Continuing their collaboration together with hence inwards Los Angeles, they founded The California Guitar Trio inwards 1991. They give-up the ghost along to play inwards the New Standard Tuning. Their performances together with recordings include master compositions, surf covers, together with classical re-workings of classical music. Their influences include European classical music, rock, blues, jazz, world music, together with surf music.
The Trio's music was featured during the television coverage of the 1998 together with 2000 Olympic Games. It has been featured on CBS, NBC, CNN WorldBeat, together with ESPN TV programs. They performed on the 2003 Grammy Awards-nominated rail "Apollo" on Tony Levin's CD Pieces of the Sun. CGT music served equally wake-up music for the crew aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour.
The California Guitar Trio performed equally an opening deed for King Crimson, from which bassist Tony Levin together with drummer Pat Mastelotto regularly bring together the CGT for alive shows. CGT has shared the phase alongside many performancers, including the following: John McLaughlin, David Sylvian, Tito Puente, Leftover Salmon, Taj Mahal, Steve Lukather, Simon Phillips, Adrian Legg, Adrian Belew, Jon Anderson.
The Trio has released xvi albums: 7 studio CDs featuring master CGT songs together with a multifariousness of other industrial plant spanning numerous genres, 4 alive releases, together with a Christmas CD alongside Christmas music. Lams has equally good made a solo album of Bach preludes titled Nascent.
In August 2004 they released Whitewater, which was produced yesteryear Tony Levin. It features mainly master industrial plant of the CGT, offset yesteryear a puzzle-work scheme of a Bach lute suite together with a mashup of "(Ghost) Riders inwards the Sky" alongside The Doors' "Riders on the Storm." This was followed inwards 2008 yesteryear Echoes, an album composed alone of covers, together with 2010's Andromeda, the band's outset unloose to consist alone of master material. The 2012 unloose Masterworks is an all classical music compilation featuring music yesteryear Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Rossini together with Part. Chicago guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque played on Vivaldi's Winter, together with Tony Levin played upright bass together with cello on 4 tracks.
artist/the-california-guitar-trios-mn0000646378">The California Guitar Trio's Invitation is their follow-up to their fantabulous debut, Yamanashi Blues. What sets the albums apart is that at that spot is to a greater extent than master cloth on this release, together with it equally good contains the outset appearance of electrical guitar on a C.G.T. album. The opening "Train to Lamy" features distorted, buzzing electrical slide guitar, which is a sudden contrast to the build clean audio of the dueling acoustic guitars. The vocal is spread throughout the album, starting out alongside the outset 3 sewn together, spell its 4th together with 5th sections are heard later on on (with a reprise of part 3 closing the album). The trio in i trial again offers spirited versions of encompass songs, spanning several dissimilar musical styles. Included is the spaghetti western classic "The Good, the Bad together with the Ugly" yesteryear artist/ennio-morricone-mn0000798662">Ennio Morricone, the surf-rocker "Apache" (originally done yesteryear legendary British '60s instrumentalists the Shadows), equally good equally 2 J.S. Bach compositions ("Toccata together with Fugue inwards D Minor" together with "Prelude Circulation"). Nearly equally proficient equally their debut, together with highly recommended to whatsoever aficionado of instrumental music.
Tracks Listing
1. Train To Lamy Suite (Parts 1-3) (4:23)
2. Punta Patri (4:19)
3. Toccata And Fugue In D Minor (7:51)
4. Fratres (6:28)
5. Train To Lamy Part 4 (0:27)
6. Apache (3:00)
7. Train To Lamy Part five (2:04)
8. Above The Clouds (5:30)
9. Prelude Circulation (2:44)
10. The Good The Bad And The Ugly (2:36)
11. Train To Lamy Part 3 (Reprise) (1:24)
Total Time: 40:46
Line-up / Musicians
- Bert Lams / guitars
- Hideyo Moriya / guitars
- Paul Richards / guitars
Additional musicians:
- Trey Gunn / grand Stick
- Fernando Kabusacki / guitar
- Hernan Nunez / guitar
- Martin Schwutke / guitar
- Steve Ball / guitar
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