Danish guitarist Steen Grøntved is a veteran of the session music scene having appeared on countless releases over the last few years (within
On the music Steen has offered some of his observations (which can be read in full at the LM website). Opener ‘Timber’ explores Greg Howe inspired waters, ‘The Worm’ was ‘written’ (with small bars) directly into the key-editor of Cubase with no instruments around. ‘Playground’ is simple, soft and melodic whilst ‘Home Planet’ is a melodic pop song before the rocking ‘Run’ ventures into Joe Satriani inspired waters. ‘Bye’ is a take on traditional Danish song melody. ‘Secret Lab’ can be seen as a brother track to ‘The Worm’ followed by the delicate and pristine 8 finger tapping track ‘My Butterfly’. ‘Still Here’ is another slice of melodic lead guitar over a rich backing before ‘Round and Around’ possesses a big expansive sound inspired by West African rhythms. ‘What Mango?’ is ‘mamba from hell’ playing around with poly-rhythms and the album is rounded out with ‘Find The Pick’ showcasing a slap guitar technique on a traditional Spanish guitar.
On the music Steen comments, “I have worked a lot as a studio musician, which means that in most cases I haven’t really been in charge. My goal with making this record was to try to free my mind and just compose the things that came to my mind without worrying about if it was saleable or listenable. In most other relationships I have composed together with other people and there is a lot of advantages by doing that but there are some too by sometime composing alone and I really like both. This is one of the few projects I have been involved in, where I decided to compose and arrange the entire thing alone. It was very hard to find a bass-player that dared to test his skills with some of the weird poly-rhythms. After 3-4 phone-calls with “uhhh....no..well... thats.... not really my style...’s” I finally called Nikolaj Storr who said ”no problem - I’m used to that kind of music!”.
Track List:
01. Timber
02. The Worm
03. Playground
04. Home planet
05. Run
06. Bye
07. Secret lab
08. My Butterfly
09. Still Here
10. Round and around
11. What Mango?
12. Find the pick
Musicians:
v Steen Grøntved: Guitar, Guitarsynths., arr/compositions, key prg.
v Josef Aarskov: Drums, Vocals on ”Still here”
v Nikolaj Storr: Bass
v Kim Adrian: Percussion
v Lars Ringgaard: Blues harp on ”What mango?”
Production Credits:
v Recording engineers: Daniel Steffen, Birgitte Jensen, Josef Aarskov
Mix Engineers:
v Mr.
v Birgitte Jensen: 04, 09
v Ezi cut: 05
v Josef Aarskov: 06, 08, 10, 12
v Steen Grøntved: 01, 03, 10
v Mastered at Real-time studio Njalsgade 21f (except for track 06 and 08 – mastered home by S.G.).
v Steen plays Ibanez, Fender guitars,
v Coverdesign: Andreas Viggo Larsen Photo: Lizette Kabre.
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