Cloudkicker
Cloudkicker is the solo project of Columbus, Ohio-based guitarist Ben Sharp, a commercial airline pilot who has released instrumental post-metal and djent music under that alias since 2007. Sharp composes, records, and engineers everything himself, and has distributed all releases as pay-what-you-want downloads under Creative Commons licensing, amassing an unusually large following for a DIY studio project. His breakthrough album Beacons arrived in 2010, and a short touring run in 2014 with Intronaut as a backing band marked his only live performances.
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Cloudkicker Discography
10 tracks
- 1 Genesis Device 2:09
- 2 Dysphoria 4:44
- 3 Avalanche 5:15
- 4 Everything's Mirrors 2:01
- 5 Viceroy 4:43
- 6 segue: 2:59
- 7 The Discovery 8:16
- 8 Covington 2:30
- 9 Triumverate! 1:03
- 10 States 6:07
5 tracks
- 1 Hold On 5:05
- 2 Tip Your Van Driver 3:40
- 3 Seriosity 5:15
- 4 The Map is Not the Territory 3:21
- 5 Ever Thus to Deadbeats 8:34
4 tracks
- 1 Fourteen Nights 4:48
- 2 Modulator/Demodulator 4:12
- 3 Of Smoke and Fog 4:50
- 4 God Be With Ye 6:22
11 tracks
- 1 We are going to invert... 0:41
- 2 Here, wait a minute! Damn it! 1:47
- 3 We're goin' in. We're going down. 5:15
- 4 Oh, God. 5:40
- 5 I admit it now. I was scared. 2:04
- 6 We were all scared. 2:29
- 7 Push it way up! 7:16
- 8 ...it's just wide-open field. 2:21
- 9 It's bad. We're hit, man, we are hit. 6:01
- 10 Amy, I love you. 7:56
- 11 untitled 2:16
8 tracks
- 1 Welcome Back 1:42
- 2 Explore, Be Curious 5:31
- 3 The Word Water 1:44
- 4 You and Yours 4:48
- 5 One, Many 1:01
- 6 It's inside me, and I'm inside it 5:07
- 7 This Isn't 1:20
- 8 Let Yourself Be Huge 4:21
8 tracks
- 1 From the Balcony 4:40
- 2 The Focus 3:12
- 3 Seattle 10:18
- 4 Garage Show 2:38
- 5 L.A. After Rain 6:30
- 6 Making Will Mad 6:01
- 7 Our Crazy Night 8:09
- 8 Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown 2:06
4 tracks
- 1 The warmth of the daytime seemed like a dream now. 5:29
- 2 A weather front was stalled out in the Pacific--like a lonely person, lost in thought, oblivious of time. 16:23
- 3 He would be riding on the subway or writing formulas on the blackboard or having a meal or (as now) sitting and talking to someone across a table, and it would envelop him like a soundless tsunami. 8:48
- 4 You could laugh forever but never end up happy. 9:33
9 tracks
- 1 Subsume, Pt. 1 - live studio recording 4:34
- 2 Subsume, Pt. 2 - live studio recording 5:07
- 3 We Are Going to Invert... / Here, Wait a Minute, Damn It! - live studio recording 2:20
- 4 We're Goin' in, We're Going Down. - live studio recording 5:06
- 5 Seriosity - live studio recording 4:53
- 6 You and Yours - live studio recording 5:11
- 7 Dysphoria - live studio recording 5:20
- 8 Subsume, Pt. 8 - live studio recording 4:31
- 9 Push It Way Up! - live studio recording 6:42
7 tracks
- 1 Intro to Woum 1:54
- 2 Trim Splint 3:13
- 3 Emfargo 2:51
- 4 Plurals 6:02
- 5 Threaded 4:05
- 6 Dovetail 4:40
- 7 Mou 2:10
7 tracks
- 1 Night 2:18
- 2 Xaoc 7:20
- 3 Blackwing 5:39
- 4 AR-Lp 36 2:26
- 5 YHWH 3:35
- 6 Wall 0:42
- 7 Void 6:06
12 tracks
- 1 Ludendorffbrücke 2:16
- 2 What They Do Is Not Art 4:45
- 3 Code Language 4:47
- 4 Ashtabula 4:10
- 5 I'm glad you still have a sense of humor... 2:23
- 6 ...I wouldn't if I were you. 1:36
- 7 94 Days 5:41
- 8 Banqiao 6:27
- 9 Not to Scale or Painted 6:11
- 10 Off His Way 2:33
- 11 Sandö 5:41
- 12 crawl spaces 1:56
12 tracks
- 1 The Warmth of the Daytime 1:08
- 2 Seemed Like a Dream Now 2:25
- 3 A Weather Front Was Stalled Out in the Pacific 1:19
- 4 Like a Lonely Person 4:55
- 5 Lost in Thought 2:49
- 6 Oblivious 5:50
- 7 Of Time 1:28
- 8 He Would Be Riding on the Subway 4:12
- 9 And It Would Envelop Him Like a Soundless Tsunami 4:36
- 10 You Could Laugh Forever 3:47
- 11 But Never End Up Happy 5:54
- 12 Two Moons 3:52
2 tracks
- 1 Loop 2020 27:56
- 2 Loop 2011 26:58
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