Tag: instrumental
Slang: “Growing Wild” builds dense soundscapes with sparkling guitar riffs and solos
“Growing Wild” is the 6th solo album by Canadian guitarist, producer Slang. It is an all instrumental album with a base of hard rock served [more…]
Guido Voza: “Circle” – inspired by the novel “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” by Friedrich Nietzsche
Italian multi-instrumentalist, Guido Voza, who plays the guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums, has presented his 14 track concept album, entitled “Circle”. The album is inspired [more…]
Natt Moore: “Alpha” ft. Ella Bianchi is as much about the journey as its component sounds
Natt Moore, owner of Contempstrumental Records, as well as electronica, experimental, and ambient, composer and producer, based in UK has released another single, entitled “Alpha” [more…]
Guitarist DEAR_JAZZROCK fits his best qualities and sensibilities into each song
Guitarist Taweechok Kaewkam (a.k.a. DEAR_JAZZROCK) is a former artist with Sony Music, Thailand, who has success in the fields of Jazz, Blues, Rock, Latin, Fusion, [more…]
Don Hughes: “It’s Christmas” – essential Christmas music!
Don Hughes started playing piano at 8 years old. Starting as a junior in high school, he competed in high school talent shows, and the [more…]
Corbeau du Nord: “Le Purgatoire” – a cinematic soundtrack!
Jason Bernier was born in 1978 in Longueuil, in the Montréal’s south shore, Québec. Coming from a modest background and raised by a single mother, his [more…]
Konglo: “The Konglomerate” – a sense of limitless creativity, squeezed into the music!
What amazes me about “The Konglomerate” EP is how each track seems to be a well-constructed, unique, escapade into its own realm, guided by someone [more…]
Gilbert Engle: “2014 Classical Guitar” recalls profound artistic conviction
Gilbert Engle is a musician, composer and artist who has been composing music for over 30 years. Gilbert started his career as a Java programmer. At age 47, [more…]
Tyler Reese: “Reminiscence” – lively, innovative, and rewarding Jazz Fusion
Tyler Reese is a 23-year-old guitar virtuoso with extensive experience in live performance, writing, production, studio, and session work. Tyler is an innovator of Contemporary [more…]
DARKMOOD: “The Haunting” – a taste for the darkly unfathomable!
Mind-boggling and delicious, DARKMOOD delivers a myriad of unraveled stylistic forms; beauty, grace, and eerie transitions into the deep unknown. He is beyond most anything [more…]
Guitarist Tyler Teeple Finds The Perfect Balance Between Power and Complexity!
Tyler Teeple grew up in the small town of Fergus, Ontario. His brother received a guitar for his birthday and at the age of 12 [more…]
Lars Rüetschi: “Merry-Go-Round” – distilling the essence of music
If you enjoy solo piano recordings that convey heart and soul, this is for you. Performer, Composer, and Producer Lars Rüetschi, has released the contemporary classical single [more…]
Sleeping Thunder: “Across The Tracks” – The Sounds Of The City
Once upon a time there was Peter A. Bruce aka Sleeping Thunder a NH based artist inspired by hikes, kayaking, and Native American things. Peter had released a host [more…]
Eric Hausmann: “Troika” – Intoxicating soundscapes and solid guitar work
Eric Hausmann is very conceptual when he composes, unlike most of the musicians out there, and that’s not good or bad, is just something he [more…]
Mirko Filacchioni: “In Guitar We Trust” – blend of rock, oriental and brass instrumentation
Inspired by guitarists as Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, Mirko Filacchioni is an Italian guitarist/songwriter who has just [more…]
Alex Coombes: “Hitori” – Guitar Heaviness and Translucent Soundscapes
Based in Suffolk, Alex Coombes has been working as a session musician and guitar teacher for several years now. At the age of 15 he [more…]
Natt Moore: “Closure” is a captivating, fascinating and eerie ambient piece
“Closure” is captivating, fascinating and eerie, and I’m talking about the musical score by Natt Moore – owner of Contempstrumental Records – electronica, experimental, ambient, [more…]
Peasant Magic: “Precursive” – beautiful atmospheres that almost demand to ‘soundtrack’ something!
Whenever you bump into extraordinarily creative bands who delve in experimental music for the most part, a good place to start, is by reading the [more…]
Skonnie: “Blue Eyes and a Smile”, featuring the guitar pyrotechnics of Sal Moretta
On the latest Skonnie instrumental release, “Blue Eyes and a Smile”, featuring the guitar pyrotechnics of Sal Moretta, there are moments of shear compositional and [more…]
