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American Fear
Label: Creative Nation Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Everybody Wants To Rule The World; Twenty Questions; Her Hiding Place; Hot For Teacher; Bailout Blues; Monsters In The Closet; Monsters Under The Bed; Moose The Mooch--Cash Style; Black And Blue Lost Highway; The Jump Jump; La Ligne De Chance; Smells Like Teen Spirit; Black Fire; Broke Down...Breakdown; American Wonder.
Eric Hofbauer: American Fear!
Label: Creative Nation Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Everybody Wants to Rule the World; Twenty Questions; Her Hiding Place; Hot for Teacher; Bailout Blues; Monsters in the Closet; Monsters Under the Bed; Moose the Mooch--Cash Style; Black and Lost Blue Highway; The Jump Jump; La Ligne de Chance; Smells Like Teen Spirit; Black Fire; Broke Down...Breakdown; American Wonder.
Eric Hofbauer to Celebrate New CD at Johnny D'S September 15th
On Wednesday, September 15th, guitarist/composer Eric Hofbauer will celebrate his latest recording, American Fear (Creative Nation Music), with a hometown CD release concert at Johnny D's in Somerville, Massachusetts. The opening set will feature selections from the record, an intimate and inclusive collection of solo guitar performances that musically explore how fear is reflected and manifested ...
The Jazz Session #189: Eric Hofbauer
Eric Hofbauer is using the solo guitar to explore American identity on a trilogy of albums that began with American Vanity (Creative Nation Music, 2004) and continues with American Fear (Creative Nation Music, 2010). In this interview, Hofbauer talks about the pop tunes he covers on this record; how he uses improvisation to lead to composition; ...
Eric Hofbauer: Eric Hofbauer: American Fear!
by Tom Greenland
With American Fear!, creative guitarist Eric Hofbauer once again exposes his funny bone, effectively demonstrating that jazz and humor are not mutually exclusive. Like American Vanity (Creative Nation, 2002), this is a solo guitar effort mixing unusual covers with quirky originals, all delivered with the Boston-based artist's extroverted minimalism. There are no disposable ...
Eric Hofbauer: American Fear
by Nic Jones
Boston, Massachusetts is truly blessed in having Eric Hofbauer as a member of its improvised music community. Over the course of successive releases he has proved himself to be one of the great original voices and this solo guitar recital proves it in spades. He seemingly and effortlessly has forged a highly individual instrumental vocabulary and ...
Garrison Fewell: Variable Density Sound Orchestra
by Lyn Horton
For the descriptively-titled Variable Density Sound Orchestra, guitarist Garrison Fewell has assembled a group whose members expertly develop the thematic content central to the pieces on the album. All but one are composed by Fewell, the disc closing with Butch Morris' “Namthini's Shadow." Trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr. plays with Fewell for the first time here, the ...
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club: Adventures
by Virginia A. Schaefer
Adventures is the high-energy first release of Explorer's Club, led by accomplished saxophonist and composer Charlie Kohlhase. The septet includes a guitarist, bassist, two drummers, two saxophonists, and trombonist. Kohlhase puts together their expertise to produce an impressive range of instrumental combinations, timbres, and textures in the outside-but-accessible style for which he's known. Kohlhase's compositions (all ...
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club: Adventures
by Jerry D'Souza
Charlie Kohlhase is an entertaining adventurer. In his role as a composer, he draws on several influences. His eye is on the final dimension and in pursuing that, he uses a wide range of styles. Taken individually the styles seem to be odd bedfellows, but when the course of their journey has been charted, they have ...
Creative Nation Music to Celebrate 5th Anniversary with Two-Day Festival March 28-29th
On Saturday, March 28th and Sunday, March 29th, Boston's Creative Nation Music will present the first Creative Nation Music Festival at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The official local celebration of the label's fifth anniversary, and the culmination of its four-state package tour of New England, the festival will feature seven bands over ...
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