Rock / Alternative
MattRach (Prounounced Matt Rash) is a phenomenal French guitarist. His musical style is very diverse because he is in love with all kinds of music. Mattrach has become well known and famous thanks to his internet videos, where he has had incredible success. His YouTube videos have received more than 85 million views! Redemption is MattRach's latest solo CD and covers many differnt styles of instrumental rock.
Progressive Rock / Funk / Blues
Sébastien Cloutier's second full-length CD is a step forward in both production and song composition. The songs on "Correlations" offer up bold takes on Funk, African Rhythms, Progressive Rock, Ambient, and Blues.
Progressive Rock / Fusion
"Sébastien Cloutier's music is very melodic, powerful, subtle, majestic and sometimes larger than life. This album not only shows Sébastien's talent as a guitarist, but also showcases his abilities as a composer, melodist, producer, arranger and sound engineer. You'll be moved in a universe of very diverse sonic experiences." - Antoine Dufour
Electric Guitar / Rock / Fusion
“ElectriGuitartistry” is the first solo-album from guitar virtuoso Steffen Schackinger. Steffen has created an album that rings new and fresh while remaining loyal to the legacy of classic rock and fusion.
Instrumental
Live sessions, captured on HD video and recorded in Ray Montford's Soundhole Studios, puts on display Ray Montford's hypnotic compositions and beautiful guitar phrasings on his chosen instrument. Ray Montford's narrative style is melodic, powerful and haunting. He has released six albums of original music that fuses rock, world, folk/country and blues/jazz into a dynamic concert repertoire.
Instrumental
Critically-acclaimed Canadian guitarist-composer, Ray Montford, unveils his sixth album, a fragile balance, his most cinematic to date. Inspired by a series of unforeseen events, this is a soulful exploration of life's journeys, highlighted by Montford's buttery blues/rock electric tones and deft acoustic fingerstyle work.
Electric Guitar
Resolution, from the Andy Timmons Band is an impressive monument of extraordinary guitar-texture-aggressive, inspired, blissful, and simply irresistible. Bolstered by Timmons' blazing virtuosity and immaculate song craft, the record is an imaginative marriage of studied dynamics, smoldering grooves and hard-hitting musicality.
Electric Guitar
That Was Then This is Now features 11 tracks compiled from ear X-tacy 1 and 2 (newly re-mastered!), plus 5 new tracks featuring the original Andy Timmons Band line-up of Mitch Marine on drums and Mike Daane on bass.
Electric Guitar
Up Close is merely Eric Johnson served straight-up: it is not far removed from the feel of Ah Via Musicom, lacking only the major melodies that sucked in crossover listeners, but Johnson’s journey is not one of innovation, it’s of refinement and he continues to find interesting ways to hone his specific craft on Up Close.
Electric Guitar
'Bloom' features 16 new songs ranging the stylistic gamut, which has always been Johnson's approach on his solo albums. 'Bloom' will appeal to Johnson's longtime fans while also bringing new ones into the fold.
Electric Guitar
Johnson is an admitted perfectionist, and those traits seemed to work against Ah Via Musicom's follow-up release. Unhappy with his recordings, Johnson mastered—then subsequently scrapped—several completed tracks for the new album and delayed its release for a period of six years. Venus Isle is his 4th solo cd.
Electric Guitar
The album's second cut, Cliffs of Dover, exemplified his unique sound and won Johnson a 1991 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Ah Via Musicom was a crossover hit, and was soon certified platinum.
Electric Guitar
Prince caught one of Johnson's performances on the public television program Austin City Limits and recommended that Warner Brothers sign Johnson. They did, and 1986 saw the release of Johnson's major-label debut, Tones.
Fusion
In 2007 Jeff Beck performed a series of concerts at the renowned Ronnie Scott's club in London. They became the must have ticket of the year with a packed audience every night of the famous and the fans. This CD features performances recorded across the different nights and presents the best version of each track.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Are You Experienced was the debut album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in 1967. The album highlighted Jimi Hendrix's psychedelic, feedback-laden electric guitar mastery, and launched him as a superstar.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Axis: Bold as Love is the second album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in 1967 . Following the seminal Are You Experienced, the band delivered another classic, although Axis: Bold As Love is overshadowed by its predecessor and successor (Electric Ladyland). The group, however, undoubtedly sounds more confident and more proficient than it did on its debut.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Electric Ladyland is a rock album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in 1968. This album is seen as the peak of Hendrix's mastery of the electric guitar, and it is frequently cited as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Not only the last Jimi Hendrix Experience album, it was also the last of Hendrix's studio albums to be professionally produced under his own supervision.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Band of Gypsys is a live album by Jimi Hendrix. Released before his death in 1970, it was the last album Hendrix himself authorized. The recordings included on Band of Gypsys featured selections from the final two shows, which were performed on the evening of January 1, 1970.
Electric Guitar / Rock
BBC Sessions (1998) is a compilation album of recordings by the rock group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on MCA Records. It contains tracks from various appearances on BBC radio and television programmes, such as 'Saturday Club' and 'Top Of The Pops', mainly recorded in 1967.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Black Swans is pure guitar prog, filled with compressed boogies, sci-fi synths, exotic flourishes, and all of Satch’s phasers and flangers in full-tilt overdrive.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Super Colossal is a 2006 album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani. It is his tenth studio album recorded at Studio 21 by Joe Satriani.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Satriani set himself apart from other would-be kings of the six-string in the 1980s by combining impeccable technique with great feel and pop hooks. With those qualities, he produced great guitar-driven albums like Surfing With the Alien and Flying in a Blue Dream. On this 2002 release, Satriani tries to make his music fresh by incorporating world music influences and a bit of techno flava.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Crystal Planet is a 1998 instrumental rock album from guitarist Joe Satriani. It is likened to his classic 1989 release Flying in a Blue Dream in terms of sonics (returning from the blues/jazz toned "Joe Satriani", and the "big sounds" The Extremist) and songwriting, and features his first recorded use of a 7-string guitar (an Ibanez "Universe" model - this was before Ibanez had made him a custom "JS" seven-string) on the track "Ceremony".
Electric Guitar / Rock
Surfing With the Alien is the second album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani, released in 1987. Often regarded as one of the most important guitar albums of the 1980s, Surfing helped Satriani establish his reputation as a top virtuoso in the field of guitar playing.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Real Illusions: Reflections is the first album of new material since Steve Vai's 1999 studio release The Ultra Zone. The album was released on February 22, 2005. It is the first piece of a three part concept album about a town visited by the godsent Pamposh and his construction of the Church, Under It All.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Passion and Warfare is a 1990 instrumental album from guitarist Steve Vai. It has been described by some critics as one of the greatest hard rock guitar albums of all time. It has been certified 2 times Platinum.It was written based on a series of dream sequences that Vai had when he was younger.
Electric Guitar / Rock
Fire Garden is divided into two "phases". Phase 1, consisting of everything from "There's a Fire in the House" to "Fire Garden Suite", is all instrumental (with the exception of Devin Townsend's backwards vocals on "Whookam" and some more vocals toward the end of "Fire Garden Suite"). The remainder of the album, Phase 2, features Vai on vocals on every song except "Warm Regards", which is an instrumental.