Mertz / Rinehart - Verdi's Guitar - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mertz / Mangold - Works for Guitar [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/27/2005

THE WHIMBRELS are a power art-rock band with lineages to some of the most influential and raw music New York City has produced - loud art with a back beat. The sound is dense, rhythmic, hard and sweet, with hooks and riffs that pop out at unexpected moments. Their three-guitar lineup featuring ARAD EVANS (Glenn Branca Ensemble), NORMAN WESTBERG (Swans) and LUKE SCHWARTZ (Glenn Branca, Wharton Tiers), along with bassist/vocalist MATT HUNTER (Savak, Dusty Fates) and drummer STEVE DiBENEDETTO. The New York Times once placed Arad Evans on Inchan index of creative or experimental electric guitar-based music in America - young lords of the wild in the post-rock tradition.Inch That description fits The Whimbrels perfectly. You may need earplugs.

This album pays homage to the guitar. While the casual listener may recognize many of these works as favorites from the guitar canon, the majority of the repertoire wasn't originally written for the instrument. Only the Sor and the Brouwer were originally guitar compositions. The other works started life in a different form, and stand testament to the strength and versatility of the guitar to not only play such a diverse range of repertoire, but to truly embrace it. With it's polyphonic capabilities and roots in popular music around the world, the guitar is singularly capable of such a traverse of styles. This album is not, as the title may imply, a collection of the most beloved or greatest hits from the classical guitar repertoire, but instead a demonstration of the power and ability of the guitar to perform and assume ownership of such beloved repertoire. New York-based Australian classical guitarist Rupert Boyd has been described by The Washington Post as Inchtruly evocativeInch, by Gramophone as a Inchfine guitaristInch, and by Classical Guitar Magazine as Incha player who deserves to be heardInch. He has performed across four continents, from New York's Carnegie Hall, to festivals in Europe, China, India, Nepal, the Philippines, New Zealand and Australia. Active as both a soloist and chamber musician, Rupert Boyd regularly performs throughout the world in Boyd Meets Girl, with cellist Laura Metcalf, and as part of the Australian Guitar Duo with guitarist Jacob Cordover.