Ear Candy 2007

[boxguitarist]

Here's my "best of 2007" list, in order of preference:

1) Fuzzy Logic Boptet - Playing Favorites
2) Tony Levin - Stick Man
3) Colin Jenkinson - Gravity is Just a Theory
4) Behold the Arctopus - Skullgrid

Have a great 2008 all !!!!!

[PhoBucket]

I didn't purchase nearly enough tap albums in 2007, but will put recordings by any of these on the list of highly anticipated releases for 2008 because their youtube and myspace clips are in high rotation:

Pascal Glanville
Rob Martino
Brett Bottomley

I've got 3 iTunes gift cards are burning a hole in my pocket.

Outside of tapping, my favorite ear candy purchase in 2007 was

Terence Blanchard - A Tale of G*d's Will (A Requiem for Katrina): the composition on this album is stunning.

[Tom Drinkwater]

Here are my favs for '07, unfortunately these were the only tap albums I bought this year.

1. Adam Fulara Double Shred

2. Steve Adelson Adventures in Stickology

[rjgoos]

http://cdbaby.com/cd/eberlen2

[Tom Drinkwater]

If I could play guitar half as well as Rich I wouldn't worry about learning to tap.

[tapmeister]

Hi all,

a couple of recent releases not mentioned here so far:

Pan-Metroploitan Trio's "Isolation," now the current CD feature at stick.com:

http://www.stick.com/features/cd/

And Pascal Gutman's "Ed Rehm" also available from SE
his myspace page is here:

http://www.myspace.com/pascalgutman

Both great-sounding discs... really well-produced, and great playing, writing interpetations and compositions.

Happy Tapping,
Greg

[glints-collide]

Touchstyle CD's of 2007:


Tuner - Pole

Quodia - The Arrow



Markus Reuter and Trey Gunn still reaching out to new frontiers.

The great thing about them:

they just create music, technique is just a tool!

[lwclaypool]

Also I would add Markus' latest centrozoon release Lovefield. Stunning work.

[Brett Bottomley]

Hey thanks for the mention Pho my Cd should be out within a month

Brett

[K Rex]

1) Colin Marston's "Indricothere"... a frightening display of drum programming ability via pro-tools. Apparently there is no ACTUAL programming, just insertation of drum samples via the grid function in that specific program. Blows BTA away... in my opinion. But that's what you get when you have total control over a project with no other input to confuse one's personal vision and concept. Awesome. www.myspace.com/indricothere

2) Time of Orchids "Namesake Caution". Great songwriting, weird production, awesome record. www.myspace.com/timeoforchids

3) The Flying Luttenbachers "Incarceration by Abstraction". Commercially irrelevant. Sonically caustic. Spatially deformative. Holy @#$%. These musicians are ill. www.myspace.com/theflyingluttenbachers

Just my 2 cents.

[Nightmare Music]

i bought Indricothere as well.. it's top notch.

comparing it to Behold the Arctopus though, is like comparing apples and oranges though. both are good in completely different ways. indricothere is death metal, bta is tech metal..

also worth checking out is Dysrhythmia, an instrumental math rock band that he plays bass. i have one of their albums before colin joined and it's top notch.

[K Rex]

Indricothere is every bit as technical as BTA... and darker... my favorite.

Dysrhythmia surprised me when I last saw them. Before Colin joined I didn't care for them. It seems Colin is a decent bassist, too... but the writing seems to have gotten way better, which made all the difference.

Have you heard the Luttenbachers or Upsilon Acrux?