This is the first of a set of weekly updates I intend to make on this page.
Premise is simple. Each week I promote an artist of my choosing. Musicians, painters, architects, who ever I feel deserves mentioning. Some will be well known, others more obscure, either way it'll be an interesting journey. I intend to make an update each Friday, giving me a chance to 'discover' artists during the rest of the week before. Not every artist I'll promote will be liked by all, so I will be deleting troll posts. Constructive criticism, however, is more then allowed.
Ok on to this week's artist:
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Dominic Frasca is a one man band with a guitar. After rolling around on youtube this week for lulsy videos of guitar hero geeks, I stumbled across one video titled "Impossible Guitar" that blew my mind.
Dominic plays 8 and 10 string customised guitars, utilising classical and 'hard rock' guitar techniques such as tapping, pull offs and hammer ons. The distinctive sound is created for each piece with the aid of mini capos, each one screwed onto the guitar specifically for that tune. He also owns several customised guitars, and for mutli song performances has individual guitars tuned for that particular piece.
Dominic also utilises a laptop to help with sound management, acting as his own sound manager, but in no way does he use it for overdubbing or similar trickery.
The embedded video below is a recording of one of my more favourite pieces, "John's Not Taken", a piece comissioned for the New York Guitar Festival. It's a brilliant, relaxing piece with a mix of sadness and joy in its melody. I'd advise you temporary turn up your speakers to near full as the recording is very quiet compared to "Impossible Guitar."
Enjoy.