ZORN, The Ventures, Tommy Fraga, Baudelaire, Takako Minekawa, U2, Tricky, Portishead, JS BACH, Lewis Carroll, InterPol, Fixed Idea, Mallarme, Danzig, Beethoven, Muddy Waters, Beastie Boys, Chopin, Bjork, DOSTOEVSKY, THE FOLD (el paso), Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Earth Music For Space People, Iron Maiden, SYD BARRETT, Queensryche, WH Auden, The Mercury Project, Phillip Glass, TEK, Nirvana, Austin Rhodes, Teen Titans, THIRD EYE FOUNDATION, Passengers, Curtis Mayfield, Old Dirty Bastard, Gong, Marvin Gaye, Victor Valero, Brighteyes, Smashing Pumpkins, U-Roy, Fugazi, COMFORT, Mano Sol, THE SECRET OF..., Plug, FIRST AID KIT, Alice in Chains, BB King, John Lee Hooker, Drug Sponge, Big Fire,The list goes on and onand on and on
Sounds Like: Purchase my 2006 disc NIMBUS RELEASE here. Click on the black cover. It's inexpesive

More Songs Here

The Entire Free DownLoad of 2005 SWITCH is here

Record Label: Published by AppleLeg Music (ascap)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

SONG POSTED : A Worn Ballad

The new album is called A Worn Ballad. This song is the title track and a good example of this two faced album. Two things that scream out, acoustic guitar and "sounds".  A Worn Ballad will be o...
Posted by Aux.78 on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:55:00 PST

Free Download : SWITCH 2005 : entire CD

the entire CD is availble for download at www.reverbnation.com/aux78   10 songs   enjoy    ...
Posted by Aux.78 on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:50:00 PST

song posted : WAter tO CulTURe

this is an old sound collage from 2000. Transmit (the CD) took forever to complete. Origianlly recorded on 4 track from 1994-1999 the entire project was dumped to digtial in 1999. Transmit was never f...
Posted by Aux.78 on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:34:00 PST

Discography w/ full pictures

Discography  all music Published by AppleLeg Music (ascap) (unless stated otherwise) all rights reserved ©1991-2007   as AUX.78 1. Ostrich McGuire 1996 front cover 2. Transmit 2000 front c...
Posted by Aux.78 on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:20:00 PST

Song Posted : Shifts (in three)

in three movements.It's a long song, i admit. I'm not looking for radio air play or anything : )this is the fourth song on my 2006 CDNimbus Releaseand one of my favorite guitar solos that I've recorde...
Posted by Aux.78 on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:43:00 PST

Past CD Reviews of Aux.78

Aux 78 shows skills on mostly instrumental 'Mystery' 8/18/03  By Everett SaucedoSpecial to the Times War is hell. But the sounds it makes can be pretty cool. "The Nerve," the first track off "The...
Posted by Aux.78 on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:28:00 PST