Dom Brown

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Dom Brown is a UK based guitarist, song-writer and producer, who is known for the work with big name Duran Duran. Dom joined forth with the band’s world tour for four times, their recording for 3 full albums and he co-wrote over 20 songs with the crew on “All You Need Is Now” and “Paper Gods”. The talent has released his new solo album “In My Bones” and has proven his skill as a multi-player who writes, arranges, produces and plays guitar and other instruments. All tracks on the album are top-notch and it has a potential to reach wide variety of music fans. We had a chat with Dom Brown himself about his musical background and new solo album “In My Bones”.

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Dom Brown

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英国にてギタリスト/作曲家/プロデューサーとして活動しているドム・ブラウン。セッションミュージシャンとしてもデュラン・デュランのライヴやレコーディングに参加している。デュラン・デュランでは、この16年間で4回のワールドツアーに参加し、3枚のアルバムをレコーディング、アルバム「All You Need Is Now」（2011年）と「Paper Gods」（2015年）では20曲以上を共同作曲している。そのように才能溢れるドムがニュー・ソロ・アルバム「IN MY BONES」をリリースした。この作品ではギタリストとしてのドムの素晴らしさは勿論、プロデューサー、作曲家・編曲家、マルチプレイヤーも手掛けるなどミュージシャンとしての総合力が存分に発揮されている。作品に収録されたどの楽曲も完成度が高く、幅広い音楽ファンに受け入れられる魅力的なものとなっている。ドム・ブラウンに彼の音楽的背景やニュー・ソロ・アルバム「IN MY BONES」について語って貰った。

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Carl Verheyen

Carl Verheyen’s latest album, “RIVERBOAT SKY,” has been released. His authentic guitar tones, brought to life by his genuine guitar playing, are truly the marks of a master. Of the eight tracks on this album, seven feature vocals, with the remaining track, “APRIL SURPRISE,” being purely instrumental. The core group consists of Carl’s familiar tour band: John Mader on drums, Dave Marotta on bass, and Troy Dexter on keys. Additionally, they’re joined by Jim Cox on keyboards, Chad Wackerman on drums, and Alex Acuna on percussion. Notably, the title track “RIVERBOAT SKY” features a vocal duet between Carl and Sophia James, who is known from the U.S. audition show, American Idol.

With such a strong lineup, this album showcases Carl’s distinctive and comforting vocals and masterful guitar play. Beyond that, it’s enriched with spontaneous improvisations from all the instruments. It’s a well-balanced work that will appeal to fans who love vocal tracks, as well as those who prefer instrumental numbers.

We had a chance to chat with Carl about his latest album, “RIVERBOAT SKY.”

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Guthrie Govan

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The Aristocrats consists of Gathrie Guthrie Govan [guitar] ,Bryan Beller [bass] and Marco Minnemann [drums]. The band is a union of technically advanced players who deeply understand different type of music from Jazz to Fusion to Progressive Rock to Country to Blues to anything beyond, and can merge them together into the original Aristocrats style. Their newly released 4th original album “You Know What…?” displays rich sound elements from each member and their musical expressions based on technics pull listeners into the magical world of Aristocrats. The crucial album could be listened from the beginning to the end in one go like a roller coaster. We had a chat with the one of the most technical guitarist, Guthrie Govan who is respected by not only music fans who are into Guitar instrumental music or Rock or Fusion and other top guitarists about the new set “You Know What…?”

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Carl Verheyen

Carl Verheyen, known for his work with British rock group SUPERTRAMP, is one of the busiest musicians in the LA studio scene. Carl has worked and collaborated with numerous famed artists, as well as on film and television soundtracks. He has recently released his latest solo album “The Grand Design”, which appeals to a wide range of music fans with a high quality collection of vocal songs featuring Carl’s soft and clear vocal performances. No worries for the guitar freaks that look forward to listening to Carl’s extraordinary guitar techniques! The album definitely displays all of Carl Verheyen’s musicianship including great guitar tones with dynamics, phrases and licks with style, and numerous musical arrangements that are nothing but fascinating. Hear what Carl has to say about “The Grand Design”.

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Philip Sayce

Philip Sayce is a guitar player popular to both rock and blues fans. He is known for his magnificent dynamics and emotional performances, which resonates not only in the ears of the listener, but all the way into the heart. Philip Sayce has constantly been releasing quality music, and his collection of albums, old and new, are now available in Japan.

Philip Sayce’s new album “Steamroller” has been released this year in Japan, along with the re-releases of all of his past albums starting with “Peace Machine”. The 4 albums definitely portray Philip evolving and growing as a musician. Philip took time to talk to us about his new “Steamroller” album, as well as about his past albums.

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