Grammy®Award winning guitarist John Schneider performs Modern Masterworks based on antique models in their Historic Temperaments.

9 Bogdanovic - 3 Renaissance Micropieces | Melancholy Galliard

8 Bogdanovic - 3 Renaissance Micropieces | Fantasia

7 Ponce - Suite In A Minor | Gigue

6 Ponce - Suite In A Minor | Gavotte

5 Ponce - Suite In A Minor | Sarabande

4 Ponce - Suite In A Minor | Allemande

3 Ponce - Suite In A Minor | Prelude

2 Mudarra - Fantasia

1 Ponce - Preludio In E

Using a guitar invented in 2002 by Lou Harrison, the Godfather of World Music, ELLIOT SIMPSON brings us new music written for a ‘folk’ guitar tuned in pure intonation (that’s right, the frets are *not* where you expect them to be). Exquisite harmonies and melodies that you’ve never heard before burst from this special ‘steel guitar’ in music that is at once captivating, tuneful, mournful, exuberant, startling, and downright addictive.

Walter Zimmerman opens the album by weaving a shimmering web of harmonics that welcomes you into this brave new world of pure harmonies. David Doty’s Steel Suite of marvelous dances tips it hat towards the music of several cultures after an evocative Prelude, while Larry Polansky sets infectious traditional folk tunes, bookended by exploratory ‘Toods’ that surf the more dissonant side of this extraordinary instrument. Ezequiel Menalled closes the album with an atmospheric journey through deep inner space, navigating the new universes of sound to be found in the infinitesimally small distances between so-called microtones.

And Elliot Simpson? Here’s what the American Record Guide said of his recording of Henze’s “Royal Winter Music:”
“He is a spectacular player and artist, fully up to the demands of this music. He has an impeccable technique, the intellect to comprehend and convey the works, and enough heart to hear the beauties behind the forbidding exterior…This is some remarkable music making.” – American Record Guide

Wait until you hear him play THIS music….

Doty - Steel Suite | Balkan Dance

GRAMMY® winning & triple nominee producer John Schneider and GRAMMY® nominated pianist Aron Kallay, themselves critically acclaimed performers of ‘microtonal’ music, created MicroFest Records to share their love of exciting repertoire that is simply unavailable anywhere else. Releases include world premiere studio recordings, as well as live performances from two decades of California’s celebrated MicroFest:

“World Class…” – Alan Rich, LA Weekly

“Performers were of a caliber that kept this listener in a state of continual astonishment.” – Mark Swed, LA Times

“After prolonged exposure to the rich, kaleidoscopic world of microtones, returning to equal-tempered music was like going back to black and white after spending a weekend immersed in color…” – Wall Street Journal

Doty - Steel Suite | Balkan Dance

MicroFest Records

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