Fusion City Groove

Mark Halliwell

Fusion City Groove
Performed By Mark Halliwell
Album UPC 700261880686
CD Baby Track ID 9800825
Label Zala Music
Released 2012-12-02
BPM 105
Rated 0
ISRC usx9p1219435
Year 2012
Spotify Plays 56
Writers
Writer Mark Edward Halliwell
Songwriter ID 1798739
Pub Co CD Baby Publishing
Composer Mark Edward Halliwell
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Publisher Admin CD Baby Publishing
Rights Controlled Master and Publishing
Rights One-Stop: Master + 100% Publishing
Original/Cover/Public Domain original
Country AUSTRALIA - Victoria
Lyrics Language Instrumental

Description

Halliwell has delivered the promised Instrumental ‘guitar’ album, bookending one era and signalling the arrival of a brave new world of Fusion, Funk and Guitar-Solo heaven…

Notes

This record is not the usual virtuoso fare designed to thrill your average obsessive guitar geek. The strings of the Halliwell guitars may strum, bend and twang in a suspiciously virtuosic manner, but they are only there to serve the breezy melodies and swirling rhythms which are the hallmarks of this incredible recording. Also, for a record intended to pay homage to the hallowed chunk of maple wood, keys and lilting piano abound a-plenty. Add in a few generous doses of funk, jazz and rock fusion, and you have Guitar Suite in the Key of Enlightenment.
Opener ‘Space Funk Baby’ does not disappoint with fuzzy bass riff and airy guitars solos, and neither does ‘The Golden Ratio’ with its gentle acoustic sounds giving way to some floating guitar and keyboard riffology. ‘Fusion City Groove’ is a confident statement, taking the listener on a sojourn of jazz and rock fusion. This is the sound of cruising through a bay-side metropolis in your convertible, the top down as you make for the palm trees and surfside views…this could easily be Halliwell’s 461 Ocean Boulevard.
‘Crazy Patchwork Guitar’ is experimental with odd scales and notes juxtaposed to create a slightly uneasy guitar-scape, while ‘Suite Ensemble’ comes on with a welcome warm acoustic serenade, lulling the listener before it seagues into an inflective hard rock groove. With Halliwell, things are never quite as they seem, as per the eighties-style pop beats of ‘Flower of Life’ which are overlaid with atmospheric riffs, and then replaced by an extended outro of edgy jazz rock n roll. ‘Sweet as Applepie’ starts with a plaintive lilt before taking off with trade-mark harmonised guitar solos.
It’s a brave new world, nothing is quite as it seems, and cruising through a city in a convertible is cool. These are the messages which flow from Enlightenment. So why not get in and go for a ride?

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