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Station ID music from the Snap On Voles


  The Aviary is a collection of field recordings digitized and orchestrated. Actual birdsongs control the melody, rhythm and dynamics while the sounds are of conventional instruments (like scanning a photo and changing the colors). 
thrushNightingale.mp3






"...a strangely cohesive outpouring of rapid-fire melodies, timbral shifts and dreamy embellishments on a theme."
- Keyboard Magazine

"...truly beautiful and amazing"
- Filmfax


Transphoria - Symphonic/Progressive Art Rock.  Special guests Jenny Labow and Candy Gaffen lend their respective vocal and pianistic talents.
 
x4ea.mp3






"This CD is beyond recommended, this is an essential progressive album for anyone's collection."
 - Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock

Western Swing in the style of Speedy West, Spade Cooley, Noel Boggs, Leon McAuliffe & Bob Wills. Steve plays steel guitar, fiddle, guitar, bass, ukelele, mandolin, banjo as well as singing.  Styles range from Blues to Swing to Hawaiin.
talahina.mp3

Happy Hour for a Pack of  Screaming Monkeys  is a tribute to Raymond Scott, produced by David Bagsby. Scott wrote songs that have become part of the collective unconscious via Looney Tunes, and now, Ren and Stimpy cartoons, among others. Styles on the CD range from Western Swing to Speed Metal.
powerhouse.mp3




"What can you say about a man who inspired cartoon melodies and Be bop, invented Frank Zappa and electronic music, and still found time to work for Motown?"
- Andy Partridge (of XTC)

with performances by:
Steve Bagsby
(the Tractors/Texas Playboys)
Ron Jarzombek (Spastic Ink/Watchtower)
David Bagsby (Patrick Moraz/Crunchy Frog)

 "...sure to be a dance hit soon in clubs where the patrons have long
floppy ears and/or more than two feet."
- Keyboard

"wonderful, wacky"
- Outre

Acoustic guitar works recorded on tour in the U.K. Dec. 2002.

cleoNeedle.mp3

"...quite wonderful. Recommended to all who cherish the power of subtlety."
- Progression Magazine

"...virtuoso acoustic guitar" - Filmfax

Hallucinographs
It began as a techno album but ended up mutating into something else; much like a Moog album of yesteryear except that it is 98% improvisation. The music 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. This cd is a good way to test out your stereo equipment; particularly your sub-woofer. Euphoriants are recommended but not mandatory.
haluc.mp3





"Imagine if the Hawkwind dudes were DJ's at a trance club.  Play with caution around sensitive types."
-Expose


Xen is a musical duo consisting
of David Bagsby and Kurt Rongey.
Employs such mathematical schemata as the tone row, the Fibonacci sequence, and stochastic theory to create new structures and ideas, yet the music remains accessible to the intuition.
xen.mp3


"The outer fringe of progressive rock... Anything might happen at any moment... If you chopped up some Zappa, some Stockhausen, and some ELP with a lawn mower and spliced the tape segments together at random, it would fit right in with XEN." - Keyboard Magazine

 "...the ferocity of the playing and the forcefulness of the drum tracks drives the music with a motor energy that only a handful of classic prog bands ever achieved." - Titus Levi, Keyboard

 "...film music that doesn't need a film."
- Organ



Ephemeron is a collection of humanly impossible polyrhythmic hierarchies. A minimum of 3 concurrent time signatures are occurring at any given time. A bonus track, Hydrophony, employs the Aviary approach applied to the sound of a creek. 
eph.mp3


Overview


Vlad 3: Eerie Estates

A collection of  mysterious  soundscapes based on concepts by H.P. Lovecraft.
eerieEstates.mp3


"Gothic symphonic terrorscapes from ghostly mansions, H.P. Lovecraft and Vlad Dracula, leading the listener from Arkham to Innsmouth on the cruelest of nights, and ultimately stranding us there to fend for ourselves."
-Rue Morgue


Snap On Voles
"Martian Love Call"

Cartoon Jazz
with David & Steve Bagsby.
otto.mp3

 
Review in the Pitch


Tulsa Project series

fantasticTheatre.mp3






Serigraphs: the art of Rob Smith

Cinematic instrumental music in styles
ranging from classical to cartoon.
serigraph.mp3




Syllogisms: 
A wide variety of the music included
in Good Taste Theatre's film soundtracks.

syllogism.mp3


Spastic Ink: Ink Compatible
Ron Jarzombek's alternate project. 
Technical Metal with a sense of humor. 
If  Stravinsky joined Dream Theater, you'd be gettting an idea of what this is like. 
David Bagsby plays a synthesizer solo
and adds a voice. 
Check out Ron's latest group, Blotted Science!
You'll be glad you did.  This guy is the real deal folks!

To Canterbury and Beyond: a tribute to the Canterbury branch of progressive rock.  Contains an arrangement by David Bagsby of the music of Hatfield & the North, National Health & Bruford.  This double disc available at Mellow Records in Italy.  Also includes a track from the Underground Railroad, Fort Worth's sweaty
mega-proggers.

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