Jazz Articles about Jonathan Badger

Jonathan Badger: Verse

by Glenn Astarita
January 11, 2015

Baltimore, MD, native Jonathan Badger is a guitarist and technologist who aurally paints a sequence of montages with hornists, vocalists, and strings performers, including Shodekeh who is listed as utilizing a human beat box. It's a diverse electro-acoustic brew via an off the wall melding of avant-garde expressionism, ambient electronica and progressive rock amid slight inferences to Frank Zappa's unorthodox time signatures and a host of polytonal attributes, partly devised by Badger's keys and computer processes. Badger's line ...