Jazz Articles about Biff Johnson

Biff Johnson: Mirage at the Crossroads

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

Mirage at the Crossroads is Biff Johnson's second album of electronic experimental music. Like his first one, Reading the Bones , its final production is by Steve Roach in his “Timeroom" studio in Arizona. But though Johnson remains definitely in the “school of Steve Roach," this album shows that he is finding his own individual voice. Though he uses most of the same elements that Roach does, such as floating synthesizer chords and unconventional percussion, he has built his own ...