Air Patterns

In Air Patterns, guitarist David Pritchard creates a mosaic of musical landscapes accomplished through the intricate layering of acoustic guitar tracks. Serving as interludes between these textured pieces for multiple guitars are orignal solo compositions for classical guitar. David Pritchard began his career as a jazz guitarist with the Gary Burton Quartet; he also co-founded the pioneer fusion group "Contraband" which recorded for Epic Records. Air Patterns opens with "Inward Bound," a piece characterized by the ethereal sounds of exotically tuned acoustic guitars darting in and out of delicate rhythmic patterns. Other tracks include "Mercury Delayed," which subtly evokes country roots and melody and "Each to His Own" which features two acoustic guitars 'dueling' vibrantly in different meters. With this CD, Pritchard has moved his musical course out of the jazz realm and into a new acoustic musical environemnt of shifting harmonic landscapes propelled by a subtle rhythmic pulse, punctuated by haunting metric and melodic patterns.