Rahul Mukerji - Ma De Re Sha review

Year : 2017
Genre : Instrumental Melodic Rock
Origin : United States
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Rahul Mukerji's debut effort is a straight-to-the-point guitar album, in which the Indian-born artist showcases apt capacities and talent at coming up with Satrianiesque riffage-galore, and, not surprisingly, the music on display works the best whenever Mukerji attempts to go beyond the influential ties via sculpting out an authentic musical identity, which especially is noticeable in the track called Children of I-2, which this reviewer considers the stone cold sober high point of the release. Satriani himself would snap his famous fingers in approval upon hearing the aforementioned declaration, as the Flying in a Blue Dream-influence-, although thematically present, yields music that immediately goes for the core of playfully morose gloom, and channels content right from the heart of it. Read on to know more.

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Mr. Fastfinger - In Motion review

Year : 2012
Genre : Instrumental Rock
Origin : Finland
Label : Mad Guitar Records
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Mr. Fastfinger is a mainly instrumental-, massively guitar centered affair armed with a bravely-, eloquently expressed fascination towards the experimental language of Frank Gambale and Steve Vai, primarily. Think of jazz fusion that has the superb capacity of not taking itself lethally serious, BUT being relentless and scientifically serious at - well - not being serious. To put these contradictory phrases into more easily decipherable perspectives, think of the following compositional behavior : the music on the disc claims and praises the liberty to submit to any sort of dainty harmonic passage for a brief-but-sufficient amount of time, - I dare say that the harmonic passages always are elegant on the disc, in fact, I think they get better and better as the delivery progresses - yet the high frequency solo detail that the disc equally is about, has a highly adorable tendency to go top-of-the-heat quality on super-numerous occasions, when you scrutinize them from the angle of "mere" melodic power, and, from the angle of the articulated technical maturity and rigor they are executed with.

"Mountain Mover" is a definite highlight for me to showcase these traits, for example. I think this track makes Frank Gambale a happy man. See? He did not comment so far, suggesting to me to sit on an umbrella and open it. If you are familiar with the vastly significant experimental contributions of said virtuoso, - Steve Vai's Flexible Leftovers and Gambale's Coming To Your Senses both especially come to mind when having ears soaked into this stimuli - then you already have a silhouette for an impression to fill out later via an actual listening experience. Read on to find out more about this.

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Promotional Spot : Mr. Fastfinger - In Motion

Year : 2012
Genre : Instrumental Rock
Origin : Finland
Label : Mad Guitar Records
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Press release :

Mr.Fastfinger, the guitar Sensei, is back with a new adventure. New album “In Motion” is beyond a classical instrumental rock album. Energy, expression, feeling, emotion and guitar! “In Motion” are 12 compositions that flow perfectly together. The careful selection of glorious musical themes alternates with very intense, fast and emotional guitar solos, very loud riffs with tribal percussion, ambient keyboards and an amount of exotic instruments unmatched in the instrumental rock genre.


Featuring guests: Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), Thomas Blug and Timo Kämäräinen.
CD also includes a special fretboard game. And a secret link to access jam tracks and transcriptions to inspire your practicing and playing to new dimensions!

In Motion is released by Elektrik Pyjamas and distributed by the Mad Guitar Records.

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