Glen Neff - The Sound Poet's Music
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  • KUNM 89.9 FM Radio interview with Glen Neff
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Glen Neff - composer,musician,artist,designer & builder... organic and romantic. Born in New Jersey into a family of artists & musicians (both grandfathers were violinists), Neff grew up in Kansas, Colorado and California, performing in bands and composing & writing music from the beginning. Neff earned a BA degree from San Diego State University, and was on the College surfing team. Neff was the producer and performed in the Carlsbad Library Concert Series in the 1970's and gave concerts at Carlsbad Performing Arts Center for local TV. Other concerts followed at Mendocino Arts Center in conjunction with an art opening of Neff's paintings. He performed at the Santa Rosa Arts Center, San Diego Art Walk Blue Door Studio-where Neff resided, and in New Mexico at The Madrid World Music & Dance Festival and Mad World festival that he organized. Glen Neff's music has been featured as sound track for films: Mean as Hell, Qi Gong-work out video, Confessions, Heart & Soil, Mesa by Moonlight, Sugarite Canyon N.M. State Park theme music, Slow Down, Terpsichore and others. Glen Neff has been reviewed in Keyboard, San Diego Reader, Option and others. Neff has done interviews featuring his music on KUNM 89.9 FM "Ear to the Ground" and KBAC FM Radio in Santa Fe. Neff's music has regular airplay on KUNM's Freeform show and on internet radio. His music is available on Itunes and other online stores.

Glen Neff is currently in Sonic Fleur  with Jill Alikas St. Thomas. They're musical marriage offers a broad pallette of all original world electronica lounge. Neff lives in Cerrillos/Madrid New Mexico with Eliane Allegre in a round straw-bale house he designed and built as featured in New Mexico Magazine April 2007.

Review from San Diego Reader:
"With an extra measure of jazz chops, Glen Neff is head and shoulders above the Budd/Eno clones in his sophisticated use of harmonics,rhythm's and synth voicings. His music is as adventurous and lively as much of that other stuff is predictable and cumbersome. Synthesist Neff is a true improvisor and a reflexive expert at reacting to himself on tape. This one-man interactivity is compelling in and of itself, but really counts are the basic building blocks of Neff's music- the notes themselves. Since the the compositions are initiated spontaneously and later embellished, the musical mind of the initiator had best be fertile. Tis'. Neff,to a degree, shows the results of a jazz background in his extemporaneous melodicism , but he hasn't got a bunch of rote bop licks to trot out. The innocence of his lines works extraordinarily well with the complexity of his construction. The more traditional textures , the ones to which words like "majestic" are usually applied are here made into something more substantial, thanks once again to Neff's melodic ingenuity and a decidedly avante-garde bent in the peripheral activity, plenty for an inquisitive brain to chew on." Mike Keneally(Frank Zappa).