Cal Guitar Trio

California Guitar Trio
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With a whirlwind of instrumental styles fusing classical, rock, blues, jazz, world music, progressive, as well as the quintessential California musical genre surf music, the California Guitar Trio's stunning virtuosity and sly sense of humor have earned them an enthusiastic following and wide notoriety, with significant crossover in the progressive, acoustic and classical music scenes.

To coincide with a rigorous tour and festival schedule for 2008, the California Guitar Trio releases the highly anticipated Echoes, their first release since 2004’s Whitewater.

Echoes brings to CD some of the Trio’s most popular arrangements of classical to pop classics featured in their live performances. It includes the Trio’s wildly popular version of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” as well as their take on the classic Pink Floyd tune “Echoes” and the rock classic, “Freebird.” Echoes also features unique CGT arrangements of Beethoven’s “Pastorale”, a classical fan favorite, as well as a more modern classic, ‘Tubular Bells.”

The recording highlights the Trio’s technical wizardry and breathtaking fusion of musical styles, as well as their amazing ability to arrange beautiful versions of both known and original pieces. Joining the trio for the recording are special guests Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Tony Levin and James Masefield.

Paul Richards of Salt Lake City, Utah, Bert Lams of Brussels, Belgium, and Hideyo Moriya of Tokyo first met in England at one of Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft Courses in 1987. After completing several of these intensive courses, the three toured worldwide with Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists. Wanting to continue working together after the League had run its course, Bert, Paul and Hideyo convened in Los Angeles and founded The California Guitar Trio in 1991, honing their intricate original compositions, surf covers, and classical re-workings.

Since their inception in 1991, the Trio has released 13 CDs: seven studio CDs featuring original works from the CGT and a variety of classics such as Bach’s "Toccata and Fugue" and Beethoven's “5th Symphony.” Four live releases that show the trio at their best onstage, and a Christmas CD with familiar and not-so familiar Christmas music, which continues to receive rave reviews.

The Trio is happy to be “back home” with Inner Knot to continue in the pattern of success with the release of their previous best sellers “Pathways” and “Rocks the West”.

For further information please contact:

Lori Hehr

PR4MUSIC.com

TEL: 360-325-6044

EMAIL: LHPR@runbox.com