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awake from the flash (2005) anon (2001)
"Lost Diamond" .this particular song is epic, mysterious and very very cool. The narcotic melody and good singing lead the soft charge here. Touches of strings make it even heavier, and the reckless use of reverb somehow manages to avoid cheesiness entirely. Right on!"
- Michael Zapruder , Pandora
"With guitars, vocals, percussion, violins and electronics, electro-acoustic ambientician Gregory Paul creates a texturally all-over-the-place patchwork which encompasses many things oddly-entrancing folk-ethereal pieces where six-strings twang and sparkle in acoustic and electric varieties."
- ambeintrance
"Paul's music transcends its' earthly limitations. "This Side Of The Ground," is bleak and haunting and stripped of any superfluous arrangements or production."
- Frank DeBlase, City Newspaper
"This is his fourth LP of making an acoustic guitar expand and shimmer into multicolor soundscape, to back and bolster his confident voice. An expert picker he is equally adept at banjo, saw, and anything to create a neo-symphonic climate for his soft-croon to swan dive into. Very transporting!"
- Jack Rabid, Big Takeover
"Delicate electronic atmospheres float over plucking banjo and rusty guitar like mist over Appalachian slopes, while Paul's restrained wail seems to carry all the history and sorrow that one imagines is soaked into the ground of that fabled setting."
- Saby Reyes Kulkarni, City Newspaper
"Gregory Paul entranced the entire audience with slow, acoustic indie pop songs. After a short break, Paul brought out a good old electric six-string, complete with bow, and began what can only be called a duet with his violinist."
- John Rodsvilla, Skidmore College A&E
"Paintings of musical tapestries and pin-ups of melodic pop arm the album with a soundscape unlike any other, proving that we as humans have only begun to experience our musical potential. Experimental pop-rock with psychedelic undertones that coast through melodies and harmonies like a speed boat."
- J. Sin, Smother
"In the mid-'90s, Paul played guitar in Stillmotion, a fine band specializing in British shoegazer rock. Over the years, he morphed into ambient music, featuring unstructured compositions that encourage improvisation. More recently, he's explored American roots." - Jeff Spevak, Democrat and Chronicle
"Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Gregory Paul has never been the type of artist easily pigeonholed into a particular sound. His various projects have run the gambit from college acoustic rock to shoegaze and experimental soundscapes to indie-rock and Americana."
- Jeff Marsh, Delusions of Adequacy
"A hybrid of atmospheric ambience and powerful acoustics."
- Billboard
Here's where I cheesily write about myself in the 3rd person:
Has made music for 25 years. Has had surreal musical experiences such as opening for Blue Oyster Cult (more cowbell indeed), Foreigner, the Moody Blues, and the Miracles (unfortunately minus Smokey Robinson), and many more dinosaurs both great and small. Has played on your parents back deck, in water logged basements, in thunderstorms and blizzards, and has lived to tell. Has been paid good money to play for three people, and bad money to play for 13,000. Has played at CBGB, where the owner told his drummer not to pet his dog. One warm Summer evening in 2004 heard his music being used for the background track on NBC's televised coverage of the Olympics. Michael Phelps did the butterfly while "Sisyphus" played in the background heard by 23 million people. Nonetheless this failed to deliver the riches one might assume. After logging billions of miles touring all over the USA playing every dilapidated venue imaginable, now performs daily on the streets of Seattle singing & playing old time banjo songs. Also known for playing haunted, plaintive songs drenched in reverb. Has collaborated / worked with Sera Cahoone, Shannon Stephens, Lindsay Fuller, Annie Ford and more.
music (including with Autumdivers) has been featured by
NBC (2004 summer Olympics)
BBC (Animal Camera)
PBS (Roadtrip Nation)
MTV (Made)
other projects:
matewan
varnish cooks
inward becomes an anthem
naturewastenothing
hinkley
hungness
autumdivers
visual art work
