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CJ BOYD

Oh, sorry, I didn’t make it because of an excuse.

About Me

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 melt the sun itself. Waves of bass loops are garnished with harmonica drones and constant improvisational exploration. This is 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 Glass with what might be called the maximalism of Beethoven chamber music. But all this is further complicated by the presence of Boyd's improvisational prowess. Not funky, not a bassplayer’s bassplayer exactly, but something refreshing and impressive—improvising with fingers that only know how to dance to the deepest tunes. One thinks Nietzsche might have had CJ in mind when he said, “Maturity consists in regaining the seriousness one had as a child at play.” This is childsplay for the experienced listener.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/14/2005
Band Website: cjboyd.com
Band Members: Usually just electric bass guitar and/or upright bass, loop pedal, harmonica, occasional voice. ---------------------------------------------------. I also have a group called The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet .
Influences: Beethoven, Mingus, Eno, Godard, Edgar Meyer, Bjork, Joao Gilberto, Silver Mt. Zion, Philip Glass, Nietzsche, Sigur Ros, Miles, Stravinski, Low, Os Mutantes, Godspeed, Monk, Adorno, Jimi, Nina, Aristotle, Big Bill Broonzy, Coltrane, Zeppelin, Eluvium, Primus, Tarentell, Saul Williams, Wooten, Radiohead, Cinematic Orchestra, Dali, Charlie Haden, Jaco, Van Morrison, Tool, Caetano Veloso, Virginia Rodrigues, Rothko, Autechre, Sly, Bourdieu, Aveshai Cohen, Drums&Tuba, Toni Negri, Tortoise, Mogwai, Mahler, Kaki King, Harpo Marx, Stanley Jordan, Maude, JFJO, Chopin, Robert Johnson, Matmos, TS Eliot, Bulgarian Women's Choir, Can, Rumah Sakit, Johanna Newsom, Aphex Twin, Do Make Say Think, Dylan, Smetana, Arthur Russell, Yes, Ray Brown, Stanley Clarke, Squarepusher, Kahlil Gibran, Uakti, Angelo Badalamenti, Tom Waits, J5, Ani Difranco, The Beans, Bill Frisell, Silvio Rodriguez, Funkadelic, Wagner... SOME FRIENDS WHO PLAY REAL GOOD:-------------------------- The Drift , Polmo Polpo, Pillars and Tongues , Eluvium, The Ascent of Everest , Nat Baldwin , Roots of Orchis , And the furies say , Unwed Sailor , Baby Teeth Thieves , Scout Niblett , Stationary Odyssey , His Life Not Mine , Zoe Keating , Dilute , Tungsten 74 , The Slip , Bonfire Madigan , Gratis , Questions in Dialect , Libby Kirkpatrick , Lazarus , By the End of Tonight , The Give , The Dead Hippies , Leslie Helpert , Timbre, Create (!) , The Six Parts Seven , Sparrows Swarm and Sing , Castanets , 31 Knots , Okay , Mike Tamburo, Kayo Dot, Lozen , Eliot Lipp , Gravity Plays Favorites , Floating City , Lafcadio
Sounds Like: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." --Thelonious Monk
Record Label: Sounds Are Active, Caiaphas Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ridiculous Tour Schedule

I'm going to live on the road for a while, which is to say indefinitely.Here are the places I'd like to play over the next few months. *s mean that show is actually booked. The others are just hopes....
Posted by CJ BOYD on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:41:00 PST

Silent Ballet Review for The Greatest Weight

http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Reviews/tabid/54/ctl/Details/ mid/438/ItemID/737/Default.aspx
Posted by CJ BOYD on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:46:00 PST

Remix my songs

click herehttp://www.myspace.com/cjboydremixes">here> to see the profile. This is not a blog.  I don't write blogs. Sorry....
Posted by CJ BOYD on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:31:00 PST