Alex Vissia - Young Love - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Whenever we think of the greatest guitar players of all-time, Steve Morse is a name that's always in the conversation. The American musician started his career in the mid-70s playing mind-melting jazz-rock in The Dixie Dregs, racking up multiple Grammy nominations in the process. The following decade he formed the Steve Morse Band and joined arena heavyweights Kansas, before being recruited by rock and roll originals Deep Purple in 1994. And despite being in one of the world's biggest bands, he continued to innovate in other projects like Living Loud, Angelfire and Flying Colors - as well as guitar supergroup G3 - showing the world just how much versatility there was in those magic fingers. He announced his departure from Deep Purple in 2022, choosing to take care of his wife who passed away in 2024, by that point having become their longest serving guitar player. Naturally, the last few years have been the most personally traumatic of his life - which is perhaps why this year's creative comeback with the new Steve Morse Band album Triangulation embodies the spirit of a master returning to do what he does best. It's nine tracks are a thrilling ride through the mind of a musician who seemingly knows no bounds, crossing over into a cornucopia of sounds and styles from funk and blues to classical and metal. He is someone who has written some of the most powerful instrumental music the world has ever heard and certainly knows a thing or two about how to make his guitar resonate and command just as much attention as the human voice

Carter Sampson - Lucky [COMPACT DISCS] UK - Import date 06/08/2018

Denovali presents Spark and Earth, the ninth full length album from acclaimed NYC-based composer and performer Mario Diaz de Leon. Long celebrated for his electroacoustic chamber music, Spark and Earth is the first of Diaz de Leon's solo albums to foreground his performance as a metal guitarist, alongside a vividly textured electronic ensemble of terse synth stabs, woodwind and vocal timbres, floor rattling synth bass, and propulsive kick drums.Since 2009, Diaz de Leon has released four recordings of his collaborations with chamber ensembles (International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea, TAK), while from 2012-2016 he produced three solo electronic albums under the project name Oneirogen. With the two-song album Heart Thread (2022), he began releasing electronic works under his own name. His music has been celebrated over the last decade for it's Inchhallucinatory intensityInch (New York Times), Inchsnarling exuberanceInch (Pitchfork), and Inchremarkable textures and vivid atmosphereInch (New Yorker Magazine). As collaborator, he is guitarist and vocalist in the extreme metal duo Luminous Vault (Profound Lore Records), and performs synth and drum machine in Bloodmist, an electroacoustic improvisation trio with Jeremiah Cymerman and Toby Driver. In 2023, he collaborated with Eartheater and members of Krallice in a performance of songs from her album Trinity. Since 2019, he has taught at Stevens Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor of Music and Technology.A1. AquaA2. CrucesA3. TemploA4. Breath of GodA5. Mirror SpiritB1. Lithic FlameB2. CarnelianB3. KephaB4. Elemental