Artist Biography

Johnny Asia, Guitarist from the Future

"Johnny Asia hails from Woodstock, N.Y., so the cosmic energy may just be in the water. Whatever the source, Asia's transcendent, genre-spanning guitar journeys chart new musical cartographies, juxtaposing Django Reinhardt-like hard swing with dangling fusion harmonics and the space-age chord structures of John McLaughlin." - Editors' Picks in Worldbeat at Download.com Music

"Johnny Asia is a supernova of a player, spinning cosmic melodies at the speed of light." - Nov. 4, 2004 Chronogram, Mid-Hudson Magazine of Events & Ideas - "Nightlife Highlights"

"....strums that sent up an effervescence of notes...the mans' fusion of classic-flamenco-cosmological remains eternally memorable.....the music is a beatific mind-blow....." - Kitty Montgomery, Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY Sunday, Jan. 11, 2004

"When a man describes himself as a "guitarist from the future" the warning bells go off, ... But Johnny Asia really sounds like he's doing something new. .....Check the mans' music out and hear something different." - Nick Dedina, Staff Writer, Listen.com Your Guide to Online Music

"If you want to know what the future of music sounds like..listen to Johnny Asia, then you'll know!" - Jazz Guitarist Dom Minasi

"I love your playing. I am listening to your Matador tune... lots of fire and heart. Hope to meet you one day.....all innovators get negative comments. People don't like change or growth. To me it means you're doing something right. Keep doing what you're doing. Much success to you." - Jazz guitarist Jimmy Bruno

"Johnny's music is universal in the truest sense of the term. It embraces the musics of this world and anticipates those yet to be discovered in the future. In a concert at Pauline Oliveros Foundation's Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Johnny's riveting performance transported the audience across time to places MTV can only dream about." - Joe McPhee

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