Marcel Anton
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Defying Categorization With Latest CD
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Party at Anton's! Guitarist, singer and songwriter Marcel Anton's new CD Tantra Carnival rocks the house with a genre-defying blend of funk, rock, Caribbean with crunching guitar soloing -- New Orleans by way of Key West, New York and Portland. Anton, whose vocal style has been likened to David Bowie, writes with the idea of exploring the depths of human experience and celebrating living and loving. He is an accomplished guitarist, favoring clean, funkified rhythms and energetic, overdriven leads. Highlights on the disc include the dark "I Am You", with it's heavy, vibrato-laden solo, and "Make Me The One", an uptempo, almost surf-sounding number with another great solo. Beautiful ballads compliment the raw edge material, but overall, Tantra Carnival has a little bit of just about everything!
Marcel has a Master's in Music and three degrees from the Grove School of Music. He recently had three songs placed in a film by Hefner Productions' "Glass Cage". Marcel's credit include work with a wide range of artists such as the Skeletones, members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Linda Hopkins, Third World, Public Image, Shakeh, Collen Clark, Gallivan Burwell, Floyd Dixon, Albert Collins, Stuart Copeland, Dennis Walker, The Van Nuys Symphony Orchestra, and many others.
Live, Anton has been known to take advantage of his background in acting and dancing to ensure a top-notch entertainment experience. He plays the parts of guitar, horns and keyboards alternately and all at once, sometimes from the floor, on his back, or even with his teeth.
Contact Information
Doug Deutsch Publicity Services
1443 Seward St.
Hollywood, CA 90028
United States
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Marcel Anton
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Andre LaFosse
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Modern Guitar Flavors Jungle Rhythms
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Straddling genres including jungle, experimental, rock and progressive, California guitarist Andre LaFosse has released Disruption Theory, which features six tracks of predominantly long-form compositions and improvisations. Selections such as "In Time" and "Signify" involve principles of classical right-hand guitar technique translated to an electric guitar, to produce contrapuntal lines and muting that let the instrument speak in a very precise and cleanly articulated manner. Disruption Theory's title track offers improvised 16th-notes over a modulating 8-bar progression at 180 BPM, as well as a "looping solo" recorded live in one pass with an Oberheim Echoplex. LaFosse pushes the envelope on his debut CD, drawing on many styles to deliver a signature sound.
Andre's interest in the guitar came about as a result of his experiments with 4-track recording and sequencing in his early teens. Guitar quickly became his primary focus, and he enrolled in the Multi-Focus Guitar program at CalArts in 1994, with six years of playing under his belt. In addition to the guitaristic elements in the curriculum, Andre studied styles and genres such as North Indian/Hindustani, European Classical, various strains of jazz, Javanese gamelan and electronic music. He graduated from CalArts in 1997 with a BFA in guitar performance.
LaFosse's goals are to establish himself in a number of musical areas. His role models include Brian Eno, Bill Laswell and Daniel Lanois -- people who do work in a wide range of roles relating to the recording and performance of music that draws on many different styles. His short term objectives include establishing a clientele of music students and producing other artists.
Contact Information
Altruist Music
4570 Van Nuys Blvd. #384
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
United States
E-mail:
Andre LaFosse
Web site:
www.altruistmusic.com
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