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| Rob Sbar Noesis "Wagon Wheels And Atom Bombs": Independent Review
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Rob Sbar Noesis
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Review of "Wagon Wheels And Atom Bombs"
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By: Wayne Klinger
he power trios continuing in this update and ths particular band is a solo-oriented Jazz/Fusion style with Rob Sbar, a well-educated guitarists in all aspects of learning, teaching, schooling and study. A Bachelor's Degree from Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music and a Graduate Degree in Music Composition from Rutgers, studied with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Charles Wuorinen and privately studied with Scott McGill and Greg Howe. It's hard to describe Rob with all this knowledge he has including scale/chord theory and his continued freelancing of studio and sessioning work. The music is mentioned as Avant-Garde and experimentation with the Rock/Jazz/Fusion format. Lots of fast soloing and somewhat unorthodox in my opiniosince the element of both sounds like 2 CD's played together at the same time. My example is like Metallica, when they came out with "S&M" and everybody acted like it was some sort of new technique in music blending (which it wasn't since alot of people are very close-minded) Heavy Metal with Classical and it just sounded like I took their old "Master of Puppets" CD and put it in one stereo and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" in another stereo and playing both at the same time with me sitting in the middle.
Rob is very talented despite how I interpret the music of the whole band and explodes on this CD and seems he has unrelenting control of his axe. His influences range from Vai, Howe, Holdsworth, Lane ,McLaughlin, Coltrane, Hancock and Corea; just makes this 9-track CD very diverse and it's a more uptempoed Blues/Jazz/Fusion for those listeners that are searching for a more energetic release in this genre.
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