Schmange
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Techno-Rock Guitar
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OK, do you like techno and rock guitar fused together? If not, move on to the next review. If you do, or you're not sure because you've never heard any thing like it, then you need to check out Schmange on his CD-R release PhaseIV Chronicles. Generally using hard-edged techno as a base, Schmange layers his guitar sounds (rooted in '70s and '80s rock) over the top, achieving a kind of dramatic, David Gilmour feel. In fact, if you like say, Tangerine Dream, modern sounds and Gilmour's work, you'd feel right at home. Tracks such as "MoogBoog" are more hard rock than techno, allowing for more of a guitar hero approach - thus sucking in even more guitar fans. Got to hand it to Schmange, he's doing a good job trying to appeal to a wider base here with his compositions. An 'A' for creativity as well.
Schmange's musical career began as a guitar player, touring Canada performing with the groundbreaking band Essex. For the last five years, his studio tricks and techniques have been published on the GuitarTricks.com website. He currently has more than 300 advanced lessons, over half a million hits and a growing fan-base of over 100,000 signed members. Schmange's equipment list reads like the advertiser index in the back of Keyboard Magazine - he's got quite a few goodies at his disposal. Check out the Schmange web site for a complete list.
Schmange is planning a worldwide press mailing of 1000 CDs for PhaseIV Chronicles, targeting Alternative Press, Magnet, Spin.com, Rollingstone.com, Billboard, fanzines and more.
Contact Information
Schmange Music
36 Holland River Blvd.
Holland Landing, Ontario L9N 1C5
Canada
E-mail:
Schmange
Web site:
www.schmange.com
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Grant Geissman Quintet
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Audiophile Jazz Fusion CD/DVD
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Guitarist Grant Geissman assembled an all-star band for his quintet featured on his audiophile jazz CD/DVD, entitled There And Back Again. Gregg Bissonette (drums), Jim Cox (piano), Gordon Goodwin (sax) and Jimmy Johnson (electric bass) contribute their talents to the project, which comes on a double-sided disc (side one featuring DVD-Audio and side two featuring DVD-Video. The fusion here is punchy and red hot, and on the DVD side, you'll feel as if you're taking a private lesson with Geissman, with a great view on how he achieves all of his fancy fretwork. A great use of angles and split screen let you see how the other musicians on this live-in-the-studio concert are faring. Highly recommended for players and non-players alike.
Guitarist/composer Grant Geissman is a much in-demand studio musician who has recorded with such artists as Quincy Jones, David Benoit, Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello and Chuck Mangione, among others. He has also played on the scores for such TV shows as Monk, Dawson's Creek, and Touched By An Angel, as well as on movies like The Cable Guy, My Dog Skip, Tomb Raider II, Private Parts, Star Trek: Resurrection, The Majestic and Anaconda. Grant has also been busy working with eclectic musician/composer Van Dyke Parks on Parks' solo projects, and on music for the HBO children's program Harold and the Purple Crayon, for which Geissman and Parks were nominated for an Annie Award. He is also a popular Contemporary Jazz recording artist in his own right, with eleven highly regarded albums as a solo artist.
Geissman is currently writing music for his next CD release where he continues the trip back to his mainstream jazz and blues roots.
Contact Information
Michael Bloom Media Relations
P.O. Box 41380
Los Angeles, CA 90041-0380
United States
E-mail:
Grant Geissman Quintet
Web site:
www.grantgeissman.com
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