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Todd Clouser's A Love Electric to release a series of 3 albums in 2012 on Royal Potato Family Records.

Winter 2012 Dates are in - check the calendar page for more.

Blog posts are up a few times a week, check back to see what Todd and the band got happenin'.

April, 2012, Todd Clouser's A Love Electric to tour Mexico with percussionist Cyro Baptista.

A Love Electric Continues to receive critical acclaim - More on Press Page

   "Clouser is on the road to promote a new CD, “A Love Electric,” a title that says a lot about his music — he likes to turn it up and let it rip, but whatever happens after that is wide open. No influence is excluded, and none is better than any other.......The future of jazz probably has a lot of guitar in it. The music of (Julian) Lage and Clouser promises quite a bit for that future. But in their own ways, they’re also delivering the goods right now." - Kansas City Star , Joe Klopus, Weds Feb 16

"A young, genre-defying guitarist, composer, and writer, Todd Clouser is an accomplished musician across the creative music spectrum, leading a unique path to recognition as an act to watch, finding his own voice performing with musicians from Keb Mo to "downtown" NYC jazz legend Steven Bernstein. Clouser's impassioned performances run from piano balladry to dense jazz and groove, exciting audiences with an approach meant to bend the rules of artistic labeling. "A Love Electric" documents Todd's most aggressive ensemble yet, an energetic quintet based in the stylings of 70's era electric jazz." - Dakota Jazz Club

"Clouser is probably best classified as a jazz guitarist, but when you listen to his music, the funk and rock keep you on your toes. And the beauty of it is all the songs have melodies that stick." - Vintage Guitar Magazine - May 2011

" A blistering neo-jazz rock quintet" - The Prague Post, June 15 2011

"It’s jazz and the blues; it’s funk and old-school 70s rock; its good, damn good music. Turn it on and turn it up." - Thewaster.com - Michael J. Bluesman

"A superb CD... an impressive debut. Todd Clouser's tasteful jazz is hardly dinner music.... jazz fans, guitar heads, and music lovers in general will appreciate Clouser and his band." - The Tahoe Daily Tribune, Tim Parsons

"(A Love Electric serves) a catchy amalgam of retro soul and jazz-rock experimentalism.... a hardcore jazz element also crops up." - Jazz Times, April 2011

"Excellent, driving Ropeadope Records debut"... " "sporting avant flourishes and grooves galore...A Love Electric  liberally mixes jazz, funk and rock with compelling results." - Minneapolis Star Tribune - Tom Surowicz

"These days, he leads a blistering neo jazz-rock group called A Love Electric, which harkens back to the hard-bop groove and psychedelic era of the late 1960s. But Clouser doesn't even try to match the virtuosity of fusion jazz-rock guitarists of that decade, instead steering his own electric guitar sound into the 21st century, while keeping clear the influence of Jimi Hendrix." - The Prague Post

"Clouser's gambit isn't the only promising path to reclaim a vibrant audience for jazz. It is, however, one of the most rewarding." -  Plastic Sax Kansas City, http://plasticsax.blogspot.com/

No. 6 Independent Release of 2010 TODD CLOUSER – ‘A LOVE ELECTRIC’ - Something Else! - somethingelsereviews.com

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