• Red Guitar

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  "Red Guitar consists of a series of seven compositions for fingerpicked electric guitar, all recorded with the same (red) guitar and amp at my home in Austin, Texas, during the fall of 2016. The pieces are all played in 5-string open G tuning (GDGBD). The creative process for the album started when I was invited to play at a friend’s birthday party and I realized that the piece I was planning to play (“Pink Lights” on this album) did not require the low D string, so I removed it. I realized that the piece sounded better without the extra resonances from the low D and was easier to play, and was inspired to compose and record a series of pieces in the same tuning. Red Guitar is the result. The album reflects my long-standing love of the pure, clean sound of unaffected electric guitar and combines sustained, meditative attention with a somewhat mercurial or intuitive approach to composition stemming from many years spent recording skeletal sketch recordings for rock band compositions. The music maps, in a highly personalized and distilled way, some of the vocabulary of acoustic folk and blues guitar playing onto the more stark and plain sound of a clean electric guitar, and leans toward a quiet self-expression that respects and honors the listener and the space created by the act of listening.”
  
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