Barry has released a new album on MoonJune Records. HOLOGRAMATRON features Michael Manring, Robert Powell, Celso Alberti,
and Amy X Neuburg,
with contributions from Harry Manx, Deborah Holland, Artist General, Rick Walker, Erdem Helvacioglu, and Gino Robair.
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Hologramatron is also available on Apple iTunes.
"[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
"In other news, I recently received a copy of Barry Cleveland's Hologramatron, new on Moonjune Records. I listened to it five times yesterday, and serial
listening is rare for me. While it is not overtly avant, I think it is a great release." (Pick of the Week) " —Mike Borellas, Avant Music News
"Cleveland's guitar work [on Hologramatron] is exceptional and vital to these songs. Whether he is cranking out metal riffs, creating atmospheric layers of
sound or finessing melodic leads, it is all top notch. I guarantee you will not be disappointed." Score: 4/5. — Jon Neudorf, Sea of Tranquility
"Art rock with passionate intensity, like a rude new beast with Robert Fripp's body and the roaring head of Phil Ochs slouching towards Bethlehem to be
born. This album yells "Theater!" in a crowded fire." —Billy Sheppard, Billy's Bunker
"Layers and layers of ominous energies float and coruscate, wilding lines flit and glow, the entire affair brings back the halcyon era of Vitamin L
and Mary Jane, nights given to opium dreams and cloudtripping. Cut right away to "You'll Just Have to See it to Believe," dive into the swirling patterns
and wormholes, and you'll find it hard not to replay the cut 10 times in a row." —Mark S. Tucker, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange (F.A.M.E.)
"Ominous arrangements that betray hints of everyone from Robert Fripp to Tool to (even) the Residents abound on the disc, but they're somehow presented
in an accessible fashion. Hologramatron is an effective collection/synthesis of folk-protest song, rhythmic/textural explorations,
soundscapes and inventive reinterpretations of classic songs from half a century ago." —Bill Kopp, MusicScribe
"I seriously doubt you've heard a CD as powerful as this one of late. [Cleveland] is totally unique and doesn't conform (in any way shape or form)
to what your aural vision is for what a guitarist should sound like. Hologramatron gets a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
from me, with an 'EQ' (energy quotient) rating of 4.97." — Rotcod Zzaj (Dick Metcalf), Improvijazzation Nation
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"Cleveland has a full command of his instrument, both as a player and a shaper of sound, utilizing all manner of processing to create sounds
that are at times distinctly un-guitarlike. But what is most revealing about his approach, as evidenced by Volcano, is that
Cleveland sees the guitar more as a means to an end rather than the end itself." —John Kelman, All About Jazz
"Barry Cleveland’s highly imaginative and resplendent guitar playing incorporates elements from a panoply of sources—including, but certainly
not limited to progressive rock, psychedelic effects, ambient and new age soundscapes, world, jazz, funk and other (re)sources. Like Jimmy Page,
for instance, he sometimes bows his electric guitar. To that, add Cleveland’s
keen command of digital and analog recording studio devices and techniques.
All told, you’ve a pretty talented cat on your hands." —Robert Kaye, Abstract Logix
"Much of Cleveland's work doesn't sound like the work of your conventional guitarist at all, but rather a far-reaching compositional visionary
who uses whatever instruments and processes necessary to achieve his ends." —Peter Thelen, Exposé