Erik Hinds of Athens, Georgia is active as a composer, performer, and
promoter of a wide range of music.
Erik Hinds, with seven string quartertone fretted guitar.
Erik played fretless 7 string electric guitar for several years, then started playing
an 11 string fretless Warr guitar.
He is presently playing a quartertone fretted 7 string electric guitar and a
quartertone fretted guitar/bass/cello combo called the H'arpeggione. He has
been working with the H'arpeggione's builder, Fred Carlson, on a fretless/fretted harp
guitar. This has 38 strings and is called Big Red. This new guitar puts Erik squarely back
in the fretless realm.
He describes his style is Appalachian trance metal, with a free improvisation
and a minimalist sensibility.
He has played with William Buchanan, Chris Cutler, Ernesto
Diaz-Infante, Lisle Ellis, Drew Gardner, the Georgia Guitar Quartet, Vinny
Golia, Frank Gratkowski, Carl Ludwig Huebsch, Harald Kimmig, Peter Kowald,
Larry Ochs, Brian Osborne, Ravi Padmanabha, Julie Powell, Dave Rempis,
Blaise Siwula, Sándor Szabó, Ken Vandermark, Eric Zinman, and his own SS
Puft Quartet among others. Erik plays quartertone electric guitar and the
H'arpeggione, an upright instrument with 12 sympathetic strings. His
current groups are the Jeff Crouch/Erik Hinds duo, Soft Rain on Dark Earth,
Dream In Three Persons, and Kyle Dawkins' Walls became the world.
Erik lives in a solar powered house with his wife (and dog) and runs
Solponticello Records.
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