Loren 'Lo' Woods
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Shattering Conventional Notions Of Guitar Playing
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Guitar For Crazy People is a CD-R of original instrumental guitar tracks from Indiana-based Loren 'Lo' Woods that strives to bring the melody line back to modern music. Disappointed with the latest wave of popular music, Woods has taken a drum machine and his love of blistering lead breaks and meanacing riffs as the impetus to self-release his music via two albums (the first being "It Might Take Years") and to offer his music for free download on the mp3.com web site. Guitar For Crazy People is aural evidence that Woods is one-hundred percent committed to playing what is in head, recording it, and getting it out to the people to discover. Guitar-driven and cinematic, the 13 tracks on his latest CD-R offer plenty of imagination, melody and of course, the occasional hyper-speed moments that display Woods' command of his instrument.
Lo spent most of his teens and 20s playing in rock'n'roll cover bands, unable to convince people to create original music that meant anything. At 28, he realized he had fallen into drug/alcohol addiction, and he retired from the music business to get his life together. Lo gradually overcame his personal difficulties and began rediscovering music, built a home studio, and discovered his own voice on the guitar. He has learned a great deal about the recording and marketing processes and plans to continue to explore new territories in music and hopes to gain new listeners in cyberspace.
Woods' goals and ambitions include helping to reinstall sparkling musicianship and class back into the mainstream, to continue to record music and make it available worldwide, to build a state of the art recording studio and to get signed.
Contact Information
Flash Forward Music
PMB #305
2138 East 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46220
United States
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Chris Hattingh
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Maximum Guitar Synth
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Normally, only guitar-oriented CDs are highlighted in the Undiscovered column, and upon first listen to Chris Hattingh's debut solo CD, Music For A World That's Burned, you would guess it to be a world/new age instrumental release by a keyboard player. Then you hit track 3, "Arena" and hear the Santana-esqe guitar work and furious soloing, and decide to investigate further. Turns out, Hattingh used only three instruments on the record--guitar, guitar synth and drum machine. All of what one would expect was keyboard work (horns, waves, bass, strings) was done so that Hattingh could show what was possible with a guitar synth. He describes the music on Music For A World That's Burned as 'experimental guitar synth instrumentals', so the music varies wildly from keyboard sounding ('Funq II", "I Remember John", "January") to blazing guitar pieces (the metallic "Gassical Class") and some in between (the fusiony "Full Bloom"). When the guitar sound is allowed to come through, Hattingh's picking ability and songwriting chops would satisfy any six-string fanatic.
Chris has studied drums, classical guitar and tympani in South Africa, and studied music at places including the University of Natal and Berklee College of Music. As a testament to his musical versatility, he was voted best drummer at the Los Angeles Hotel "Battle of the Bands" in 1976 and was the 4th place winner in Kahler Tremolo Systems national guitar contest in 1986. Chris has since appeared on recordings by Bob Jones, Dan Radcliff, Corporal Punishment, Larry Mitchell, The Rayons, Ruscha, Killer Dudes, Grease Dragons and his own solo CD release.
Hattingh's goal is to release music into the world which emphasizes beauty and harmony (and skill) in order to assist in setting a new standard for popular music.
Contact Information
Chris Hattingh
TGIF Studios
4668 N. Friday Circle
Cocoa, FL 32926
United States
Web site:
www.tgif-studios.com
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