Wayne Lovegrove composes and performs musical imagery for contemporary solo fingerstyle acoustic guitar. Multiple tunings, extended techniques, harmonic richness, fluid compositional style, and technical skill, combine to bring out the natural expressive resonance of the steel string acoustic guitar. From flowing, deep, liquid echoes to passages of precise blistering speed, this is instrumental music that leaves the listener open to form their own images to these varied textures and sounds. Wayne's playing incorporates an array of extended techniques including: alternate tunings; two handed fretboard work; guitar body percussion; and compositional freedom; in addition to a broad array of conventional fingerstyle techniques. "...master guitarist Wayne Lovegrove is on the cutting edge..." // "Doesn't that sound like about three guitars? No! It's one guy! One guitar!" // His fingers fly so quickly across the fingerboard, rhythmic patterns building and dancing, the energy soaring beyond his instrument and out into the room." ~ cduniverse.com
Tribu del Asfalto, the fourth release of this working band since 2005 features their live work while presenting new material that focuses on collective interaction and inter-webbed percussive textures. The music tries to seek a more tribal sound at the same time that it embraces complex rhythmic structures, while the improvisations are almost always collective letting individuals come out as part of the topography of the music. This is contrasted in the four solo tracks (named after each player) where each member is featured at the beginning or ending of a piece. ~ cduniverse.com
My music is usually labelled as 'dancefloor jazz', sometimes as 'boogaloo' or 'loungefusion'. It is a mix of jazz, blues, soul, funk and latin. It's real 21th century music with a flavour of the 70ties and 80ties of the last century. All vocals and keyboards are performed by myself and some friends. All other instruments are played by extremely competent musicians, most of them being personal friends. ~ cduniverse.com
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