Guitarist Todd Clouser is a forward-thinking and adventurous musician with a bent toward modern creative jazz and genre-bending styles of improvised music. A Minneapolis native, Clouser attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, after which he toured as member of the rock band 4 Letter Man. Around 2006, Clouser relocated to Baja, Mexico to rejuvenate and redirect his musical path. Citing such diverse influences as Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Parker, Frank Zappa, Nels Cline, Miles Davis, and others, Clouser released his debut solo album, Baja, in 2007. He returned a year later with Beatnik Highway. Clouser's inventive and eclectic jazz-influenced music eventually caught the ear of the similarly inclined New York trumpeter Steven Bernstein (Sex Mob), who toured Mexico with Clouser in 2009 and 2010 and appeared with Clouser's A Love Electric ensemble on his 2010 eponymous release. In 2012, Todd Clouser's A Love Electric, featuring trumpeter Adam Meckler as well as a guest appearance by Bernstein, released 20th Century Folk Selections. ~ Matt Collar, Rovi
Continuing the legacy of The Experiment Series, Ropeadope teams up with longtime
collaborator and head of Ropeadope SUR Todd Clouser to document the vibrant music scene in
Mexico City. With a great number of world class musicians from Mexico and beyond living in the
city, Clouser chose a close group of adventurous spirts to join him on the project.
‘When I saw that Ropeadope was continuing the Experiment Series with the radical Chicago
Experiment record, I thought now would be the time to do The Mexico City Experiment. To me,
said with bias complete, Mexico City is the center of the new creative world. Film, literature,
sound arts are flying in Mexico. I hoped what we could do something to honor the city that gave
me everything.’ (Todd Clouser)
