Patrick Ginnaty
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A New Age Rock 'N' Roll Wandering Minstrel
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Guitarist Patrick Ginnaty from Maine offers up the 1995 project To Sail Beyond The Sunset, an eight-song CD featuring instrumental rock music composed between 1987 and 1995. Much of the music on the CD has a jammy feel to it--almost a first-take-live-in-the-studio approach, yet each piece revolves around a simple melodic theme. Influenced by the emotion and idealism of music from the 1960s, Ginnaty stresses memorabilty and feeling on To Sail Beyond The Sunset, relying on a stripped-down production to carry his message. The compositions on the record are equally divided between hard rockers and slower, moody pieces with longer improvisational sections.
Ginnaty was born on Halloween in Stillwater, Minnesota. Coming from artistic parents created a natural expectation that Patrick would also become an artist. As a teenager, Ginnaty heard the music of Eric Clapton on the radio, and the guitarist's lilting tones prompted him to buy his first guitar (an Epiphone) and start learning to play. Ginnaty spent parts of the next 25 years creating a series of tapes with original instrumental music for friends. In 1995, he booked himself into a studio and recorded the bulk of his first CD, To Sail Beyond The Sunset.
Ginnaty is currently working on material for his next release. This wandering minstrel, a pied piper of the electric guitar, is poised to begin his next musical breakthrough on his journey through life.
Contact Information
Beyond The Sunset Music
P.O. Box 219
Damariscotta, ME 04543
United States
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Edward DeGenaro
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Instrumental Guitarist Stresses Music Over Flash
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Edward DeGenaro is a fusion guitarist from Seattle who describes his music as 'bebop metal guitar.' The eleven tracks on his demo CD-R reflect a strong electric fusion influence, highlighted by the soaring, overdriven guitar sound DeGenaro uses to provide the 'metal' in the music. DeGenaro is a highly skilled, technical guitar player in the vein of Scott Henderson and Frank Gambale, drenching his tracks with impressively fluid guitar solos ("The House..." and "So What", among others). He has started his own band and production company, Nude Guitars--nude referring not to flesh, but symbolizing a stripped down approach to fusing bebop with metal.
Edward was born and raised in Germany. At age 6 he began studying cello, and at age 12 moved to the guitar when he saw Ritchie Blackmore on a television program. Edward attended the German National Conservatory of Music in Nuernberg. After graduating with a degree in Performance and Teaching, he toured
Europe working as a "hired gun" guitarist and session player developing his unique talent for fusing multiple musical styles into the "Nude Guitars" sound. Edward's influences are many and include greats such as Jeff Beck, Larry Carlton, Jaco Pastorius and Mike Stern.
In the future, DeGenaro has set a goal for himself to release a guitar-oriented CD that also spotlights all the other instruments, mixing hot guitar with a kickin' rhythm section. He hopes to entertain and inspire other guitarists and musicians to do their own thing as well.
Contact Information
Edward DeGenaro
5333 21st Ave. SW
Seattle, WA 98106
Untied States
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