Concrete, smoke, and fever dreams in an age of lockdowns…
Recorded and produced by RK for Master Element Mobile Sound Labs.

Story One

Story Six

Story Five

Story Four

Story Three

Story Two

Return To Vulture World

Who doesn't like a dark alleyway every so often?
Recorded and produced by RK for Master Element Mobile Sound Labs.
All songs RK/Ten Days Music BMI.
Many Thanks to Carl Stone and Joan Jeanrenaud.
Vulture Graphic courtesy Manuel Ocampo.

Return To Vulture World

My Life Above A Hole In The Ground
A short autobiographical statement...

From the album “Reaction Time”
Recorded and produced by RK for Master Element Mobile Sound Labs.
All songs RK/Ten Days Music BMI.

My Life Above A Hole In The Ground

Miracle Mile Song

From the album “It’s Never What It Seems”
Recorded and produced by RK for Master Element Mobile Sound Labs.
All songs RK/Ten Days Music BMI.

Miracle Mile Song

A Sigh Comes Across The Sky

From the album “Guitars, Real Or Imagined Volume One”.
Some sounds start out as a guitar, but sometimes they don’t remain that way…
Recorded and produced by RK for Master Element Mobile Sound Labs.
All songs RK/Ten Days Music BMI.

A Sigh Comes Across The Sky

The Victim's Dream

Recorded and produced by RK for Master Element Mobile Sound Labs, New York City, USA.
All songs RK/Ten Days Music BMI.
Dream painting detail Manuel Ocampo. Graphics RK.
“Master Element Mobile Sound Labs—when we’re there, we ARE there!”

The Victim's Dream

Roger Kleier (guitar), Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboards), Reuben Radding (Bass), Christine Bard (Drums). From the Rift CD “KlangenBang”. If you wish to buy the CD, go to: www.downtownmusicgallery.com/

Drop Channel

Roger Kleier (guitar), Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboards), Kato Hideki (bass), Christine Bard (electrodrums). From the Rift CD “KlangenBang”. If you wish to buy the CD, go to: www.downtownmusicgallery.com/

Crabmeat Shag

From the CD "Deep Night, Deep Autumn" (Starkland ST-211) 
Roger Kleier (Guitars), Annie Gosfield (Keyboards). For more info: www.starkland.com/st211/
To purchase this release: https://rogerkleier.bandcamp.com/album/roger-kleier-deep-night-deep-autumn
Released by:
Starkland

Woodside Meteor

From the CD "The Night Has Many Hours" (Innova 685) 
Roger Kleier (guitars).  For more info: https://www.innova.mu/albums/roger-kleier/night-has-many-hours
Released by:
Innova

Deluge: Devil Take The Most

From the CD "The Night Has Many Hours" (Innova 685)
 Roger Kleier (guitars), Annie Gosfield (organ solo).  For more info: https://www.innova.mu/albums/roger-kleier/night-has-many-hours
Released by:
Innova

Knuckleduster

From the CD "The Night Has Many Hours" (Innova 685)
 Roger Kleier (guitars), Joan Jeanrenaud (cello).  Myles Boisen (tracking engineer), Roger Kleier (mix engineer). For more info: https://www.innova.mu/albums/roger-kleier/night-has-many-hours
Released by:
Innova

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The Night Has Many Hours

Maximum Strength Editions Volume One
A collection of tasty sound treats culled from the library of the Master Element Mobile Sound Labs.
Recorded and produced by RK for Master Element.

Last Exit Before The Horizon

The Broken  Rhodes of Colossus

The Broken Rhodes Of Colossus

Bonecrusher

The Crabmeat Remix

Hellfire Canyon

Cargo Cult World Headquarters

The Ground Was Cold 
Scenes from altered landscapes, mirages, and forgotten mythologies…
Recorded and produced by RK for Master Element Mobile Sound Labs.
Painting detail courtesy of Manuel Ocampo

Scene Seven

Scene Six

Scene Five

Transmissions From Second Avenue
Static, the indecipherable, and longing for connection…
Recorded and produced by RK for Master Element Mobile Sound Labs.

All songs RK/Ten Days Music BMI

Bone And Knife, Again

Diary Of A Hornet

Roger Kleier is a composer, guitarist, and improviser who began playing electric guitar at age thirteen after discovering Captain Beefheart and Jimi Hendrix on the radio airwaves of Los Angeles. He studied composition at North Texas State University and the University of Southern California, and has developed a unique style that draws equally from improvisation, contemporary classical music, and the American guitar traditions of blues, jazz, and rock. Much of his compositional work involves the development of a broader vocabulary for the electric guitar through the use of extended techniques and digital sound manipulation. He has also written new works for soloists and chamber groups. Roger describes his approach to composing: “Having grown up in Los Angeles, I’ve always had an attraction to noir ambience. My music has often been inspired by the dark and hidden experiences of life, such as urban chaos, cold and icy winters, empty alleyways, deserted subway tunnels, dank Los Angeles River aqueducts, and even a quiet pool of sinister beauty”.

Roger Kleier

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