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Ric Hordinski
12+ albums
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Years before Radiohead put Sigur Rós on the map, Ric (pronounced "Rich") Hordinski was painting soundscapes on Over the Rhine records. His instrumental interludes and echo-laden guitar gave the band a rich, layered sound, and may have kept the band from falling headlong into the mid-tempo singer-songwriter abyss. Ric Hordinski was born and raised on a river that ran to the great lakes. “I think I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to see where that river winds up; growing up watching all of that water moving by me while I sat very still fed a longing in me to see as much of the world as I could.” In his teens, Ric started experimenting with guitars. “I had this little garage sale guitar with one or two strings on it, and I dismantled a telephone receiver and made a pickup out of it so that I could have an ‘electric’ guitar. It actually worked, but sounded predictably horrible . . .” As a guitar performance major in college, Ric studied both classical and jazz. His teacher, Michael Vahila, instilled in him a love for the nylon string guitar, a taste for eastern music, and a strong technical and theoretical foundation. In 1988 Ric moved to Cincinnati and joined a touring outfit which promptly sprited him away to Australia and New Zealand. Upon his return, he married his college sweetheart and co-founded Over the Rhine with Linford Detweiler, Brian Kelley, and Karin Bergquist. While with that group, he toured with Bob Dylan, Squeeze, Adrian Belew, and many others. Ric recall
