Ernest Hood
Ernest Hood (died 1995) was a musician, composer and radio broadcaster from Portland, Oregon. A jazz guitarist in his youth, he switched to the zither after polio left him in a wheelchair. He is known for Neighborhoods (1975), a private-press album that sets zither and early synthesizers against field recordings of neighborhood life, now seen as an early piece of ambient music.
Neighborhoods
2022 Repress expected to ship early November - Ernest Hood’s Neighborhoods was released some two decades after the Portland, Oregon born and raised musician’s first forays into field recordings. These very recordings, and those captured over interve…
Back To The Woodlands
Written and recorded between 1972 and 1982 in Western Oregon, Back to the Woodlands is a previously unreleased, and nearly lost, album made by Ernest Hood during the same era as his near mythical album Neighborhoods. A visionary combination of field…