Tonecluster Music
Instrumental and progressive rock music.
About
Tonecluster Music was created to distribute progressive-rock, jazz-rock fusion, and ambient groove music. We're located in San Francisco, CA, USA. You'll find a few of our releases in our music section. Do you have some music you'd like us to hear? Contact us and send a link to your SoundCloud or BandCamp page.
Music
Inventions of Diffusion
Brilliant prog-jazz fusion featuring the bass work of Mirko Borach, the keyboards of Jason Rubenstein, and the guitars of Dan van den Berg. Progressive rock, funk, flamenco, and jazz come together in thirteen original songs.
Inventions of Diffusion
Funky bass, shredding electric guitar, progressive rock journeys, funky jazz-fusion adventures, live flamenco, killer drums.
A brilliant combination of genres for thirteen groove-based fusion songs. Jazzy, funky prog-rock.
Four Point of Focus
Heavy instrumental progressive/fusion rock. 4 new tracks.
Four Point of Focus
Heavy piano, synthesizers, samplers, bass guitar, and drums. This is not your usual heavy music.
It defies convention and conventional wisdom, and trades 7 strings for 88.
Four long-form, heavy instrumental songs, with Tom Hipskind and Shawn Sommer, with
special guests Bugra Sisman, Chuck Bontrager, and Dan van den Berg.
Four Named Narratives
Heavy instrumental progressive/fusion rock. 6 new tracks.
Four Named Narratives
Heavy piano, synthesizers, samplers, bass guitar, and drums. This is not your usual heavy music.
It defies convention and conventional wisdom, and trades 7 strings for 88.
Four long-form, heavy instrumental songs, written in December of 2014 and produced over 2015 and 2016.
Each song is a narrative; three are essays in the form of music. One is a short story.
New Metal From Old Boxes
Heavy instrumental progressive rock.
New Metal From Old Boxes
Written, performed and produced by Jason Rubenstein.
“New Metal From Old Boxes” features classic, loud rock production and a movie-like tension-filled soundtrack vibe.
Imagine if King Crimson, ELP, NiN, Wendy Carlos, and Philip Glass got together to score the soundtrack for a heist movie.
This Is Not A Love Letter
A 5-track EP of heavy rock instrumentals.
This is Not a Love Letter
An EP of heavy rock instrumentals from keyboardist Jason Rubenstein. Four of the tracks were written and recorded in preparation for the full-length LP "New Metal from Old Boxes", and one ("The Templar Calling Card") from the LP recording sessions.
Loud, heavy tracks infused with King Crimson, 1970s synthesizers, and modern heavy rock and metal.
The drums are huge and the piano weighs a ton.
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Ambient and ambient groove. Late night listening.
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Try this album with headphones.
Late night listening of ambient and ambient-groove.
Cathedral
Progressive/ambient/jazz fusion.
Cathedral
A blending of multiple genres: progressive rock, ambient, downtempo, jazz, celtic, blues.
Live piano, drums and fretless bass in addition to sampled and sequenced beats and sounds.
This music spans uptempo prog-rock trio, downtempo ambient-groove, and pure ambient.
Contact
If you have instrumental rock, progressive rock, progressive metal, or ambient music you'd like us to hear, send us a link to one or two of your best tracks from your SoundCloud or Bandcamp page. Please do not attach any files or mp3s. We'll just delete them.