Pop-Rock tunes that are unusual and energetic about true love, dinosaurs, cats, and outer space.

13 MP3 Songs in this album (41:47) !
Related styles: ROCK: Avant-Prog, POP: Pop/Rock

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Electron Man - Love in the Electronic Age is an eclectic collection of pop/rock songs that goes from 12-tone instrumentals to progressive rock to blues. Consequently, the album itself is hard to characterize. Laundry Ladies 1 and 3 are really only the lead in and the lead out for the album; theyâre not supposed to be stand-alone songs. Rough It! is only 33 seconds long, so if you listen to the preview, youâll have heard almost all of it. Silly Spider is a 12-tone piece (look up Arnold Schoenberg) for solo keyboard and percussion. The rest of the tunes are more traditional in length, although not necessarily in composition. Tyrannosaurus Rex really defies technical description - itâs not rap, but it doesnât employ traditional singing, either. Itâs not really a tone poem, although I think it comes closest to that definition than any other. It is rock, though. Ridinâ is a part of a series of instrumental pieces Iâve done for another project (Twelve Scientists/Antipodes) that Iâll be posting on CD Baby soon; keep an eye out for it. Itâs 12-tone also, but very much progressive rock as well. Itâs quite possible that youâve never heard anything quite like it. Some songs feature unusual tonalities and/or compound or shifting time signatures; if you donât know what that means, donât worry about it. It just means that this music is not the same-old commercial offering. I like to think itâs got a bit more to it than most commercial music; at least, thatâs my opinion.
A little about the artist - me. I played keyboards and sang in rock bands for many years, traveling around the U.S. playing gigs in a number of different bands. I decided to settle down after a while, and went back to school to learn more about music. I ended up with three music degrees (A.A., B.A., and M.A.T.) and a masterâs (M.A.) in history as well. All of the songs are composed, performed, recorded and produced by me, except for the guitar performance on Itâs A Good Life, which was done by Harry Hafferkamp, long-time friend and killer guitar player. I use a pile of synthesizers, both real and virtual, in my studio: Hammond C-3; Korg 01R/W, DW8000, BX-3, and C9000; Roland JX-3P, J-106, and Super JD; Yamaha TX81Z and FB-01; 360 Systems MIDIBass; Sequential Drumtraks 400; Emu Proteus/2; Arturiaâs virtual MiniMoog and ARP 2600; and probably a few that Iâve forgotten.
I invite you to visit my web site at www.arkrat.net if you want to know more about me and my music. Iâve worked with some people that you are probably familiar with, but Iâll let you find out who.
Thanks for checking out my music!

Reuben Ferguson