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About Me

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I've been making + performing music in one form or another for 20 + years all over this nutty nation...
Gregory Paul lures listeners through a beautifully haunted acoustic soundscape of folk-noir sounds and images...along miles of ethereal banjo, guitar, bow, slide, and musical saw. Following his popular success with the Rochester, NY based Autumdivers, Paul released his highly applauded 2005 solo album "Awake From the Flash", which contains recordings that span twenty years of GP's musical experiences. More recently, Paul's diverse musical accomplishments include fronting the experimental ensemble Inward Becomes an Anthem, and as guitarist for the old-time band, The Varnish Cooks. He is also noted for his unique banjo picking presence in Rochester's Indie-Americana band Hinkley. Paul generously collaborates with local poets, visual artists, and musicians-- and his music has been featured in a variety of multi-media projects. Gregory Paul has toured extensively throughout the US, and is currently recording work for a future release.
My music (sometimes with Autumdivers) has been featured by
NBC (2004 summer Olympics)
BBC (Animal Camera)
PBS (Roadtrip Nation)
MTV (Made)
music in these forthcoming films:
mandarin maze
http://www.mandarinmask.com/
mismo
http://www.mismothemovie.com/
other projects:
varnish cooks
inward becomes an anthem
naturewastenothing
hinkley
hungness
autumdivers
visual art work
video for "isms" by jamie littlefair, stockton, UK. 2007:
Isms

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Member Since: 4/13/2005
Band Website: gregorypaul.com
Band Members: gp - voice, guitar, banjo, saw, various stuff.

collaborators past and present -

richard buckner, brannon hungness, ben proctor, greg fair, ryan griffith, holly merrill, lauren chauvin, marlene matthews, brenna doran, lisa toth, will veeder, chad olivieri, meg ruby, eric the taylor, alex kelly, aaron boucher, guy george, tony wensel, linda fullerton, tricia fraser, thomas rosenkranz, tera drew, patrick blackburn, jason kast, heavy kevvy, skull, jeff backer, bill kelliher, jason mombert, shawnee boyee...
Influences: jack rose, sandy bull, john fahey, jeff buckley, richard buckner, thom yorke, roy orbison, brendan perry, joseph arthur, neil young, great lakes swimmers, will oldham, michael gira, will veeder, sally mann, jay farrar. smithsonian folkways anthology of american folk music. folk noir, road trips, dreams, dogs, the sun, autumn, nature, old wives tales, tintype and daguerreotype photographs, ghost stories, drone music.
Sounds Like: music
Record Label: they ignore me, i ignore them
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

film projects

a few film projects that will have some of my music: mandarin maze http://www.mandarinmask.com/mismohttp://www.mismothemovie.co m/ ...
Posted by gregory paul on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:41:00 PST

miniature Earth

miniature earth
Posted by gregory paul on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:02:00 PST

the road

I just finished this book by Cormac McCarthy called "The Road." It kind of devistated me. That sounds melodramatic, but it's left me in this fog that I need to remove myself from sooner than later. Ce...
Posted by gregory paul on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:58:00 PST

folk noir group

folk noir
Posted by gregory paul on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:35:00 PST

When thine eye is single..

I'm not a religious person, but I like this quote: Jesus taught us in Luke 11:34, "When thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light."
Posted by gregory paul on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:02:00 PST

shift

Posted by gregory paul on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:03:00 PST

The collective vehemence coursing through the American ballad is that of the wronged dead, and

Unlike the linear ballad, the song is an exquisite corpse, a Frankenstein's monster of verse parts exhumed from disparate traditions and sutured into a reanimated whole. The firs...
Posted by gregory paul on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:13:00 PST

d&c article + wrur 88.5 fm tueday morning

democrat and chronicle article - big thanks to Jeff Spevak for writing this.i have been invited to play some music on WRUR 88.5 FM for the "open tunings" show with Scott Reagan. i'll be on sometime be...
Posted by gregory paul on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:35:00 PST

flour city drone society

informal group with interest concentrated in drone, ambient, psych, minimalist and traditional chant music from around the world. go here to check it out: flour city drone society...
Posted by gregory paul on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:08:00 PST

the oldest recordings ever made

cylinder recordings
Posted by gregory paul on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:53:00 PST