Continuing their collaboration as well as then inward Los Angeles, they founded The California Guitar Trio inward 1991. They proceed to play inward the New Standard Tuning. Their performances as well as recordings include master copy compositions, surf covers, as well as classical re-workings of classical music. Their influences include European classical music, rock, blues, jazz, world music, as well as surf music.
The Trio's music was featured during the television coverage of the 1998 as well as 2000 Olympic Games. It has been featured on CBS, NBC, CNN WorldBeat, as well as 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 as well as drummer Pat Mastelotto regularly bring together the CGT for alive shows. CGT has shared the phase amongst 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 sixteen albums: 7 studio CDs featuring master copy CGT songs as well as a multifariousness of other plant spanning numerous genres, iv alive releases, as well as a Christmas CD amongst Christmas music. Lams has too 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 copy plant of the CGT, offset yesteryear a puzzle-work organisation of a Bach lute suite as well as a mashup of "(Ghost) Riders inward the Sky" amongst The Doors' "Riders on the Storm." This was followed inward 2008 yesteryear Echoes, an album composed solely of covers, as well as 2010's Andromeda, the band's start unloose to consist solely of master copy material. The 2012 unloose Masterworks is an all classical music compilation featuring music yesteryear Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Rossini as well as Part. Chicago guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque played on Vivaldi's Winter, as well as Tony Levin played upright bass as well as cello on iv tracks.
The California Guitar Trio's Invitation is their follow-up to their first-class debut, Yamanashi Blues. What sets the albums apart is that at that spot is to a greater extent than master copy cloth on this release, as well as it too contains the start 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 construct clean audio of the dueling acoustic guitars. The vocal is spread throughout the album, starting out amongst the start iii sewn together, acre its 4th as well as 5th sections are heard afterwards on (with a reprise of purpose iii closing the album). The trio in i lawsuit to a greater extent than offers spirited versions of encompass songs, spanning several dissimilar musical styles. Included is the spaghetti western classic "The Good, the Bad as well as the Ugly" yesteryear Ennio Morricone, the surf-rocker "Apache" (originally done yesteryear legendary British '60s instrumentalists the Shadows), equally good equally 2 J.S. Bach compositions ("Toccata as well as Fugue inward D Minor" as well as "Prelude Circulation"). Nearly equally proficient equally their debut, as well as highly recommended to whatever 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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