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Vol. 14, No. 4: Jun.-Jul. 2009
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Electric Recommendations
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Guitar Nine Records
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Michael Fath
All Of Me
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Virginia area guitarist Michael Fath steps out with an all-instrumental, solo jazz guitar album entitled All Of Me. Fath, noted for his abilities in an incredible variety of styles (rock, neo-classical, shred, fusion, country, classical, metal) has never before released a pure jazz CD - so this is Fath coming right into your living room for a personal, 54 minute set of covers and three original numbers ("Susan's Rain Song", "Candelora Swing" and "The 6th Sense"). You'll hear Fath's arrangements of tunes by composers such as Miles Davis ("So What"), John Coltrane ("Naima"), Thelonius Monk ("Blue Monk"), Cole Porter ("Night And Day"), Duke Ellington ("Take The A Train"), Johnny Mercer ("Autumn Leaves") and more. If you can't get up to Virginia/Maryland to see Fath perform these amazing tunes live, be assured - this intimate recording is the next best thing. Instrumental Guitar, total running time, 54:31
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In Review
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'Solar Flare'
Review Featured In ProGGnosis, July, 2005
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By: MJ Brady
s my first experiences hearing the music of guitarist/composer Phi Yaan-Zek, I
really wasn`t sure what to expect, there really were very few guests that I was
familiar with one being keyboardist extraordinaire - Lale Larson, who I became
familiar with through his work with Electrocution 250 - Electronic Cartoon Music
from Hell easily one of the most technically insane, shred releases I have ever
heard. I also have Larson`s Ominox cd, which is some inventive fusion in the
tradition of the best Tribal Tech material. Needless to say, Lale`s involvement with
Yaan-Zek made this cd a winner from the start, also drumming sensation - Marco
Minnemann is on this, so already, I am liking this cd without even knowing anything
about the bandleader.
There are a host of other musicians involved on Solar Flare, most of whom I am just
being exposed to for the first time as I get aquainted with the music, each of these
guests offer the perfect complimentary performances to Yaan-Zeks` ecclectic flavor
of many musical formats, and never once do I get the impression that I am listening
to a guitarists` cd, due to the overall band feel of the compostions. Yaan-Zek
creates music that fits somewhere between the complexity of some of Frank Zappa`s
most band oriented music, and goes to other extreme, by infusing many ethnicnally
diverse flavors, never one dimensionally, but pairing them together for some very
unique sounds. It`s as if he has found a way to take the very essence of bands like
Zappa, Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck/ Jan Hammer, Shakti, Eleventh
House and much more and made a single mixture of all of them.
There is never a dull moment on this cd, in fact, the way each song seems to offer
such a unique brand of fusion, you find yourself dissecting the sounds of
instruments to hear who is doing what on their respective instruments. As stated,
solid players all over this cd, making standout statements on every song. Getting to
Yaan-Zeks guitar stylings, who just happens to be the so called featured artist
here, well he plays as a chameleon through this menagerie of exotic music, his voice
on the instrument is reminiscent of the best fusion players of days gone by, you
will definitely hear echoes of John McLaughlin, Jeff Beck, Larry Coryell, Tim
Crowther, Frank Zappa, and just a hint of Di Meola, he seems to have wrapped all
these players around both his playing and composing.
Needless to say, I am fully impressed by this cd, and feel the need to hear more of
his work, the most impressive aspect is that Yaan-Zek yields to his bandmates as
equal voices to his musical vision, the songs are compositions, not jam sessions,
yet the songs allow enough space to allow for showcasing the musicians` talents. So
in a nutshell, that is what has made the most respected fusion efforts in history
what they are, great writing, great playing equals great music.
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