Thursday, November 20, 2008

Jump for Jazz(ish)


The world fusion music movement has spawned many intriguing new musical hybrids. Mariah Parker's SANGRIA blends the driving rhythmic syncopations of Latin jazz with the entrancing, asymmetrical meters of East India.
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Friday, November 14, 2008

Scalloped fretboard guitar anyone?

Matthew Montford has made a name for himself on an instrument that would make most people hungry. Improv meets passion in his latest release, SEVEN SERENADES FOR SCALLOPED FRETBOARD GUITAR



“The sparkling presence and sustain you hear is not an amplified acoustic with a lot of reverb, but a scalloped fretboard guitar. Matt’s the only person I know who can play one. Most rock musicians I’ve mentioned it to seem shocked that it even exists.’” – Jello Biafra, (seminal punk rock singer, Dead Kennedy front man turned spoken word activist, politician, mail recycler) ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES RECORDS