Christopher Alvarado + Band in Salt Lake City, UT

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ABOUT

With a diverse musical background spanning more than two decades, Chris Alvarado continues to create music that pushes new sounds and captures audiences located near his Salt Lake City-based studio to listeners around the world. Alvarado’s career began in 1985 when his musical passion was ignited by the SLC punk scene. He started playing bass guitar, joining his first band, Harsh Reality (S.L.C.), a band that started new trends towards the mid 80’s. Today, Alvarado plays classical/electric guitar, bass, drums, percussion and keyboards, creating music that crosses over many genres, including ambient, acoustic, noise and atmosphere. More recently, Alvarado’s projects capture new sounds of electro-acoustics and computer-generated noise. Though involved in a multitude of projects over the years, Alvarado’s most popular projects include 23 Extacy, synthetically generated aggressive and dark hardcore industrial music; Roses & Exile, featuring guest vocalists with lyrics written by Alvarado; and Twilight Transmissions, purely instrumental music with ambient noise manipulation. Each project has its own sound, but also exudes Alvarado’s unique musical personality. With years of experience working with more than 150 artists, releasing 14 disks,6 compilations and guest artist on 4 others. Bands include Harsh Reality (S.L.C.), B.F.D., Shiv, Beat Iron Blue, Genocidal Existence and Void, to name a few. Alvarado continues to explore new musical frontiers, breaking traditional music models and paving the way for the next generation of musicians. novaoneprod

Screen name:

Alvarado

Member since:

May 19 2010

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years together:

1

Gigs played:

Over 100

Age:

52 years

Influences

The people I work with.

Members Of Band

So far, myself and The Audio Architect.

EQUIPMENT

Workstations/samplers/acoustic and electric guitars/attempted woodwinds and whatever else is laying around.

MUSIC