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Herb Heinz

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About Me

Herb Heinz is a composer, producer, guitarist, electronic music geek, conceptual artist and gatherer of community talents.

His current project is dud -- a collaboration of artists and musicians creating multimedia improvised rock jazz experimental hippie happenings.

Past projects have included 10 years of guitarring, singing and leaping around with Amy X Neuburg & Men; ongoing rants and experiments with the duo Hmmm... (with Mark Briggs); and co-founding and performing with the notorious MAP -- a computer-based music-theater ensemble.

Herb's tour-de-force solo CDs Failure (1998) and Another (2004) are complex, dark, cinematic, meticulously produced audio journeys through the meandering mind of an artist grappling with Big Life Questions.

Read about Herb in the Gibralter Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock . (Scroll down to "Heinz.")

Purchase Another from CD Baby.
"Wow! This album should be big among the prog community and see a lot of crossover into fans of avant-garde and even experimental pop music. This is just plain good shit." -- Gibralter review

Purchase Failure from CD Baby.
"Delightfully creepy... Heinz keeps listeners on their toes with dramatic and quirky sonic labyrinths, suddenly shifting between lullaby melodies and jerky Zappaesque rock, fraught with experimental twiddlings, neurotic spiels, predatory guitars, and dreamy synth undertow." -- East Bay Express

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/25/2006
Band Members:

Herb Heinz:
electronics, vocals, guitars, production, etc.

Joel Davel:
occasional percussion

Shawn King:
occasional percussion

Amy X Neuburg:
occasional backing vocals


Influences: Self-referentialism, surrealist cinema, musical theater, Gentle Giant, Fred Frith, Devo, King Crimson, Andy Kaufman, Luis Buñuel, that sort of thing
Record Label: IS TOO
Type of Label: Indie