The New EP By TKG
To Be Released Worldwide
On March 4TH, 2015
Courtesy of TKG
Review By Adriana Rubio
TKG is Guitar Virtuoso Theodore
Kalantzakos Group, a brothers’ trio metal-fusion-jazz band from Athens,
Greece. Theodore and his TKG band have played a vast number of
venues across Europe since 2007 to the present days.
In a recent interview with Theodore, he openly gave us some interesting
clues on TKG upcoming EP “Rise
From The Ground”.
“TKG new EP counts with 3
new compositions with ambient textures and ethnic/world elements as I made an
extended use of fretless guitar in these recordings. Fretless guitar is a great
instrument for making world/ethnic music. It tends to become my main
instrument”.
For readers not yet familiar with fretless guitars, here is a brief explanation to get the essentials
of what it is about so you can then appreciate even more the guitar playing
style, sound and technique of Theodore
Kalantzakos.
The beauty of playing a fretless guitar is the range of sounds the guitarist can create
during the composition process. This is highly linked to freedom, the freedom
of creating sounds outside the Western music scale since frets are not there
spacing strings.
The freedom a fretless
guitar provides is also useful for composers who are particularly attracted
to play the exotic scales as well as ethnic-world sounds that are not the same when
trying to reproduce them on a fretted guitar.
Playing a fretless
guitar requires real practice to truly reach the goal of producing the fretless sound while playing. The guitarist’s fingers perform
fluidly “like” sliding the precious notes to please the listener’s ears with
the “unique” warm sound.
“Rise
From The Ground” transports the listener to a
scenario where the music sounds like a warm invitation to fly.
“Our desires are the gravity in our dreams. They look
like ropes which hold a hot air balloon. Humans are born with their feet on
earth and their hearts facing the sky. We wish we could fly, like planes over
the storms of life. Cut your will and rise from the ground…”
Track Listing:
1. Rise from the Ground
2. Night's First Silence
3. Hot Air Balloon
Bonus Track
4. No Shortcuts (Electro Swing version, based on Antonio Machado’s poetry lines, "Wanderer there is not road, the road is made by walking").
For a pre-listen and to pre-order “Rise From The Ground”, please follow
the link below to the band’s official store:
For further info on TKG upcoming tour dates, news
releases, interviews and more please feel free to visit the band’s official
website at:
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REVERBNATION:
Note:
Famous Fretless Guitar Players are Steve Vai, Guthrie Govan, Pat Metheny
and Adrian Belew amongst some
others. Frank Zappa played fretless
guitars in the early and mid 70s. So congratulations Guitarist Theodore Kalantzakos on your instrument choice!
“RISE FROM THE GROUND”
The EP By
TKG
Outstanding guitar playing!
Moving!
Epic!
To read the entire interview
with Guitar Virtuoso Theodore
Kalantzakos, please follow the link below:
