Meditative yet funky fingerstyle acoustic guitar music with a Global spin, often described as "Music that makes you think", "Thoughtful and engaging guitar."

10 MP3 Songs
WORLD: Mediterranean, NEW AGE: New Age

Show all album songs: Night Vision Songs


Details:
-from the liner notes of "Night Vision":

"Night Vision" is about the special dynamic that exists between mind and music, for the composer, the performer and the audience. All good art has an elemental magic that expresses the spectrum of human emotion and makes it a vehicle for sharing our personal views on the experience of life itself. The painter uses brush strokes, the sculptor chooses clay and stone, the musician plays with sound. Music can speak so much louder than words."

-personal notes on "Night Vision":

I used a few different guitar tunings used on this CD, including 'standard tuning', some not so drastic and some are quite far from 'standard', none just for the sake of using weird altered tunings, but when you have such a different set of parameters on the same instrument, suddenly your creativity gets kicked into high gear, chords and melodies occur to you that would otherwise be 'impossible'.

Playing music for me is very much like meditation, whether it's in the composition or recording or performing of it. The musician makes a connection to the listener with sound; that sound can mean many different things to many different people but the intent of the musician and the message of the song, even if it doesn't have words, is still there on a very subtle but very certain level.
People have told me this music evokes a lot of imagery for them, I don't think that's weird at all,I take that as a really great compliment!
I am very drawn to the music of our 'global village' and I have made use of those instruments and sounds that I find particularly engaging; African and Native American drums and percussion,Tibetan bells and singing bowls, Arabic scales, Latin rhythms,and some of my favourite digital toys, the Roland Handsonic and the Roland GR guitar synth. which is played via an Ovation acoustic guitar.