Acoustic Guitar Masters

Think you’ve heard every sound the acoustic guitar is guitar is capable of making? This may change your mind. Right Brain Music Podcast epsiode 27 is the second in a series featuring artists from the new Guitar Improv Summit Vol. 2 album. Listen below, meet three uniquely talented acoustic guitar improvisers, and stretch your vision of this familiar instrument’s possibilities.

They are:

• Jim Matus, a veteran of world fusion,and progressive rock,who plays an unusual invention called the laoutar

• Joel Veena, who has mastered the exotic Indian slide guitar, and

• Guillaume Gargaud, an avant garde jazz wizard who creates spellbinding abstract compositions in real time.

This episode is another joint effort with The World Fusion Show, a public access TV program hosted by Derrik Jordan.

Here’s a playlist of music included in the podcast episode, plus links to these artists and related TWFS episodes:

Jim Matus

1. “Cloud Call”

2. “Mental Electric”

3. “Initiation” (with Derrik and Tony Vacca, from Impulse Ensemble)

4. “Cloud Call reprise.

Hear “Seeing Things,” Jim’s contribution to the Guitar Improv Summit Vol. 2 album.

Jim’s website

Jim on The World Fusion Show

Joel Veena

1. “Improvisation in Raag Bhairavi” (from Guitar Improv Summit Vol. 2)

2. “Raga Jog-Gat in Teental” (with Amit Singhal and Suraj Nirwan, from Milhap)

Joel’s website

Joel’s Bandcamp site

Joel on The World Fusion Show

Guillame Gargaud

1. “Improvisation” (from Guitar Improv Summit Vol. 2)

2. “Apart Together” (with Burton Greene, from Magic Intensity)

3. “Mystery Travel” (from Strange Memories)

Guillaume’s website

Guillaume’s Bandcamp site.

Hear the Summit album on Bandcamp.