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Mojo Roots Music (Slide World Styles in Resophonic Guitar)

Fernando Perez

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The Resophonic Guitar: also known as Dobro or National: is an instrument from theguitar family. Created with the purpose of having a louder guitar to be heard over brass instruments, it fell out of interest when the electric guitar was discovered. Throughout the years, Blues, Country and Hawaiian players adopted it for their music, helping but

The Resophonic Guitar: also known as Dobro or National: is an instrument from theguitar family. Created with the purpose of having a louder guitar to be heard over brass instruments, it fell out of interest when the electric guitar was discovered. Throughout the years, Blues, Country and Hawaiian players adopted it for their music, helping but narrowing its use to only three styles. In my music quest for new, genuine sounds in this beautiful instrument called guitar, I came across resophonic guitars which inspired and offer me horizons I never imagined. Using my passion for cultures and this new discovery, I wanted to reflect throughout music the link we all have as human beings, one more time proving, that the only differences and barriers between us are just the ones we created.

One of the main ways of playing the Resophonic guitar is using a bottleneck or slide, sliding on top of the strings this creates what most people agree on being the closest sound to the human voice achieved on a guitar. Most players also use what we call 'Open Tunings', meaning the guitar is tuned differently than a 'standard tuning' that is what most guitar players use to play guitar. Although there are a great variety of open tunings I've also used others developed specially for the particular piece, such is the case for 'Ame' as it is explained later.

Among the songs in this CD you will hear echoes of the Hawaiian islands, 'Kalani','Ahi', 'Hawaiian Dream' and 'Wiki Wiki' are examples of it. You can notice a certain spanish Bolero air in 'Ahi', as well as the Ragtime rhythm in 'Wiki Wiki'. 'Spooky' is simply some Jazz with lots of weirdness while 'Rain Forest' and 'LaNika' are straight up contemporary acoustic pieces. From the orient I have a traditional Japanese piece for Koto called 'Ame', and inspired by the old asian 'Samurai Song' I wrote 'Oriental'. From central and south america comes 'Tango', remembrances of the argentinean style with a short Habanera from Cuba. 'Top of the Mountain' contains a so called 12/8 rhythm popular all around Afrika, while 'Afrikan Melody' came from Mali, in the west side of the continent. And in 'Arabian' I used a style learned from the gypsies in Spain, although the origins of this Rumba style have been traced to Middle East and Afrika.

The Message

In the World we are living nowadays, where there is still people that don't wake up, where people still don't realize that our Treasure in this Earth is sliding out of our hands, my existence is just a call for those who can't see what's going on. Let's stay positive although Realistic! My music is just a vehicle to reach more Souls that are yet to be awaken and to keep at ease that ones already awaken, no matter Creed, Race, Nationality, or anything that might look different, animals, plants or humans, call us just beings, we are all ...

One Essence.

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