Ny CD fra Per Kjetil Farstad

Fire av sporene er komponert av utgiveren selv, mens resten er musikk laget av et bredt spekter klassiske gitar-mestere: Jimmy Bryant, Hank Williams, Irving “Duke” Jordan, Isham Jones, Frank Churchill og Edgar Sampson – for å nevne noen.

- Som noen kanskje husker begynte jeg faktisk som dansemusiker og spilte swing-musikk, Shadows og liknende på 60-tallet, før det ble klassiske studier med gitar og lutt, forteller Per Kjetil Farstad.

- Og det er nok der hjertet ligger, men år om anna har jeg levert rytmiske innspillinger, slik som nå og holdt denne delen av meg vedlike og prøvd å utvikle meg. Den kombinasjonen tror jeg at ingen andre gjør ved UiA, sier han.

Med på innspillingen har Farstad fått god hjelp av andre musikere:

• Tor Einar Ribe spiller keyboard.
• Richard Farstad og Roar Farstad spiller henholdsvis bass og trommer.
• Arve Nilsen spiller trommer.
• Bernt Moen spiller keyboard.
• Dag Wolf og Arne Vigeland spiller begge pedal steel guitar.
• Frøydis Grorud spiller saksofon.
• Alf Emil Eik spiller trommer, synthesizer, el-gitar og bass.
• Kjell Marcussen spiller el-piano.

Se Per Kjetil Farstads nettside her!

CD-utgivelser fra Per Kjetil Farstad:

1987: Music From four Centuries
1991: Canaro
1996: Buitar Menu
1997: Quiet rain
1999: Galant Guitar (2CDs)
2003: Without Words
2005/06: Music Antique
2007: Intimacy
2011: Swing Pickin’ Guitar

Influert av Mel Travis og Chet Atkins

Selv sier Per Kjetil Farstad på coveret til den nye CD-en:

” We are all influenced by certain people, culture, religion, and so on during our lives and this is certainly true when it comes to musical styles. This CD represents some old guitar playing styles which I loved listening to in my early years, mainly from the late 1950s and 1960s.

Long before Chet Atkins made his entree onto the music scene, Mel Travis was touring the stages with his special thumb technique and swinging guitar playing. Both Travis and Atkins inspired me in the 1960s. The danish guitarst Jørgen Ingemann, the Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and of course Les Paul also had a great infl uence on me. And - when other guitar players from my hometown

listened to The Shadows, I preferred listening to The Ventures, who sounded “less polished” and was more fun to play.

Duane Eddy was hot in those days, and of course Arthur Smith, the father of the “Guitar Boogie” was a great inspiration. I was specially interested in what I prefer to call the swingstyle, represented by the playing of Django Reinhardt and Jimmy Bryant, along with the picking of Hank Garland, Harold Bradley, and Grady Martin.

There are so many true musicians and guitar players to be mentioned along my journey from the 1950s up to this day. In the later years I have listened to jazz-guitar players like Joe Pass, Paul Methney and fusion-guitarists like Lee Ritenour and Larry Carlton. Combined with years of playing and studying classical music, this huge mix of infl uences is somehow “present” on this CD. I really don’t know how or where, but it’s still there.”

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