Guillaume Gargaud
French guitarist Guillaume Gargaud is a renowned improvisor with a unique style and approach. He’s toured the world and released over 35 albums of original music. He’s worked with a multitude of collaborators, including Henry Kaiser, Jack Wright, and Burton Greene.
While Guillaume’s work spans electric and experimental, we focus on his acoustic guitar playing. Guillaume’s abstract improvisations offer a fascinating journey into a world of imagination using the most familiar of musical tools. He contributed a piece, “Improvisation,” to the 2021 Right Brain Records project Guitar Improv Summit Vol. 2. Now, we’re thrilled to announce his first RBR album.
Kōenji is the new record, a suite of seven solos recorded in Le Havre, France in spring of 2023. See this review in Avant Music News.
Hear Kōenji on Bandcamp.
“Free flowing yet complex harmonies unfold with a logic that, for all its apparent spontaneity, coheres around the lead of a handful of well-considered ideas. All of this is played with a sure touch that brings out the bright-edged, austere beauty of the unaccompanied instrument in its fullness.”
Hear GIS Vol. 2 on Bandcamp.
“Guillaume Gargaud’s style of improvisational guitar is intriguing and absorbing... His music will lift you to enormous euphoric highs via twisted glacial landscapes and then leave you breathless in a black hole of psychedelia”
Here’s Guillaume in Helsinki, just before the recording of Kōenji.
“Beautiful ideas come and go and never return, which merits repeated listening... there’s never a dull moment on this release. ”
Guillaume with Jack Wright.