Visual Guitar Mastery

Mastering the Fretboard with Innovative Visual Tools and Daily Practice

Mastering the Fretboard with Innovative Visual Tools and Daily Practice

This project from Göran Söllscher is a follow-up to his previous CD, the highly successful 'Eleven-String Baroque'. With the balanced sound of Söllscher's eleven-string guitar combined with the Baroque repertoire, the album spoke to not only his fans but also a wider audience craving relaxing music and congenial guitar sounds. In this same spirit, Söllscher's upcoming Renaissance album can be marketed to a wide audience including both his fans and new listeners in search of dreamy, soothing Renaissance melodies. The stylish cover artwork emphasizes both the freshness and universality of Söllscher's art. The album contains Renaissance lute masterpieces by various composers from Italy, Spain, Germany, France and England, the most popular of which were written by John Dowland. Söllscher delivers a dozen of tracks by Dowland, a composer who embodies the 'golden age' of English lute music.

Part 2 out of the 2-part Course

Lloyd's trademark fusion of garage rock crunch, irresistible power pop hooks and metaphysical soul is apparent from the opening riff of the album's inaugural rocker "Wind in the Rain." - In his recent memoir, Everything is Combustible: Television, CBGB’s and Five Decades of Rock and Roll, guitarist-singersongwriter Richard Lloyd recalls his thoughts the first time he saw Tom Verlaine play in a New York nightclub. “This guy has something special but he is missing something,” Lloyd writes.

Lloyd's trademark fusion of garage rock crunch, irresistible power pop hooks and metaphysical soul is apparent from the opening riff of the albums inaugural rocker. The "rawk" returns with force as Lloyd cranks it up for guitar rockers, demonstrating the excitement, groove and power of Lloyd's guitar mastery. Lloyd slows things down a bit for a trio of touching, tender rock ballads before returning to raucous rock'n'roll and a comic guitar journey to end the album. Two of Lloyd's paintings were used as the visual foundation for the front and back covers of the packaging.

Poof is composer, saxophonist and flutist and newly-minted NEA Jazz Master Henry Threadgill’s latest work with his band, Zooid, his primary musical laboratory for the last two decades. Their last release together, In for a Penny, In for a Pound, was the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music, whose committee called it “a highly original work in which notated music and improvisation mesh in a sonic tapestry that seems the very expression of modern American life.”