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Barry Cleveland is an LA-based guitarist, composer, recordist, journalist, and author. He has released seven albums, written thousands of articles and reviews, and penned the cult classic book Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques. Cleveland also served as an editor at Guitar Player Magazine for 12 years.


Music for Film & Television

Barry Cleveland’s compositions have been featured on Teen Titans Go, Extra, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Erin Burnett OutFront, Crime Watch Daily, Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers, CNN International Europe, CNN International Asia, and various TMZ programs. Read More

Noir Moderne is the most recent:


Joe Meek book

Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques

Hardcover copies with very slightly warped covers available for $25.00. (Regularly $34.99)


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Print-on-demand hardcover copies are also available in the UK from The Great British Book Shop.


“This book really opened my eyes to what an innovator Joe Meek was and even gave me ideas to toy with in future sessions of my own. Everyone reading Tape Op would enjoy this book!” —Larry Crane, Editor, Tape Op

Legendary British record producer and innovative recording genius Joe Meek—the man behind the global hit “Telstar”—has become a cult figure since his death in 1967.Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques is the first book that details the methods that led to Meek’s influential hits. This book takes an industry perspective on Meek’s life. It explores his 12-year professional career in great depth, with special attention paid to the equipment and techniques he used, and the effect that his work had on the people around him. Interviews with Les Paul, Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Howe, and numerous others with first-hand knowledge of Meek’s work are included.

Also included is a newly restored and remastered version of Meek’s extraordinary 1959 stereo album about life on the Moon, I Hear a New World, made available in its original form for the first time (via digital streaming). Read More


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Nels Cline

From Crippling Insecurity to Channeling the Ineffable Cosmic Om

Nels Cline’s expansive musical vision encompasses, intermingles, and frequently transcends multiple idioms. The idiosyncratic guitarist has received widespread recognition for his incendiary soloing and hip compositional contributions as a member of Wilco—though viewed within the totality of his creative endeavors, rock star might reasonably be considered his “day job.”

 

Mu
Richard Pinhas & Barry Cleveland
With Michael Manring & Celso Alberti

Mu is a mesmerizing combination of entirely improvised music and Cleveland’s post-production compositional development. The four pieces unfurl as a confluence of overlapping musical currents informed by art rock, ambient, electronic, avant-garde jazz, and various world music inflections.

“Mu is an entirely improvised, yet extremely focused effort that explores the intersections between myriad genres and influences … Incredibly strong stuff.” —Anil Prasad, Innerviews

“Mu is fearlessly powerful, rich, and HUGE—the sounds of heavy metal jazz meeting electronic maximalism, guitars as freed by Jimi Hendrix in orchestrations rivaling Led Zeppelin’s, rock-solid drumming supporting it all. The effect is oceanic.” —Howard Mandel, Jazz Beyond Jazz … Read More

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Hologramatron
Barry Cleveland
Moonjune Records

An avant-rock 21st Century protest album featuring Robert Powell, Michael Manring, Celso Alberti, and Amy X Neuburg, with Harry Manx, Deborah Holland, Erdem Helvacioglu, Artist General, Rick Walker, and Gino Robair.

“There are a handful of albums in my life that hit me the way this album did. For me it sits in a small group of very special musical experiences: David Byrne and Brian Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Bill Bruford’s Feels Good to Me, NIN’s Downward Spiral, and King Crimson’s Discipline.” —Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie, The Cure)

A fantastic, essential rock album. Several of its ten mini-epics explore the precarious state humanity finds itself at the present moment, with deep insight, humor, and wit—not to mention some ferocious playing from an avant all-star ensemble.” —Anil Prasad, Innerviews

“Hologramatron has really bowled me over, so much so that yesterday I had to remain sitting in the car long after I arrived at my destination and long after the complete album had finished playing … An artistic rock album in the best sense of that term, with multilayered influences … Exciting from start to finish … Honestly, this year I have not heard a better album.” —Sal Pichireddu, Babyblaue-Seiten … Read More

Stones of Precious Water
Barry Cleveland
Morning Trip Records

Restored and remastered vinyl LP version of the cult-classic 1986 cassette release.

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