Bostjan Zupancic
Bostjan Zupancic is a physicist and 19-EDO guitarist/bassist. He has released 5 independent microtonal solo albums and participated in two microtonal bands.
Prior to playing microtonal music, Zupancic performed lead guitar and lead vocals for the non-micro Detroit-based power metal band Khereb, and composed music for indy films and indy video games.
In 2010, Zupancic published a comprehensive list of scales for 12-EDO and 19-EDO.
Discography:
Monsters (2001 - non-micro) Emotions (2002 - non-micro) Quiet Please (2015 - mixture of 12-EDO, 19-EDO, and 24-EDO) Vol I (2016 - 19-EDO) Happy Halloween (2016 - 19-EDO) Vol II (2017 - 19-EDO) Nothing Special (2017 - 19-EDO) Life Cycle (with Naegleria Fowleri, 2018 - 19-EDO)
Quiet Please (2015) featured both standard and microtonal songs heavily inspired by the Old Time Radio program "Quiet, Please" (written by Wyllis Cooper). The album was released only on home-made CD-R and received very little public attention, until it started to receive weekly airplay on college radio. The musical style of the release ranged from Funk-rock (Thirteen and Eight) to Heavy MEtal (Beezer's Cellar) to Electronica (The Pathetic Fallacy).
Vol I (2016) was performed entirely in 19-EDO tuning. The album, mostly modern hard rock/metal in style, was released on CD and digital media to mixed reviews, but received limited syndicated airplay.
Happy Halloween (2016) was also performed entirely in 19-EDO. The release featured instrumental tracks with some sound effects and spoken word. It was released digitally, but promotional physical copies were also distributed at concerts between October and November of 2016. The track "Brain for Breakfast" was the first instance of 19-tone serialism.
Vol II (2017) was the direct follow-up to Vol I, and was met with mostly negative reviews.
Nothing Special (2017) was released on CD to mixed reviews. With positive reviews lauding the creativity of the music and the relatability of the lyrics, and negative reviews focusing on the long playtime of some of the tracks and lack of unified musical direction.
Naegleria Fowleri (2018) was released digitally to very polarized reviews. Featuring an avante-garde death metal musical style, AI drums, and a squawking parrot lead vocalist, the musical concept was coherent but also oddly specific.