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David Carr is a 'near 40' guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and record producer from Melbourne Australia. His professional guitarist career began in 1987 as a member of JANZ, a band which went on to win the world final of Band Explosion '88 in Japan out of 18,000 unsigned bands world wide. This lead to worldwide recording deals and recognition as an outstanding musician. To date he has toured internationally with many Australian acts and has appeared as a session guitarist on countless albums. His 'indie' sound has always seen him appear on songs where a distinctive and tasteful guitar part was preferred over that of a clichéd session player. His love of classic, retro and bizarre equipment reinforces his reputation as one who can pull a great sound from virtually any equipment and in any situation. He chooses equipment based on tone, functionality, simplicity and beautiful design. As a producer, David's "big" guitar and drum sounds were first recognized in the post-grunge 90's scene. His production, sounds and mixes are now acknowledged as those that give an album an international sound, from intimate organic acoustic through to the hardest rock. He also loves cats. ANIM8 - a 'new-prog' instrumental duo Textapopeye - bizarre high energy guitars, electronic beats and chants David Carr homepageDavid Carr @ MySpace |
| Born in Savo, Eastern Finland, Timo Kämäräinen is one of the busiest guitar players on the Finnish music scene. Having spent his early years listening to music and banging his mother's piano, his first guitar was bought in 1988 and soon after that, guitar-playing became definitely the biggest part of Timo's life. He had gone through a wide variety of musical styles before going to the high school in 1995; Charlie Parker and Pat Metheny were important influences in those days. Since then, Timo has relocated to Helsinki and has been playing in many top Finnish groups, whose styles have varied from experimental rock (Ismo Alanko Säätiö) to free jazz (Pepa Päivinen Quartet) and modern classical music (RSO/UMO). After working as a freelancer for a couple of years, Timo wanted to aim his energy towards his own projects, and his solo album Unea and Beagon's debut Countryside were released in the spring of 2005. Beagon’s second album Traffic is going to be released in August 2007. He also remains active with the groups of Pepa Päivinen, Lauri Porra, Tuomari Nurmio, and the Turga Trio.
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Timo Kämäräinen @ MySpace
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| Richard Lundmark is a 30-something guitar-equilibrist, heralding from the deep forests of Northern Sweden. His style ranges from rock to jazz, from metal to fusion and something in between. Richard has both released a critically acclaimed instrumental album (FretDance, 2003), and held popular guitar clinics in both Sweden and Japan. He is currently working on a full-length guitar instructional DVD entitled Electric Guitar Concepts. Fretdance
Richard Lundmark @ MySpace
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Harry Orlove started playing guitar at age 10 and did his first paying gig at age 11, where he made an astonishing $2.00. Needless to say, he was hooked. Having been on the road playing and recording since 17, soon Harry’s interest in the 5-string banjo and bluegrass music had become an obsession, and he worked in several ground breaking “new acoustic music” bands including Bottle Hill and The Monroe Doctrine.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1979, Harry landed a job in the house band of the World Famous Palomino Club where he got to work with music legends such as James Burton, Jimmy Bryant, Thumbs Carlisle, “Sneaky Pete” Kleinow and Jay Dee Maness. In his 27 years on the West Coast, Harry has recorded with a wide range of artists like Lawrence Juber, Billy Swan, Lee Greenwood, Albert Lee, Paul Young, Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Felix Cavalieri (The Rascals), and has also done a great deal of commercial studio work including spots for Coca-Cola and Gateway Computers, as well as work on various major films and television series. After years of working as a sideman with countless front-row artists and musicians, Harry finally got around to producing an Indy released CD titled Back From The Dead, which is available at CD Baby. It should also be noted that Harry was named Time Magazine’s “Person Of The Year” in 2006. |
| Lasse Sakara is a Helsinki-based Finnish guitarist who among others plays in Samuli Edelmann's band and jazz drummer Olavi Louhivuori's group Oddarrang, the latter of which received the Finnish Jazz-Emma award for their album Music Illustrated in 2007. Lasse has also appeared on Finnish national television on many occasions, playing in the house band of Finnish Idols among many other programs. On record, his versatile playing is showcased on albums by the likes of Jippu, Mikko Leppilampi, Husky Rescue, Miami, Lasse Mårtenson Remix, Essi Wuorela and Sansa. Oddarrang @ MySpace
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