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Artist
Travis Shawn Hill
12+ albums
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"I first saw Travis play guitar in his garage when I was sixteen. He told me that I could sing, so we played a song and by the end his right forearm was bleeding. He'd been playing so vigorously that the inside of his arm would smash against his guitar until there was blood all over everything; the strings, the body, the pickups. He cut the toes off of a sock and wrapped it around his injured arm and kept going. At this point, he had been recording music in the study of his parents' house on a PC that he had completely skinned to look like it was running Mac OS X. The computer consequently crashed and burned, but that's beside the point. Both of these things kind of sum up Travis' music - a seamless blending of the completely tactile and material with something futuristic and effortlessly created. Combining flutes with synths and bells and acoustic guitar all recorded on a four-track reel to reel tape recorder that was damaged by UPS in transit, he makes music that sounds so completely warm and organic and real. It gives you the feeling like there's something coming from somewhere else and you want to listen to it forever. Travis has always made music that was whatever he wanted to make and was influenced by whoever he wanted to influence him. When everyone around him was listening to Glassjaw (and pretending to like it), he was listening to Yo La Tengo and that was fine. I think we're all happy about that now. There really isn't an instrument that Travis can't play to my kno
