8-bit Gameboy bleeps, Scruggs style banjo, and Americana songwriting combine to create a one-of a kind electonica, country-and-western, pop masterpiece.

9 MP3 Songs in this album (38:50) !
Related styles: ELECTRONIC: Folktronic, POP: Pop Underground

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Blending cutting-edge 8-bit music with Americana smarts, banjoist/programmer Bud Melvin is an unequivocal original, even among the sonic renegades of the Game Boy scene. Though bending Nintendo's devices to unintended ends offers an inherently techno-political commentary, Melvin is something more: a good, old-fashioned songwriter. Discovering that the warm, staccato bleeps of a vintage handheld--sequenced with special software--were a perfect match for high, lonesome Scruggs-style fingerpicking, the Albuquerque-based musician invented a new vocabulary for himself and the world.

Clashing the suburban nostalgia of 8-bit with the rural nostalgia of bluegrass, Melvin produces music that sounds like a clear and pure present, a droll summation of the here and now. Recalling the subversive spirit of Devo with the irony-drenched baritone of an exotica crooner, Bud Melvin is novelty music for a world that has transcended normality.

Escape From Eden blends 8-bit Gameboy backing with banjos, guitars, and dark country songwriting.