While his band completes its next studio album, Soulfarm lead guitarist
C Lanzbom is revisiting his popular solo career with his third CD of virtuoso
guitar-based world instrumentals.
Meditations, on Desert Rock Records, taps deeper into the spiritual side that
rises from Soulfarm's Middle Eastern grooves and transports the listener to
places rarely visited through the band's exotic country rock. Drawing primarily
from Americana-style acoustic folk to Renaissance to new age jazz, Meditations embarks on a timeless cultural journey through his delicately intricate guitar excursions.
Lanzbom also gets the chance to work with another group of musicians just as
incredible as his bandmates in Soulfarm. He's joined on Meditations by Darren
Solomon (Ray Charles, Barry Manilow) on acoustic and electric bass,
Park Stickney on stringed harp, periodic Soulfarm special guest Miri Ben-An
on violin and Darius Kaufman (Sinead O'Connor) on flute. Soul-farm drummer
Mark Ambrosino even drops by to add an occasional flourish on the snare.
Steven Miller (Medeski, Martin & Wood) engineered Meditations, which was
produced by Lanzbom.
Lanzbom utilized a basic guitar-harp-acoustic bass trio to record half of the
tracks, and expanded the unit with violin and flute on the rest of the album.
Throughout Lanzbom switches between five different guitar types to achieve his
evocative tonality and singular harmonics. On 'Ode Yishoma," he was even able
to replicate an entire string section with his Ham mertone guitar technique. |
