Artist description Harry Nagle (aka Sonic Cover) sculpts sound that groove and transport. Growing up on 70's pop, and having explored punk, blues, avante-garde jazz, middle eastern and modern classical music, Sonic Cover weaves a blanket of vibes cool enough to keep you warm and cozy.

Music Style Trip-Hop, Dance, Jungle

Musical Influences Fila Brazillia, DJ Krush, Air, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Chemical Brothers

Similar Artists Fila Brazillia, Groove Armada, Tricky, Air

Artist History Sonic Cover, aka Harry Nagle [b 1962 Harrisburg, Pa] has been a composer/keyboardist/guitarist for over 20 years. His latest pseudonymous offering,"Tambourine Slang," brings together all his genre-hopping during the last 2 decades, mixing hip-hop, rock, jazz and avante garde classical music into an electronic format.Nagle grew up on the opera his mother sang and the big band jazz of his parents generation combined with the rock/pop music of the Seventies. |n his first years of composing, he wrote his songs on piano. Later, at age 16, he became inspired by the Punk revolution and started playing guitar. He co-founded the punk outfit The Rage in 1978 with Chris Whitaker [HP Zinker], and Ike Machamer [Kelly Township]. Nagle moved to NYC in 1983 to make New Wave music, but a drinking problem forced him to leave and enter a treatment center in Pa. While in Pa, Nagle explored producing his own synth-based recordings while working as a dj/newscaster on local radio. After moving back to NYC in 1985, Nagle joined the hardcore band White Plastic. Then, inspired by the likes of Bauhaus, he explored goth music in Freudian Slip with perennial cohort Barb Morrison. In the late 80's he teamed up again with Chris Whitaker to form the avante garde art rock band Trial and Error. The band then mutated into the avante garde jazz improv ensemble Key of Z. Nagle also joined NYC's East Village mainstays Bloodsuckers from Outer Space for a time as guitarist. In 1992, Nagle teamed up once again with Morrison [ex-Gutterboy] to form the power-pop and classic-rock-influenced Itchy Trigger Finger, opening for such acts as Ben Folds Five, Everclear, Face to Face and Freedy Johnston. The band also toured with the 1995 Lollapalooza festival . Nagle also penned the song "Burst" which was featured in the award-winning indie film "David Searching." In 1998, Nagle left ITF to pursue a solo career playing yet another new style: Folk. Nagle released "The Astrid Tapes" which was critically praised by reviewers as "beautifully haunting," and "raw yet poetic." The song Halo was chosen for the feature film, "Drowning on Dry Land" starring Barbara Hershey and Naveen Andrews. As a featured artist, a number of his songs broke the top 100 on the website MP3.com in 1999."I've always known that I loved music too much to stick to playing one style. But, I feel that with Sonic Cover I can fuse a multitude of genres together in a process that helps me express this love of music." This love and excitement comes through on Tambourine Slang. Combining electronica, hip-hop, rock, jazz and avante garde classical Sonic Cover's debut does cover a lot of musical ground. From the bombastic Shirley Bassey-type choruses on "You Stare" to the dark hip-hop/jazz of The Garrison to the loungey funk of "Randy's Good Cut," Nagle snakes through a veritable history of modern music, putting his own imprimatur on each track. "Its fun being free," says Nagle while twiddling synth knobs in his living room. "I'm in the flow. I have an idea and I can make it real. Being a musician at this point in history is an incredible opportunity. New technologies are helping the divisions between genres to crumble and blur."Currently, Sonic Cover can be heard as a favorite of Delphine Blue on her show "Shocking Blue" on WFMU in NYC.

Group Members Harry Nagle, Paul Gil - bass, Andy Mazo - bass, Linda Lloyd - vocals

Albums Tambourine Slang (2001)

Location New York, NY - USA

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