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Michael Garfield is making music for which new words must be invented – vocally athletic percussive future-folk and improvised instrumental electronica, a marriage of charismatic stage presence and dazzling technique combining avant-fingerstyle work with sixty pounds of guitar pedals. Singing and playing while twisting knobs and DJ'ing live samples with his toes, Michael's performances are an embodiment of his training as an evolutionary biologist and cyberdelic poet-philosopher – liberating the organic into the digital, and the idioms of Americana into a new species of transcendental trance.
"Welcome to the future...Michael is a pioneer exploring the edge realms where the electric and old world meet."
- LostInSound
"It takes creativity to make the next step in a newer, more shocking direction, but it takes a visionary to go beyond the breaking point and meet music on the other end of the spectrum. That’s what Michael Garfield does."
- TheUntz
"Intoxicating, rejuvenating, and unapologetically spiritual work...entertaining songs that completely upend the stereotypes of intelligent music...instantly memorable and utterly magnetic tunes whose authenticity and sweetness is boundary breaking."
- Reality Sandwich
"It takes creativity to make the next step in a newer, more shocking direction, but it takes a visionary to go beyond the breaking point and meet music on the other end of the spectrum. That’s what Michael Garfield does."
Evan Townsend - The Untz
"Welcome to the future...Michael is a pioneer exploring the edge realms where the electric and old world meet."
Matt Bovard - LostInSound
"Monstrously talented...an act the likes of which I have not seen in a long time."
Willy Porter
"Intoxicating, rejuvenating, and unapologetically spiritual work...entertaining songs that completely upend the stereotypes of what one may think of as intelligent music...instantly memorable and utterly magnetic tunes whose authenticity and sweetness is boundary breaking."
Michael Richardson - Reality Sandwich
"Amazing to watch and even more amazing to listen to."
TwoGroove.com (interview)
"Michael Garfield has some absolutely amazing chops...the musicianship on this album is truly wonderful."
Marquee Magazine
"Astonishing...insane guitar talent."
Smother Magazine
"Watching your show the other day was a PROFOUND spiritual experience for me...a highlight of my musical experiences up till this point. Dude, you hit me on the deepest soul level."
DJ Dreamcode
"Could listen to you play all day, man...you would kill on the college scene."
Dave Tamkin, HeadAbove Music
"An accomplished writer, performer, composer and painter on top of being a skilled guitarist...His personality is as interesting and compelling as his music and art."
Guitar International (interview)
