--- Reviews for Barnyard Electronics ---
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Bryant Liggett, Program Director for KDUR Radio in Durango, CO, writes:
Somewhere within a vast musician's landscape where the same
rock-jam-roots-bluegrass-jazz bands beat a dead horse daily in the
studio and nightly on the stage stands a true original. That original
is Danny Barnes. The Barnes body of work is a must own for any fan of
the DIY approach. Barnyard Electronics finds the musician harvesting
sounds from his instruments and mad scientist gadgetry that create a
quirky, catchy, interesting and beautiful sound-scape. The envelope has
been pushed and the curve ball has been thrown. This will rank as one
of the least predictable releases of 2007.
Tim O'Brien writes:
The words Danny Barnes mean "artist." His vision cuts like a diamond drill, deeper and deeper with every new project. The newest, "Barnyard Electronics," is his best and truest statement yet. Found sounds connect the dots of new constellations only his brain could find. I could listen to "Pretty Daughter" all day, and often do. You can't wear it out.
Wayne Horvitz writes:
You tread a fine line when you start taking the long, soulful
tradition of great American music and mix it with the sweet
temptations of digital manipulations and the seductions therein. Danny
draws that line in just the right place and makes music that sounds
like right now yet feels like forever. You should check it out.
Darol Anger writes:
Like a West Virginia coal miner who's hijacked the borer, Danny
Barnes has sunk a musical shaft straight down through the jumbled
strata of modern culture. Those with the ears to see can read the
scratchings on the wall of his syncretic subterranean view of pretty
much the whole damn thing: Our nutball civilization, through a banjo,
darkly.
Danny Barnes seems driven to show us the persistent "old weird
America"* which stubbornly persists, defying modern life, Disney, all
the rest.
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