Doug Young
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Genre-Bending Acoustic Fingerstyle
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Recorded at home in his garage where his son's punk rock band practices, Laurel Mill is fingerstylist Doug Young's debut instrumental CD, featuring mainly original pieces, along with excellent covers of tracks by Stevie Nicks ("Rhiannon"), Chris Wilhelm ("Gretchen"), and the Beatles ("I Will"). A traditional tune, "Shennandoah" is also included, which was originally arranged as part of a project with a Usenet group of acoustic guitar players. This is an enjoyable CD, especially for a first effort, with a variety of open and alternate tunings used to great effect. The recording is intimate - you'll feel as if you're enjoying a private performance with just you, Young, and his Wingert and Ryan guitars. The opening track "No Two Ways About It" is a nice introduction to Young's compositional and playing style, and if that hooks ya, stick around, kick back, and enjoy the remaining fifteen instrumentals.
Doug grew up in Northeast Ohio and started playing guitar as a teenager. Although he focused on electric guitar and played in rock bands for many years, he was also drawn to the acoustic fingerstyle guitar of players like John Renbourn, Paul Simon, and James Taylor, as well as jazz players such as Pat Martino and Joe Pass. Doug now calls the San Francisco Bay area home, and has been focusing exclusively on acoustic guitar, drawing on Celtic and folk elements in addition to his rock and jazz background. His recent influences include guitarists Laurence Juber, Martin Simpson and Pat Kirtley.
Young continues to play live when possible, and is looking for ways to find a larger audience for his music.
Contact Information
Doug Young
987 Solana Ct.
Mountain View, CA 94040
United States
E-mail:
Doug Young
Web site:
www.dougyoungguitar.com
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Cosimo Erario
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Fusion Guitar Meets Ethno, Funk & Hip-Hop Grooves
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World is the name of the new fusion guitar CD from Germany-based guitarist Cosimo Erario, which vibrates with Mediterranean sounds and solar harmonies over ethno, funk and hip-hop grooves. Entirely instrumental (except for the pointless rap in "Hale Bopp"), Erario has teamed with 6-string bassist Andre Cayres and electric pianist Wolfram Schmitz, who help humanize the sequenced rhythms. The ballad "Vento Africano" features some of Erario's smoothest playing and one of his favorite guitar solos. The funked up "Hale Bopp" offers some blazing, wah-wah soaked leads that show off Erario's guitar skills over an energetic track. This CD has a first for us here, a one minute track ("...Di Questi Anni...", the seventh track) of complete and total silence. The verdict... kind of a downer. Overall, an ambitious, contemporary sounding effort for Erario, who has plans to do a number of guitar project, each quite different in style from the others.
Cosimo, born in Italy in 1968, started playing guitar when he was 8 years old. His father was his first teacher, and his first guitar book was a jazz method from the '60s. Cosimo then gigged with several rock and fusion bands while taking private jazz guitar lessons. He has attended guitar seminars by Mike Stern, Joe Diorio and Pat Metheny, and workshops with Michael Landau, Frank Gambale, Andy Timmons and many others. Cosimo currently teaches guitar in Germany, owns his own recording studio, and has performed many studio assignments on the guitar. He is also working on his first book for the guitar, which may be ready in the fall of 2003.
Erario's next project is an acoustic CD with guitar and voice in the Neil Young style, except with crazy acoustic guitar. He has also produced a pop CD in which he sings three songs in Italian, and two lounge music recordings, which he hopes to either have a label release, or will release himself.
Contact Information
EGPmusicproductions
Cosimo Erario
Romerstr. 42
41569 Rommerskirchen
Germany
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Cosimo Erario
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