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Acoustic Music Record's catalogue is devoted almost exclusively to acoustic guitar music. Their roster of insanely gifted acoustic guitar players includes: Duck Baker, Woody Mann, Stefan Grossman, Tim Sparks, Pierre Bensusan and Bob Brozman. To mention just a few. Founded 12 years ago by the German virtuoso guitarist Peter Finger, Acoustic Music Records is going from strength to strength. At the start the label was laughed at. Acoustic guitar music! They were told there couldn't possibly be a market for such a specialist musical area. How wrong the critics were.

Today Acoustic Music Records is a melting pot of seriously hot acoustic guitar music, a veritable crucible of fingerstyle excellence where all musical styles are catered for including: blues, jazz, classical, world music and hard to define cross-overs. Of course when presented with such a cornucopia of mind-boggling talent, the question is where do you start? Which players do you get into? Well, an excellent place to start is with their Acoustic Guitar Highlights series. These taster CD's feature a collection of tracks from different guitarists and are a great way of deciding which players you'd like to hear more of. And even better, they only cost around $5. A bargain if ever there was one.

The nice thing about Acoustic Music Records is that while they are dedicated to showcasing the work of some of the world's very finest acoustic guitarists, they have also thought of us mere mortals. They produce tuition material, instructional books and CD's and video workshops. In fact, Acoustic Music Records are publishing Rick Payne's AGW Fingerstyle Blues method (Book + CD) in Autumn 2004.

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Mp3 previews available on AMR site. It's best to go to the artist section and select someone you're interested in and there will generally be a very good selection of mp3's to listen to.

	BRITTA MEDEIROS/MICHAEL SAGMEISTER CD: "The way we feel about it" This is Sagmeister's new project with German/Mexican vocalist, Britta Medeiros, whose smoky, subtle voice is worth the entry fee alone. Add Sagmeister's sensitive and imaginative nylon string acoustic guitar accompaniments and you have a duo straight out of the top drawer. "The Way We Feel About It" is a collection of standards, bossa novas and pop songs, including such monsters as "Fields of Gold", "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" and "Both Sides Now". >>More details at Acoustic Music records
	VARIOUS ARTISTS CD:"Reborn on acoustic guitar" This is a new series from Acoustic Music Records billed as "virtuoso acoustic guitar performances of classic pop songs" by artists as varied as Madonna, Jimi Hendrix, Police, Kraftwerk and Tori Amos. This is a CD to die for. Jacques Stotzem's rendition of "Purple Haze" had the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. You wouldn't have thought it possible to do justice to such a tune on an acoustic guitar, but Stotzem's arrangement really does rock. Other guitarists featured include Neil Stacey, Michael Sagmeister and Andrea Benzoni. >>More details at Acoustic Music records
	JOSCHO STEPHAN CD: "Django Forever" Ever since his debut CD "Swinging Strings", Joshcho Stephan, gypsy jazz guitarist supreme, has embarked on a meteoric career. His second CD "Swing News" was also greeted with wild enthusiasm by both press and public. Those who have experienced a concert by this young man with his vigorously swinging back-up combo know the ingredients of his style: the powerful anchor in the Django tradition, technical brilliance, the wild and yet refined swing, harmonic diversity, supple phrasing etc. Joscho has long outgrown the mold of the erstwhile wunderkind, and with "Django Forever", he now reveals himself as a mature, broadly talented guitarist in the gypsy tradition. >>More details at Acoustic Music records
	GITARISSIMA CD: "Melange" Gitarrissima consists of five young female guitarists who met in Vienna. The quintet plays arrangements for a highly interesting instrumentation of three concert, one octave and one bass guitar and produces a sound with a special richness of color and a seldom heard orchestral density. “Gitarrissima” stands for woven miniatures and for string dances full of grace, playfulness and rhythmic concentration. Melange offers a broad repertoire, with works by Bach, Rossini, Franz Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Vittorio Monti and Astor Piazzolla. The arrangements of concertos, songs and piano works are convincing thanks to the balance of the voices and their airy transparency, the unusual instrumentation offers up entirely new musical accents. >>More details at Acoustic Music records
	PETER FINGER CD: "Blue Moon" "Few can replace an entire orchestra with an acoustic guitar alone as Peter Finger does", was the verdict of the highly critical trade magazine, "Audio". "Blue Moon" is a serious treat for fingerstyle fans, combining the most diverse musical ideas, harmonic concepts and flowing melodies in a musically sensuous and satisfying whole. When Peter starts up one of his awesome acoustic power riffs, the effect is simply electrifying. How can he play so fast and maintain such perfect musical coherence and integrity? But Peter's tone and touch also dazzle when he is playing slowly. Classical, folk, jazz, "Blue Moon" paints well nigh perfect tone poems from a rich and widely diverse palette of guitar colours. Quite simply, Peter Finger exemplifies the art of contemporary fingerstyle. >>More details at Acoustic Music records
	FRANCO MORONE CD:"The First Collection" It's great to see this reissue of one of Franco Morone's first CD's by Acoustic Music Records. Morone has long been regarded as occupying a place in the first rank of fingerstyle guitarists. "Franco Morone has one of the most individual sounds amongst all contemporary fingerstyle guitarists," said no less an authority than the prestigious US guitar mag, "Acoustic Guitar". His intonation is perfect, his technique terrific, but, as with all great musicians, this is firmly placed at the disposal of the music. Morone's speciality is traditional and modern Mediterranean styles, laced with delicious celtic and bluesy flavours. From the rip- roaring opener "Bluesy Cap" to the closing "Sliding Road Blues", listening to "The First Collection" is quite simply one of the greatest of pleasures. >>More details at Acoustic Music records

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