Erik Hinds

Located in Atlanta, GA, where he works with several genre-pushing teams, Erik Hinds provides borrowed from various music designs to forge his vocabulary: folk, country, jazz, sometimes rock. He has the H’arpeggione, a string device constructed by Fred Carlson. A mix between a electric guitar, cello, and bass, they have six strings with quarter-tone frets and 12 sympathetic strings. It addresses a variety and starts up the field of microtonal playing, offering Hinds’ music an individual color. The guitarist also operates the Solponticello label and it is a confident environmentalist — he designed his very own solar-powered home. His first single album, Cerebus, arrived in 2001. Delivered in NJ in 1972, Hinds spent his early years as a child within a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. He was back NJ at age group five to capture a Kiss present at Madison Square Backyard in NEW YORK. Everything that glitter and artificial bloodstream planted a seed. A rabid listener, he sucked the substance away from such diverse performers as Philip Cup, Metallica, Gordon Lightfoot, and Sunlight Ra. Self-taught on electric guitar from age 12, he experienced the usual steel and punk garage area rings but by university was focusing on single acoustic guitar technique and improvisation. After research at the University or college of Maine, he resolved in Athens, GA, within the middle-’90s. He quickly made friends having a group of likeminded music artists. His most typical collaborators are guitarist Colin Bragg, saxophonist Mike Hough, drummer Blake Helton, and vocalist Julie Powell. In 2000 he created the free of charge jazz quartet SS Puft with Bragg, Helton, and trumpeter Jeff Crouch. For the group’s 1st release (a cooperation with Vandermark 5 member Dave Rempis), he founded Solponticello Information, a business that also promotes avant-garde music occasions in Athens. Besides SS Puft, he performs within the Georgian Modern Unit (1st recording released in 2002), within the trio Thicken the Storyline (with Helton and guitarist Kyle Dawkins), and in Powell’s rock and roll group Riveter. He offers performed live with going to music artists like Ken Vandermark, Chris Cutler, Frank Gratkowski, and Peter Kowald.