Skyrider

Ten Days In A Coma And SkyRider Is Reborn. Bud Berning Awoke In A Mexican Hospital Tied To A Bed One Eye Sewn Shut And Body Crushed. Tubes Ran In And Out Of His Body. Countless Machines Bleep-Bleeped Incessantly. Bud Had Suffered Serious Head Trauma Was Heavily Medicated And Plagued By Hallucinations For A Sleepless Week. He Did Not Know Where He Was Or How He Had Gotten There. The Time Passed Slowly And The World Rushed On. When Bud Berning Was Reassembled From His Scattered Pieces And Fused With The Inorganic His Former Passions Being Hindered By A Broken Body He Found Art In Technology. With His Computer And A Few Hacked Programs He Stitched Together Musical Tapestries From The Destruction And The Mending Of Organic Sounds That Like His Body Were Collaborations Between Natural And Artificial Functions. With His Debut Album 47 34 Released Under The Name SkyRider Released On The Canadian Label Endemik Music The Listener Experiences The Ether Of The Subconscious Permeating Into Traumatized Reality. The Album Flows In Psychedelic Bursts Of Swirling Sounds With Hiccuping Rhythms Which Are Startlingly Interrupted By Sobering Relics Of Reality. Each Song Resonates Of The Melancholy And Appreciation Of A Life Almost Taken It Is An Opus To The Resilience Of Man Yet Each Song A Concession To The Fragility Of Man's Condition. When Asked To Simulate His Album Live Berning Called Together A Band That Could Recreate The Sporadic And Eclectic Sounds From His Heavily Sample Infused Album. John Wagner Was Widely Known As An Innovative Thoughtful Drummer. Since Stepping On Board He Has Refined His Techniques And Augmented His Gear Such That He Can Easily Create The Rhythmic Soundscapes And Textures Which Are So Deeply Ingrained In The SkyRider Sound. William Ryan Fritch Was A Multi-Instrumentalist And Composer Who Had Worked With Berning On Several Pieces He Was Producing After His Album's Release. Fritch And Berning Had An Immediate Musical Bond Together Having The Versatility To Create Songs In Nearly Any Genre. Since SkyRider Has Been Performing And Recording With Wagner And Fritch They Have Become A Three-Ring Circus Of Multitasking Sampling And Looping Such That Their Sound Is As Large As The Scope Of Their Influences. SkyRider Has Recorded And Produced Tracks On Albums Released Worldwide And Remixed Songs For Recording Artists That Have Been Released In North America Europe Japan And Australia. As A Band SkyRider Has Composed And Produced Scores For Films Backed Up And Recorded For Many Acclaimed Artists And MC's And Formed A Band With The Legendary Underground Rapper/poet Sole. The Sole And The SkyRider Band Debut Was Released In October Of 2007 On Anticon Records And Was Quickly Recognized As A Seminal By Many And Is Widely Considered Sole's Most Mature And Accomplished Album To Date. According To Popmatters "working Closely With Multi-Instrumentalist William Fritch And Apt Programmer Bud Berning Filling In The Holes Augmented By The Odd Piece Of Live Drumming They Don’t Just Recreate But Reinvent The Formulas Which Have Become Standard In Underground Rap And Sole’s Own Work. They Embrace The Record Popping Sci-Fi Synth Classic Blues And Soul Sampling Swagger Which Gives Holland’s Fierce Social Commentary Its Punch But The Live Human Element As Always Puts It All Over The Top." Performer Magazine Hailed "Sole And The Skyrider Band’s Self-Titled Album Achieves A Raw Aggression And Unique Dynamic That Many Artists Never Accomplish." After Touring The World In Support Of This Latest Release SkyRider Has Assembled A Collection Of New And Reimagined Songs For The Trio's Debut Album Coming Out On The Band's Own Label Sticks And Stones Distributed By Revolver This Fall. Recorded At Wavelab Studios In Tucson Arizona The Trio Captured Their Psychedelic Electronica Chamber-Rock Sound In The Timeless Fidelity Of Two Inch Tape. Skyrider Is Currently Recording The New Sole And Skyrider Record And Has Recently Relocated To Los Angeles. read less