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Ballurio is a sparkling, vital guitarist from Manassas, Virginia (U.S.A.) who describes his style as instrumental rock, as documented on his latest release, "Spider Dance".  His guitars of choice include a Stenberger GM4T - "Coffee" and a Washburn EC36 - "Ruby". Ballurio has played guitar since 1970, and frankly affirms his career goal, "To continue writing, playing and growing musically."
When requested to name his preferred effect for the guitar, Ballurio responded with, "Distortion - properly done," and submitted his musicial goals, "Strive to increase the subtleties and richness of my music ensuring that my music continues to expand and change. Release a new album every two years." He would like to someday study with Joe Satriani, and is currently listening to everything, predominately guitarists. His greatest satisfaction? "The process of blending instrumental orchestrations and hearing musical ideas evolve into a completed musical composition, something that is musically exciting and never been done before. I truly enjoy the process of creating new music through the blending of different instruments into a composition with rich overtones and complexities," he answers indisputably.
Ballurio notes ongoing and upcoming projects thusly, "What I'm currently working on is a new project that's a combination of rock blended with techno and industrial. The music for the current project has been written and the studio process is just getting started... this is the part I really dig! The project will blend rock, interlaced with complex and rich guitar orchestrations, with tastefully used synthesizers and heavy percussion and bass. This is quite a departure from my last project, "Spider Dance", which was written with the mind set of hard and raw orchestrated guitar, bass and drums... fundamental!"
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Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
