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Vibrant and Powerful Acoustic Music
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Keith Rosenhagen is a rare breed. Equally adept at singing and at playing his acoustic guitar, Rosenhagen has applied his abilities towards recording his first CD, The Other Side. The first song "North Carolina," features a memorable hook over a highly enjoyable arrangement. Rosenhagen attacks an emotional subject on "Here With Me", as the song blends beautiful acoustic and electric guitar work and strong lyrics with a thematic piano solo. The Other Side was produced by childhood friend and guitarist Dave Beegle, currently with Fourth Estate.
throughout the west including Arizona and California as a rock vocalist and solo acoustic artist. He has performed in the Northern Colorado Music Fest for the last four years and been a featured performer on local radio stations. Since in Colorado, he has performed extensively as a solo artist, in the acoustic duo, The Guitar Rangers, and with the classic rock band, The Jurassicasters. Six months of effort went into the recording of The Other Side, after his wife Lisa and Beegle persuaded him to permanently document his creative work.
Rosenhagen is currently playing live to support his new record and collaborating with a group of Denver investors on a series of videos and books, developing a guitar learning system for beginning and advanced players. We can only hope Beegle plans another round of persuasion for the accomplished guitarist.
Contact Information
Hapi-Skratch Records
2100 W. Drake Rd., Suite 280
Fort Collins, CO 80526
United States
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Energetic, Unpredictable Fingerstyle Guitar
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New Hampshire-based acoustic guitarist Nick Thompson has recently released his second CD of original fingerstyle guitar music, entitled Sometimes Splatter Paints. The record consists of nine original compositions and an otherworldly cover version of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby". Thompson uses nothing more than an Alvarez 6-string and a Taylor 12-string to record his music, yet the guitar at times has a steel guitar or banjo quality to the sound, due to the nature of Thompson's strumming style. Sometimes Splatter Paints' songs cover a lot of musical ground--from the chillingly beautiful fretwork on "Enola" to the unorthodox tapping used to extract the melody on the opening track "Ylime."
Thompson had a quite a different style in mind when he began playing guitar. His hero was Slash and he played in a Guns N' Roses cover band. It wasn't until Nick heard fingerstyle guitar for the first time that he realized he had found his passion and began to practice seriously. He then released his first CD, "Red Weather." Later, Thompson ran into an friend that was able to obtain free studio time at the Dust Brothers studio in Los Angeles to record what was to become Sometimes Splatter Paints.
Thompson's goal is to integrate his fingerpicking style with both the drive of the rock music from his youth and the intensity of the late John Coltrane, whose music Nick now listens to.
Contact Information
Nick Thompson
Box 758
Goffstown, NH 03045
Untied States
Web site:
www.nickthompson.com
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