The eclectic punker in a suit, Julz A, is an accordion alternative, singing and rapping while playing the squeeze box. His sound, Squeeze Rock, is placed among such rapping proliferations as Beck, Talib Kweli and Del The Funky Homosapien.
In Squeeze Rock, his solo CD debut, Julz A uses the accordion as a central figure in the rock riffs of his songs. A rapping version of Jimi Hendrix on the accordion, his sound is fundamentally alternative rock music. Julz A pushes the envelope in how melodic guitar-driven music alters the way we listen to hip-hop and rapping, with a musical laboratory of raw accordion polyphony. The album’s personnel is simple, but the use of accordion pushes the CD’s eclectic sound into the same category as Beck, Outkast, early De La Soul and The Beastie Boys.