'Easy' guitar solo

I recently did some recordings for John Gillards fantastic forthcoming album 'See the light of day'. It's always a real treat to be able to work with John's multi-talented son Robin who took the producer's seat. Big thanks to both of them for graciously allowing me to record what I thought would fit the songs best, and even bigger thanks for letting most of these weird little tracks make it to the final mix. 

Anyway, for those who are interested in 6-string affairs, here's a quick little medley of some, erm... more guitar-oriented parts I had the pleasure of blemishing with my strange noises. We tried to cover a lot of ground: Slide solos, heavily processed sounds, ELO-esque double slide motives, some E-bow-extravaganza, lots of Dobros, serious rock-riffs, juicy blues solos, Nashville flavours.... the list goes on.

And for all you normal people (lucky you): The CD will be available soon, don't miss out on it! Great songwriting, fabulous musicians, and almost no guitar solos at all!!!
Plus there's a good chance it's the first album in your collection dealing with subjects as diverse as sharkfin soups and gay flamingos! :-)

All the best, Alex

some guitar tracks I recorded for John Gillard's upcoming album

Sparkledrive Live-Medley vom Wackelstein-Festival

Cosmophonics Demos

The Cosmophonics: Living It Up

Outtake from the new Harlequin's Glance-CD 'Ashore', released Nov. 2012

Harlequin's Glance: Them Nights

Harlequin's Glance - Marlise.mp3

Cosmophonics Medley.mp3

This Is My Life.mp3

Sparkledrive: Moonshiner (Trad.)

Sparkledrive: Oklahoma Borderline (Vince Gill)

Die Songs von Sparkledrive nehmen ihre Hörer mit auf die Reise ins Big Sky Country, in die Bars von Nashville, zu den Sunday Morning Sidewalks, nach Memphis, in die Hügel Kentuckies, zu den Sümpfen Louisianas, zu den Kornfeldern des Mittelwestens, in die Kirchen Alabamas und bis runter an die mexikanische Grenze.  
Auf der Setlist des Trios stehen Lieder aus eigener Feder, Songs von Hank Williams, Johnny Cash oder Merle Haggard, traditioneller Folk und Bluegrass, Western Swing, Honky Tonk, Rockabilly, Tex-Mex, R&B, Gospel, Southern Rock und auch Americana-Songs jüngeren Datums.
Speziell daran ist, dass neben einer großen Zahl an akustischen und elektrischen Saiteninstrumenten viele ungewöhnliche Klangwerkzeuge wie Squareneck-Dobros, Lap-Steel- und Baritone-Gitarren, Banjos, Mandolinen, Weissenborns und vieles mehr zum Einsatz kommen. 
Die Musiker, allesamt erfolgreich in namhaften Bands (The Prophets, Alex Miksch Trio, Harlequin's Glance...), liefern nicht nur  eindrucksvolle Zeugnisse ihrer Handwerkskunst ab, sie gehen vor allem auf die gemeinsame Suche nach dem Klang der grenzenlosen Weite Amerikas.

Alex Gantz

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