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Displaying Jacked-Up Intensity
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Take a skater/skier/diver with a fondness for high-energy, extreme sports-style music and put him into a studio with a guitar and you might get a CD similar to Leashed Chaos. New York's George Kovac serves up nine instrumental tracks which alternate between a display of jacked-up intensity ("Spider Bite", "Funky Fingers") and moments of dense, gut-wrenching, fluid guitar work ("Midnight Breeze", "Delicate Savage"). Featuring Kovac's crunchy six-string work, he handles all the remaining instrumentation himself - a a self-described "single man path". Fans of shred and hard rock guitar playing will warm up to Leashed Chaos immediately. The 1998 release is Kovac's third, following 1996's "The Rock" and 1997's "The Mellow".
George started playing at the age of 6, started his first band at 13, and was playing in numerous punk-rock and pop bands at 16. In his twenties, he joined jazz/funky bands to get more into the music. George later founded a small company to build guitar pedals and amps. He moved to the United States a few years ago and eventually established his own production studio, which occupies a great deal of his time. George also builds his own amps and creates his own MIDI editors.
Kovac is currently working on his fourth piece of music - a dynamic funky/jazz/guitar-gizmo-chaos-thing. Stay tuned.
Contact Information
Gsoft Mmedia
PO Box 2038
New York, NY 10021
United States
E-mail:
George Kovac
Web site:
www.georgekovac.com
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Visually Evokative Instrumental Music
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Remote Control is Los Angeles guitarist, composer, arranger and producer Pat Thomi's third CD, featuring a collection of electric progressive fusion and rock numbers. All instrumental (save for the opening tune, a pop/rock vocal number and some talkbox work on "The Bitch"), Thomi allows himself the freedom to rip, making the album the answer to a guitar lover's prayer. His talent as a composer sets the CD apart, and his skills on the six-string add the requisite aggression, power and edge. Cuts such as the original title track and the Jaco Pastorius cover "Havona (Revisited)" literally leap from the speakers, the latter featuring a number of exciting solo passages and improvisations. Remember the name Thomi - his visually evokative instrumental works are worth a close listen.
Born and raised in Basel, Switzerland, Pat received from his father (a classical and jazz piano player) a love of the great master composers such as Mozart, Wagner and Debussy. Starting with the drums, he gravitated towards piano and guitar and later studied at the Basel Conservatory of Music. Desiring to play live, Pat formed the group Ramayana, which played the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Zurich Jazz Festival. He later attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston, studying film music. Pat has also studied with Pat Martino and Joe Diorio. He has played live and in the studio with artists such as Gino Vannelli, Jean Luc Ponty, Gary Wright and Wendy and Lisa.
Thomi's discography includes 1994's "Night Of The Coral", a pop/jazz instrumental album, and the follow-up CD, "Fairytales", an atmospheric, acoustic compilation. He is currently working on another ambient album.
Contact Information
Blueblimp Productions
Pat Thomi
West Los Angeles, CA
United States
E-mail:
Pat Thomi
Web site:
www.patthomi.com
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Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
