Michael Abdow
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Yes, But Can He Play Fast?
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Here's one thing you won't be saying to yourself after listening to the three tracks on Michael Abdow's demo CD-R. OK, are you ready? You won't be saying, "Gee, it's good, but I wish he would just play faster!" You won't be saying that. Abdow has got the speed thing locked in. Even neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess, who knows a thing or three about speedy playing, remarked, "Dig your stuff man, you're a killer player!" The three demo songs are from Abdow's forthcoming instrumental album, coming out in 2007, and aside from a keyboard solo on "Savage Garden", it's all Abdow. This is one prodigious player, he can also play slow (some speed demons can't, believe it or not), and fans of heavy shred and metal now have a new name to watch out for. Check out the debut release when it becomes available.
Hailing from western Massachusetts, Michael began playing guitar in 1997. Throughout high school, he studied fingerstyle guitar and played in an amateur progressive metal band. In 2002, he began studying jazz guitar and general composition under Bob Ferrier at Holyoke Community College, where he earned an Associatešs Degree in music. At about this time, he also began studying with virtuoso Tom Kopyto with whom he taught at a local music store. The fall of 2004 saw Michael join the western Massachusetts metal band Tempus Mori. Based in Springfield, MA, Tempus Mori has completed two EPs and plays throughout New England. His instrumental music is melodic metal with shredding leads and seven-string riffage. Drawing on all his influences, it is heavily focused on groove and phrasing. Influences include Michael Romeo, Tony MacAlpine, Rob Johnson, Vinnie Moore, Tom Kopyto and Frank Gambale.
Abdow is currently writing and recording music for Tempus Mori and his instrumental project as well as teaching guitar in the greater Springfield area.
MP3 Songs
Savage Garden
Truth And Consequence
Contact Information
Michael Abdow
114 Elizabeth Drive
Ludlow, MA 01056
United States
E-mail:
Michael Abdow
Web site:
www.michaelabdow.com
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Eric Carbonara
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Vibrates Molecules To Kill Fascists
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Seven Pieces For Solo Guitar is the title of the latest CD-R from Pennsylvania area guitarist Eric Carbonara, and thanks to truth in advertising statutes, you'll find here one solo guitar and seven challenging acoustic pieces. Highly improvisational, and wholly introspective, you may feel as if you are listening to a sage pouring out his collected wisdom onto a group of eager followers, or perhaps you may hear a battle-weary soldier recalling his long-lost innocence. Easily a dozen or more interpretations per tune can be readily imagined; indeed the beauty of instrumental music is the ability to let free association be your guide while listening - although the composer's intent beyond the song title might be an interesting addition to a future album's liner notes. Great job.
Eric is a guitarist, composer, audio engineer and producer whose career spans over a decade of collaborations and solo work. Frequently using a rotating cast of monikers and aliases, he simply uses sound to interpret the world around him as he sees fit. His own recording studio, Nada Sound Studio, is both the catalyst and the mechanism through which Eric speaks. Recent years have revealed a departure from his psych/krautrock-influenced work to a kaleidoscopic realm of minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation, free-noise guitar thrashing, the folk music of North Africa and Andalusia and Classical Hindustani music. In a sense, Eric plays pidgin music, a language that is in between other languages - borrowing elements from its surroundings. Maybe a language that only Eric speaks, but he speaks it well.
In 2004, Carbonara released a limited-edition album of signal delay compositions titled "Selections From The Void..." Since then, Carbonara's work has been seen on two Philadelphia based compilations: Rich Wexler's "Up the Stairs, Down the Hall", and on Honeymoon Music's self-titled compilation, which he debuted an excerpt from the sprawling "Music for Wine Glasses".
MP3 Songs
Caravan Of The New Thorn
Dead Trees In The Life Of Speed
Contact Information
Eric Carbonara
6937 Guilford Rd.
Upper Darby, PA 19082
United States
E-mail:
Eric Carbonara
Web site:
www.ericcarbonara.org
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