" Guitarist-composer Cristian Amigo straddles the contemporary-classical, improv and rock worlds; no wonder he calls his Kingdom of Jones a “new music jam-band.” During any given performance,

Messiaen grapples with Led Zeppelin while Perez Prado teaches Stravinsky to mambo."

- TIME OUT NEW YORK

“Cristian Amigo is an excellent creative artist, guitarist and composer whose works reflect his concern with tradition and innovation in creative music in America.

- AACM composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith

“ I kind of hate myself for digging this abrasive clatter [War is Good for Business] because it’s galaxies away from my Beatles- and Beethoven-forged sense of composition. But it rocks real hard against its orchestra of bloops and bleeps, and then breaks down to a mournful sound collage. A great theme for Halliburton’s symphony of opportunism.

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4. -“Blistering guitar work”
   

5. -- WHITE FUNGUS Magazine
   

“a defiant sound world of freedom [Kingdom of Jones]”

- composer/producer Philip Blackburn

“...your songs [points of departure], with their sadness, have beauty.”

Susana Baca (Afro-Peruvian singer, folklorist)

“I am listening to Kingdom of Jones…really beautiful stuff-nice landscapes-I’m really enjoying this.”

- Matthew Shipp (composer/pianist)

“There are some striking moments [SQ No. 1] and what a propulsive, colorful performance by the Jack Quartet!”

-David Harrington/Kronos Quartet

“...it [String Quartet No. 1] is lovely stuff.”

-Dorothy Lawson of Ethel String Quartet

[Kingdom of Jones] is...wonderfully rangy and atmospheric."

- heavyweight opera composer Mark Adamo

"This [LA Live Sessions/Vol. 1] is new music full of passion and simpatico among the players.

These fine musicians are very sensitive and supportive as they listen to and help each other.

Together, they achieve an overall sound that defies category."

- jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell

“Terrific music [Nylons opera]”

- Pulitzer and Academy award-winning  John Corigliano

“You’re hot, really...you’re hot.”  [reading/performance of Minotaur]

- Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman

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2. -“One of America’s cutting edge composers”
   

3. -- UC Riverside music dept.
   

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“That music is out! [Kingdom of Jones]”

- film composer Tyler Bates (the 300)

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“Your track [war is good for business from Kingdom of Jones] is fantastic.”

-composer Randall Woolf

“What did you do with that orchestra piece [Brooklyn Dances for Orchestra]?”

-American composer and strong-man Fred Ho

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“The guitar playing on there [KOJ] is off the charts.”

-TV/film composer Jim Lang (“Hey Arnold” - loved that cartoon-CA)

“It is indeed your time. Looooved the record. Well done.”

-TV producer extraordinaire Mark Schwahn

“Your music has legs.”

-American composer Byron Adams

“I am really enjoying your CD [KOJ]”

David Gans - “Dead to the World”  KPFA 94.1 in Berkeley

You [Amigo] are a Segoviarockero!"

-poeta Juan Felipe Herrera

"He [Amigo] sucks!"

-guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto