Carl Roa is an enthusiastic and driven musician/guitarist currently based in Long Beach, New York (U.S.A.) who denotes his playing style as instrumental rock, as one might want to hear on his most recent recording, "Heavy Meddle".  His workhorse guitar is a Fender Stratocaster (modified). Roa has been playing guitar since 1980, and truthfully shares his career objective, "To compose, record, and perform my own music."
When the attempt was made to uncover his definitive or preferred effect for the guitar, Roa purposefully responded with, "Delay," and then volunteered his musicial goals, "With my compositions I try to tell a story, each tune should have a unique identity. With instrumental writing the listener is free to conjure up their own meaning to the music, so the song can mean something different to each listener." He keeps open the possibility to, at some point, study engineering and production ("I'd like to get into hard disc recording"), and is at the moment listening to great music from Guitar Nine. His most important gratification? "Playing a gig and having people enjoy the music. It's a great feeling to be able to share the music with people and stir up an emotional response," he muses emphatically.
 Roa winds up by detailing long-term and forthcoming endeavors insightfully, by saying, "I'm in the process of writing music for the next record. We hope to start recording early in the new year."
Guitar Nine Records visitors have compared the playing style and/or musical approach of Carl Roa to guitarists such as Steve Morse, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Alex Lifeson, Eric Johnson and others.
Roa's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes a number of recording projects (Jason Becker Trib. "Warmth In The Wilderness Vol. II", Matt Cafissi "Heat Of Emotion", Crushing Days "A Tribute To Joe Satriani", Guitar 2001 "Lick This", Music Of Hendrix "The Spirit Lives On Vol. 1", Michael Knight "Mechanica Diablo", Magic Elf "Elf Tales", Magic Elf "Live", Magic Elf "Heavy Meddle", Joe Nardulli "Joe Nardulli", Rewired "A Tribute To Jeff Beck").
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