Description
Testimonials
"Hartung stretches the boundaries of the acoustic/electric guitar, creating inventive collages of non-traditional sounds, oblique melodies and delightful dissonance. This is truly original art. Places is a CD that musicians and non-musicians alike will thoroughly enjoy." -Ben Burdick, Guitarist, Composer, Producer and President, Little House Recordings
"Rather than merely lull you into a meditative state, Krispen Hartung's New Age instrumentals challenge the ear with improvisational guitar solos that verge on the avant-garde. Creating experimental yet arresting musical moods, Hartung wrings sounds out of his acoustic guitar that you've never heard before." -C|NET DOWNLOAD.COM
Tracks
1) Continuum
2) Places
3) Impossible Shade of Blue
4) On Park Center
5) Fremmed Sinn
6) 4 Min. 7 Sec. Evolution
7) The Wait
8) Primordial Soup
9) Taste of Life
10) Unsheltered Lift
11) Lovecraft Resurrected
Artist Profile
Krispen Hartung's musical background is an experimental and continuously evolving road trip marked by many excursions and detours - from formal classical guitar instruction at age 12 to axe slinging, technical progressive rock in the 80s...and from art rock and fusion in the 90s to traditional jazz and avant-garde in the new millennium. Hartung now exhibits a dynamic and atypical performance style that integrates multiple genres and gives new meaning to the world of improvisational guitar. His solo CD Places was released for sale in April of 2004 and is now accompanied by a bizarre and experimental DVD production Microscopic Horrors, featuring excerpts of his CD over live video of microscopic organisms.
Credits
�2004 Krispen Hartung
Label: Krispen Hartung Records
Song composition, performance, and sound engineering by Krispen Hartung - CD design and layout by Krispen Hartung - Digital photography by Carissa Hagstrom - Artwork by Mike Oglesbeearger version of the artwork on the back of the CD - CD duplication and printing by Triple Disc Media Design and Duplication