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"Various"

“a defiant sound world of freedom [Kingdom of Jones]”
composer/producer Philip Blackburn
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[Kingdom of Jones] is...wonderfully rangy and atmospheric."
heavyweight opera composer Mark Adamo

“Cristian Amigo is an excellent creative artist, guitarist and composer whose works reflect his concern with tradition and innovation in creative music in America."
- composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith
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“ I kind of hate myself for digging this abrasive clatter [War is Good for Business] because it’s galaxies away from my Beatles- and Beethoven-forged sense of composition. But it rocks real hard against its orchestra of bloops and bleeps, and then breaks down to a mournful sound collage. A great theme for Halliburton’s symphony of opportunism.
- Michael Molenda/GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE editor-in-chief

- Pulitzer and Academy award-winning John Corigliano

“That music is out! [Kingdom of Jones]”
- film composer Tyler Bates

“The guitar playing on there [KOJ] is off the charts.”
- TV/film composer Jim Lang (“Hey Arnold” - loved that cartoon-CA)
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“It is indeed your time. Looooved the record. Well done.”
- TV producer extraordinaire Mark Schwahn

“I am really enjoying your CD [KOJ]”
David Gans - “Dead to the World” KPFA 94.1 in Berkeley

"He [Amigo] sucks!"
-guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto

- various


Discography

Kingdom of Jones - Kingdom of Jones (Innova Recordings 2008)

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Cristian Amigo and Kingdom of Jones (KOJ) were signed to Innova Recordings in 2008 with funds from the New York State Music fund, an initiative that then District Attorney Eliot Spitzer (before the scandal) set up from court settlements with music industry gangsters and record companies over Payola schemes.

Kingdom of Jones formed in late 2007 in support of the Innova CD release and have played in various configurations at Bates College, The Flea Theater, CSI CUNY, the Public Theater, the Tank, the Brick Elephant, the Stone, Bennington College, CSU Stanislaus, UC Riverside, CSU Dominguez Hills, and other experimental and rock venues.

Izzi and Cristian met at the College of Staten Island where Amigo was teaching and Izzi was studying electrical engineering and music. Cristian and Gonzalo played in a band together (Six Feet Under) "back in the day" when they were both in the seventh grade.

Amigo is an award-winning composer (Guggenheim Fellowship, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Meet the Composer, Asian Pacific Performance Exchange, etc.) and musician, one of a current generation of musical artists concerned with collapsing the artistic and social hierarchies between Western art musics (classical and jazz) and all music. Known as an acoustic and electric guitarist with an improvising bent, Amigo composes performance works, fierce riffs, art and pop songs, chamber and orchestral music, and theatre and film works.

Izzi Ramkissoon is a composer, bassist and laptopist whose awards include the first prize in composition at the 2007 Look and Listen Music Festival in NYC. On the side, Izzi is an electrical engineer who is working on alternative music controllers and robots - for real.

Gonzalo Martinez de la Cotera is a progressive rock drummer with extensive touring experience including a stint with Marcy Playground. His beats are loud and fierce - like John Bonham meets Elvin Jones.