David Bagsby
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Early in his career, Bagsby released The Aviary (1991), an album that used conventional instruments to reproduce bird songs captured on digitized field recordings.
Xen (1995) was a collaborative project featuring David Bagsby and keyboardist Kurt Rongey from Underground Railroad.
David Bagsby explained his incorporation with Xen as follows:
Noted in The New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
, "Transphoria" (1996) featured symphonic
/progressive
Art Rock
with guest vocalists.
"Happy Hour for a Pack of Screaming Monkeys" (1998) was a tribute to Raymond Scott
to which David Bagsby produced on his label, including performances of David Bagsby's brother Steve Bagsby and Ron Jarzombek
of Spastic Ink
.
In 2002, Progression Magazine] praised Bagsby's collection of Acoustic guitar works, digitally recorded live on tour in the United Kingdom in 2002.
David Bagsby explained his 2006 release Hallucinographs as follows:
"People can basically hear anything from 20 hertz to 20 megahertz. I basically just jump off from there and make clouds of sound that crash into each other."
Xen (1995) was a collaborative project featuring David Bagsby and keyboardist Kurt Rongey from Underground Railroad.
David Bagsby explained his incorporation with Xen as follows:
"I met Kurt running sound for his prog band The Choice years ago. I found out later that they were interested in having me play guitar for them but the band fell apart and I was playing in a (Gasp!) Country band when this came down. I didn't know how to contact those guys and eventually ran into Kurt again at an Adrian Belew concert a few years later. He invited me to a prog group he was in called Crunchy Frog which also featured Bill Pohl on guitar. In a few months, I was the Lead Singer/Bass Player/Keyboardist for the Frog."
Noted in The New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
Gibraltar (web site)
Gibraltar, also called The New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock, is a web site devoted to presenting news and reviews in the world of progressive rock. It was started originally as a mailing list — Gibraltar - The Electronic Magazine For Progressive Rock And Related Music — by...
, "Transphoria" (1996) featured symphonic
Symphonic rock
Symphonic rock is a sub-genre of progressive rock. Since early in progressive rock's history, the term has been used sometimes to distinguish more classically influenced progressive rock from the more psychedelic and experimental forms of progressive rock....
/progressive
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
Art Rock
Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...
with guest vocalists.
"Happy Hour for a Pack of Screaming Monkeys" (1998) was a tribute to Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor....
to which David Bagsby produced on his label, including performances of David Bagsby's brother Steve Bagsby and Ron Jarzombek
Ron Jarzombek
Ron Jarzombek is an American guitarist best known for his work with Austin, Texas progressive metal trailblazers WatchTower, '90s madcap trio, Spastic Ink, technical extreme metal band Blotted Science, featuring Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster and Obscura drummer Hannes Grossmann, and most...
of Spastic Ink
Spastic Ink
Spastic Ink is a progressive technical metal band from the United States.-History:Spastic Ink was formed in 1993 by guitarist Ron Jarzombek of Watchtower after recovering from multiple hand surgeries that had sidelined him, unable to play, for a couple of years. He would be joined by brother Bobby...
.
In 2002, Progression Magazine] praised Bagsby's collection of Acoustic guitar works, digitally recorded live on tour in the United Kingdom in 2002.
David Bagsby explained his 2006 release Hallucinographs as follows:
"(Hallucinographs) is too brash to be Ambient/Trance but not groove oriented enough to be Electronica. Think Jean-Michel Jarre meets Mike Oldfield at an outer space industrial park."
External links
- bagsby.com http://www.bagsby.com
- David Bagsby on Myspace Music http://www.myspace.com/davidbagsby
- David Bagsby Filmography IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3166128/
- David Bagsby Bio at Billboard http://www.billboard.com/artist/david-bagsby/400948#/artist/david-bagsby/400948