Sonny Landreth

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Sonny Landreth is known for originality on the guitar with his detailed techniques and expressions using the slide bar, along with his dynamic and powerful performance on the instrument. Added to his trademark slide guitar techniques, Sonny also shows a great talent as a singer and songwriter, allowing him to continuously deliver quality music over the years. His new album “Bound By The Blues” is a tribute to his blues heroes, featuring a brilliant mix of blues covers and new originals. Sonny talks to MUSE ON MUSE about his new album.

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Sam Coulson

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Sam Coulson succeeded in filling in the shoes of progressive rock guitar maestro Steve Howe, as the new guitar player for ASIA. On their latest album “Gravitas” Sam delivers skillful guitar performances, bringing the songs to another level. Sam took some time to talk to MUSE ON MUSE about his musical background, as well as about his guitar playing on the new ASIA album.

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Mattias IA Eklundh

  
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Mattias IA Eklundh’s is an artist known for his “out of the box” ideas and music style filled with a unique freedom, fascinating melodies that please the listeners’ ears, and extraordinary guitar techniques that are matched by none. Mattias has succeeded in blending these various aspects of music, creating music not only for the guitar freaks, but also sublimates his music in an accessible manner for mainstream listeners.

Mattias has released his long awaited 3rd album of the “Freak Guitar” series titled “SMORGASBORD”, and took time to talk to MUSE ON MUSE about his new studio effort.

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Pete Lesperance

Pete Lesperance is known for his work with the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. His highly technical guitar performance and guitar style with trademark licks definitely proves him to be a guitar hero. Pete is also known as a great songwriter and keeps fascinating his fans with his quality music. 

Unfortunately, Harem Scarem has broken up, but Pete continues to make and deliver his quality music to the fans. Pete Lesperance has now released his new solo album “Fade Into Stars” and proves that he is taking his music and performance as a singer and songwriter to another level.

Muse On Muse asks Pete about his new solo effort.

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Jeff “Skunk” Baxter

The legendary guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter is famous for not only taking important role in Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers, but also have been working as music producer, composer and session guitarist for tremendous projects and his contribution to the music industry is invaluable.
Jeff has recently released his first solo album “Speed Of Heat” and the record is filled by straightforward Rock feelings and his guitar with sensitive emotion give a life to instrumental tracks. Rich and musical melodies on this album touch the people who are in various different situation.
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter teamed up with his long musical friend C. J. Vanston and wrote, produced and arranged together. The synergy effect of those 2 of greats brought its sound, arrangement and melodies to the next level. This album is not a solo album of guitarist, it is a masterpiece for all music lovers.
We had a chat with the legend himself about the crucial album “Speed Of Heat”

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Simon Phillips

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Simon Phillips, one of the best Rock drummers has been working with legendary musicians, Jeff Beck, Michael Schenker, The Who, to name a few. No need to mention his brilliant works for the band TOTO.
Simon is not only the top level drummer, but also a top notch music creator who is enthusiastic about his project Protocol and makes use of his enormous talent for it.
The new Protocol consists of Simon Phillips (Drum), Alex Sill (Gtr), Jacob Scesney (Sax), Otomaro Ruiz (Key) and Ernest Tibbs (Bass). Each player contributed with their own style and colour to the new album which strikes Protocol fans with pure musical magic.
Also Alex Sill, who took over the guitar role from masters, Andy Timmons and Greg Howe, should be in the spotlight. He played his guitar differently from his predecessors wit his own clever and thrilling style and emphasized the power of Protocol.
We had a chat with Simon Phillips about the brand new 5th album of Prtocol, “Protocol V”.

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Andreas Gullstrand

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Swedish melodic Rock group CREYE has just released their debut album “CREYE”. This album showcased catchy soothing melodies, clear vocal and chorus, rich keyboard sounds with 80s feeling, dramatic structure and clever and emotional guitar sounds which emphasize songs.
Unfortunately the vocalist Robin Judhed and the keyboard player Joel Rönning has left the band but August Rauer[Vo] and Joel Selsfors[Key] joined the band.
The head honcho and the composer of CREYE, Andreas Gullstrand took some time to talk to Muse On Muse about this crucial new album “CREYE” which appears to Melodic Rock and AOR music fans.

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Angel Vivaldi

The guitarist Angel Vivaldi has been receiving remarkable attention for his musical works especially on Youtube. Angel’s music video for “A Martian Winter” which was dropped in 2012 went viral and hit more than 6 million views. His other music videos went on to hit over a few hundred thousand views and he currently has over one hundred thousand people subscribed to his youtube channel.
His highly technical guitar skills truly are an art form all their own and Angel’s sense to implement them at the right time really make the songs shine. The contrast of shredding technical guitar riffs and catchy beautiful melodies work well on the heavier tracks.
Listener’s have been attracted to the new album for it’s technical guitar, his musical taste and high production value. Also having guest musicians Nita Strauss from Alice Cooper and Guss G on the album helped to build the hype.
He took some time to talk to Muse On Muse about his musical background and his brand new set “Synapse”.

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Angel Vivaldi

Angel Vivaldi (エンジェル・ヴィヴァルディ)は、自身のYoutubeチャンネルの登録者数が11万、2012年に投稿のミュージック・ビデオ “A Martian Winter” が現時点で視聴回数620万回、その他の楽曲でも視聴回数が数十万回の単位に達しているなどインターネットを中心とした情報発信により多くのギター・ファンからの注目を集めているミュージシャン、ギタリスト。
エンジェルの音楽には、テクニカル、シュレッドといった高度なギター・テクニックはもちろん、それらテクニックを適材適所で使用することで楽曲映えさせる抜群のセンス、ヘヴィで激しい楽曲の中でさえキャッチーで美しい旋律が華麗に舞うさま等、真にアートを感じさせられる。
目下の最新作である「SYNAPSE」では、ゲストにNita Strauss(Alice Cooper)や、Gus Gを迎え入れるなどの話題性、そしてエンジェルの持つ卓越した作曲能力、ギターテクニック、センスが遺憾なく発揮されておりリスナーを強烈に惹きつける作品となっている。
音楽的なバック・グランドや目下の最新作「SYNAPSE」についてエンジェルに訊いた。

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Steve Gadd

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Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea…the list goes on and on for the countless artists Steve Gadd has shared the stage with and recorded for. Steve is definitely one of the best drummers in the world today.
Along with his musical friends Michael Landau (guitar), Larry Goldings (keyboards), Jimmy Johnson (bass), and Walt Fowler (trumpet & flugelhorn), Steve Gadd released a new album titled “70 Strong” commemorating his 70th birthday. The album displays a superb band ensemble by a group of world-class musicians, along with Steve Gadd’s detailed and dynamic drumming.
Steve Gadd talked to MUSE ON MUSE about his new album “70 Strong” and his approaches to drumming.

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