Jefferson Airplane, ELP, Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster, and the more atmospheric moments of King Crimson and Pink Floyd
Sounds Like
"The overall effect is a spacious elegance in which Block confidently produces a gravity defying mixture of cosmic pastorale and post-art rock electronics."
Stars End
"It has odd-meter workouts that bring to mind no one in particular but Block himself. Not only are his compositions good, but the sounds he produces from his synthesizers are rich, organic and fresh."
Expose
"In the absence of conventional percussion, Block utilizes synthetic sounds bearing no semblance to impacts in a rhythmic mode, generating engaging beats that function as tempos while remaining part of the electronic flow."
Sonic Curiosity
Jonathan Block has been recording and releasing electronic music for over 20 years. He created the term "progressive ambient music" to describe his explorations of the ambient, space and progressive domains. Block was a founding member of the musical collective the Objective Music Coalition in 1983 with other musicians who were interested in developing an applied creative practice.
Block's first CD, Synthetic Block, was released on Mindspore in 1998. Subsequent CDs have been released on labels such as Hypnos and Gears of Sand. His music has also appeared on numerous compilations, and has been featured on many radio shows, including Echoes and Star's End. Block has also performed and recorded with Dave Fulton, APK and Ben Fleury-Steiner.
He is also a published poet, with poems that have appeared in journals around the world, including Phoebe, The NRG Anthology,
The Chiron Review and Riverrun.
hello there. I will be very glad to send you some mp3s for free of my instrumental music if you like my style. Just give me (in private) an email address, and I will sent you them.
There is also a preview of my album, with other songs (but, these I can't send for free). Here is:
Thanks Mr. Block! Your progressive ambient music is very interesting. What is this strange instrument, an electric flute?? Is Jimmy giuffre an inspiration to you?
Sorry for now my page as no sample to listen, i'm trying to get the rights of some songs from "Night Danse" and "The train and River" 70s albums.
I'm glad to see you on my "add" list. It's always good to see a hypnos forum regular, particularly one who makes interesting music. Best to you, and I'm glad to be able to learn about your new projects through this medium.
Many thanks for your add and support, welcome aboard!
If you've got a little time left, please kill some by listening to the genre of Progressive Dance :-)
By the way, if you happen to like VDGG, A Dance Mix of Man Erg(!) is under construction! Check out my blog space... :) Since I updated it tonight it's really fresh :-)
I am working on my new SteveDragon-album at the moment and uploaded one of the new tracks to my myspace player for you to listen, rate or add. Though its still a demo...It is called "BossaNova".....If you find some time, have a listen to it.
There will be more new tracks online for you to hear soon, I´ll keep you informed! :-)
If you are interested in my coming album, drop me a mail, I´ll put you on a newslist and you will be messaged when its available in stores or online.
Your comments are welcome, thank you all for the support and for being connected, its a nice thing to have you all on my friends list!! Hope to see most of you in the real world one time!
