Polyphonic Demo, by Headboggle

Polyphonic Demo

by Headboggle

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Clarke Robinson Delightful set of generally tonal explorations into the realm of the fun & uplifting. What punk might have sounded like had it been birthed from the Main Street Electrical Parade.

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1.	Big Bang Over Voice (live) 01:00		buy track
2.	Chill Out Room World 01:00		buy track
3.	Harp Chords 01:00		buy track
4.	Polyphonic Intro 01:00		buy track
5.	Dramatic Interlude 01:00		buy track
6.	Ad Break 01:00		buy track
7.	Marathon Man Dance 01:00		buy track
8.	Blue Guitar (live) 01:00		buy track
9.	Slippy Soul 01:00		buy track
10.	Hopalong Patch 01:00		buy track
11.	Gallop Sparkler 01:00		buy track
12.	Siren Phonics 01:00		buy track
13.	Snappy Polyphonics 01:00		buy track
14.	Stomp Ya Down 01:00		buy track
15.	Sustern Theme 01:00		buy track
16.	Baseball Fan 01:00		buy track
17.	Buncha Synthis 01:00	info	buy track
18.	Suspense Jag 01:00		buy track
19.	Skippy Shifts 01:00		buy track
20.	Woodpecker Setting 01:00		buy track
21.	Clint Stone Guitar Demo 01:00		buy track
22.	Piano and Polyphonics (live) 01:00	info	buy track
23.	O'Shaugnessey Blvd. 01:00		buy track
24.	Dude Blues (live) 01:00		buy track
25.	Fritz Stereo Special 01:00		buy track
26.	Buchla Club 01:00	info	buy track
27.	Double MIDI 01:00		buy track
28.	Transport Soundtrack 01:00		buy track
29.	Detective Work 01:00		buy track
30.	Jerk Beat 01:00		buy track
31.	Sad Theme On High 01:00		buy track
32.	Monster Simulation 01:00		buy track
33.	You Won (live) 01:00		buy track
34.	Same Old Theme 01:00		buy track
35.	Scott Patch 01:00		buy track
36.	Space Morse 01:00		buy track
37.	Prophet Pretty (live) 01:00		buy track
38.	Bell Rock 01:00		buy track
39.	Country Club Dr. 01:00		buy track
40.	Harsh Noise Wallz 01:00		buy track
41.	Sales Theme 01:00		buy track
42.	Reporter Fan Club 01:00		buy track
43.	Sister Synth 01:00		buy track
44.	Sneaky Polyphonics (live) 01:00		buy track

about

Ratskin Records, 2019:

"San Francisco's Derek Gedalecia's long-standing HEADBOGGLE moniker has boasted over 100 releases in his twenty plus years composing and releasing music that spans from dense layered noise, synthesizer based works, avant neo-classical, to giddy electronics to ragtime piano, but none of these 100 plus releases have fully purged the deepest depths of unexplored sonic territories, with the inspired urgency and carefully honed strategic extraction of unheard sounds as his newest record, titled "Polyphonic Demo", to be released on CD and digital this November via Ratskin Records. On "Polyphonics Demo", Gedalecia abandons all notions of what experimental music is "supposed" to sound like to offer a exploding, tense, exuberant, yet refreshingly idiosyncratic take on synthesizer music. With forty-four one minute tracks, meant to be shuffled on CD or remain in their sequenced order, Gedalecia completely re imagines what is possible both compositionally and spatially within the confines of a sixty second track, or an electronic music album for that matter. "Polyphonics Demo" is the listening adventure of abstract, yet masterfully grounded take on electronic music we've all been waiting for.

“Headboggle splinters his typically all-encompassing style of synth composition into tiny one minute morsels & the results play out like fellow Bay Area legends The Residents on their Commercial Album: short and sweet, presenting each idea as a discrete miniature world and moving on. Derek presents a comprehensive taxonomy of the tones and strategies within his arsenal of synths and electronics, finding room for everything from glistening classical-informed harmonies to the bludgeoning rhythmic squelches that have become his signature. Across 44 tracks, Derek dilates time and sketches out some oblique narrative known only to him that seems to contain infinite details”.
- Max Allison, Hausu Mountain

“ HOLY SHIT Headboggle has gone “commercial” with (44) one-minute jingles of brain-damaged intent. I can’t get over this joker’s Modern Ballroom Dancing © sound - puts me super smiley in the headspace of Mort Garson or The Residents. My favorite release of his so far.”
- Bran (...) Pos

Derek Gedalecia, a.k.a. Headboggle, has been performing electronic keyboard-based soundscapes for several years in the Bay Area in over a hundred local performances at venues ranging from GTK to YBCA. Incorporating lowbrow with highbrow art, music, and comedy, Head Boggle’s intent is to fuse together a new ecstatic improvisational performance style with a carefully crafted musical underbed. In his formative years, Gedalecia studied classical and ragtime piano from noted ragtime composer/revivalist Dr. Brian Dykstra.

For Fans Of: The Residents, Bee Mask, Suzanne Ciani, Wendy Carlos.
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released April 22, 2019

art by Ben Zoeller
music by Derek Gedalecia
physical and digital release production by MD @ Ratskin Records

* live tracks recorded at preview shows at the Honey Hive Gallery, San Francisco and Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland

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