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A hot instrumental, album from one of the world’s leading female rock guitarists. With Foucher on guitar & keyboards, John Vittori contributing solid electric bass work and Matt Scurfield providing a sterling performance on drums, every composition on this 10-track album oozes quality. For starters, the production is first rate, allowing you to experience every facet of Jaye’s music, with a crisp, fresh, organic and vibrant sound. The playing is exemplary too, with compositions that, no matter what the level of intensity and atmosphere, never fail to keep your absolutely riveted. The music features some marvellous layers, with a full, solid feel throughout all forty-five minutes, but it’s the way she puts the tracks together that is the secret to the real enjoyment of the album. Take ‘Angst’ (track 2) for instance, with its fantastic combination of electric guitar leads over an acoustic guitar backdrop, rumbling bass and chunky percussion, opening in a gloriously bluesy manner as the track flows forward – it’s full of melody and the emotional intensity levels are set just at the perfect level for the piece. A riff sparks into life and takes the tune off into solid rocking realms at a pace that is powerful, heavy and intense, but not fast or over indulgent in any way, and the track swings back and forth between the two styles in a balanced and blissful manner. All 10 tracks are kept at just the right length for you to get maximum enjoyment without getting distracted or feeling that you’ve not heard enough of the ideas on offer. This is the sort of album that anyone into instrumental rock music should be able to appreciate and enjoy long-term – The sound of instrumental rock at its finest!

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Weight: 150.00 g

It’s funny, you know – you review all these rock guitar instrumental albums and, quite rightly, praise the gems, often saying how genuinely hot they all are. But then something comes along that simply towers over everything else and becomes a benchmark by which you should, theoretically, judge the others. Only trouble is, when an album is THAT good, you can’t possibly use it as said benchmark otherwise you’d end up with nothing to say about any of it! Now, at this point, you’re expecting me to say that this is that album – the ‘ultimate’ rock guitar album – well, it isn’t  - but it’s close. 12 tracks between just over two and just over five minutes long, mostly testify to a band whose delivery, arrangements and composition are the pinnacle of economy. No note is wasted and no notes are superfluous, yet the result is one astoundingly rock oriented, superbly played, dynamic and blood-rushing album that has guitar work to die for and a rhythm section so fantastic sounding that they deserve to pick up an award for their contribution. A couple of tracks don’t quite carry it off, but mostly this is electric guitar work at its finest - Riffs, solos and rhythms cruising and surging effortlessly forward – Its powerful rather than heavy, although turned up loud enough, it’s heavy and metallic enough for most, albeit somewhat tastier. Overall, as good as it gets really, and if you like quality, variation, range and dynamics in your rock guitar music rather than just full-on force, then this is essential.

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Weight: 150.00 g

Sometimes, admittedly very rarely, an album comes along that is so unique, creative and original as to be, not only ahead of its time, but also regarded as a genuine landmark in musical history. The 3 tracks on this album were recorded ten years ago, and even now the music is still ahead of its time, and can really be seen as one of the finest albums of the last 20 years. Refusing to be pigeon-holed - it's not just rock or fusion or jazz or psychedelic or Kraut rock laced - It actually stands outside of all of those frames of reference, and yet it is melodic and has tons of rhythmic complexities and subtleties, but above all, particularly on the opening track, it has a sound that is unlike anything else you will have encountered. The music is alive and organic, yet restrained and dynamic, mixing the crashing, driving, solid stop-start drumming with the constant, ringing electric guitar layers that run through the heart of the mix. Lead lines soar and dive in a manner unlike music made by any other guitarist - A flowing mix of power, delicacy, restraint, grace and beauty in a sea of tight, solid drums and splashing cymbals. Of the 3 tracks, the first is the epic forty-four minute title track, where an electric guitarist and drummer play a unique form of jamming improvisational music that’s different from any other guitar and drums based album in existence, mainly because of its structure, mood and sound. Track 2 is a nine-minute piece with a spacier mood and the final track at seven and a half minutes features a mix of intense cosmic, shimmering, melodic soundscapes with solid rhythms that surge forth.

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Weight: 150.00 g

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Oh boy – you have just GOT to hear this – it’s fantastic!!!! Right from the opening track (and forgive me for this Dave), you’re immediately plunged into the glories that were ‘Bridge Of Sighs’/’For Earth Below’ – era Robin Trower, only better! With superb and similar sounding vocals, steaming upfront bluesy guitar, excellent, crunchy, crisp sounding drum/cymbal work and a set of smokin’ blues guitar solos, this album will just blow you away, believe me! The opener lasts just under six minutes and the power you have to exert over yourself to avoid forgetting track 2 in favour of an immediate re-run of the opener, would test any grown man to his limits! But you continue, and, luckily, so does the quality of the music, as track 2 surges ahead on a lurching guitar riff, a solid rhythm section and those suitably sounding bluesy vocals, highlighted by another set of brief guitar solos. From there on in, the album never looks back as a storming selection of electric blues tracks puts a smile on your face for sixty-five minute. Unusually, these are all-original compositions, all of which sounds fresh and crisp, as though electric blues and all the passions associated with it, had only just been discovered for the first time. This trio play it straight down the line – no keyboards, no sax, or anything equally intrusive – just vari-paced songs that are delivered with a consistent quality and power-packed production. The rhythms are rock-solid and the incredible riffs and solos electrifying – These are axe tracks that you’ll play and play and play for years to come, making it possibly THE finest electric blues album of the last ten years, with comparisons to, and possibly even eclipsing, the best that the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Kenny Wayne Shepherd have to offer, and no mistake – This is AMAZING!

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Weight: 150.00 g