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For Toulouse Engelhardt, Perpendicular Worlds is the apogee of forty-five years spent mastering the acoustic guitar and "chewing some very mean pine," he told a recent interviewer. This is pulsating instrumental music that captures a different audio journey in the finger-style guitar genre. Engelhardt says his concept in creating the collection was "a mental collision of intersecting lines and themes: the horizontal-latitudinal frets intersecting the vertical-longitudinal strings in a perpendicular collision. The record is divided into two areas," he explains: "inner space, the horizontal; and outer space, the vertical."
The new album, which is now available for download through CD Baby, iTunes and other online outlets, is a tableau of thirteen songs, all performed on the acoustic twelve-string guitar, with the exception of two Spanish guitar works. There are nine Toulouse originals, two traditional spirituals, and a contemporary arrangement by English guitar great, the late Davy Graham. There's also a subtle little gem that Engelhardt cut live on the UCLA campus in 1978. Some of this material, due for a national CD release in June from Lost Grove Arts through MVD Distribution, will be performed by Toulouse at San Diego IndieFest on Saturday afternoon, March 27th, 2010, on the Craig Yerkes Acoustic Stage at 12:45 p.m.
Perpendicular Worlds was produced by TEA, the collaboration between producers Phil Bunch and Franck Balloffet. "Phil and Franck were meticulous in every detail, pushing me to the edge of my artistic and emotional limits in the studio," Engelhardt confesses. "Working with them was a huge challenge, but in the end the results speak for themselves!"
Not to be outdone, the producers respond, "It was refreshing to record Toulouse, playing live in the studio 'like ringin' a bell,' with no MIDI craziness and plug-in tomfoolery. He's got a unique vision and style which need no studio trickery to bring out. Toulouse's playing is genuine and true to the roots of the best blazing American acoustic guitarists."
Noted record producer Denny Bruce, formerly a Takoma Records co-owner, who also produced and managed Leo Kottke and John Fahey, has written the liner notes for Engelhardt's new compilation.
The new album, which is now available for download through CD Baby, iTunes and other online outlets, is a tableau of thirteen songs, all performed on the acoustic twelve-string guitar, with the exception of two Spanish guitar works. There are nine Toulouse originals, two traditional spirituals, and a contemporary arrangement by English guitar great, the late Davy Graham. There's also a subtle little gem that Engelhardt cut live on the UCLA campus in 1978. Some of this material, due for a national CD release in June from Lost Grove Arts through MVD Distribution, will be performed by Toulouse at San Diego IndieFest on Saturday afternoon, March 27th, 2010, on the Craig Yerkes Acoustic Stage at 12:45 p.m.
Perpendicular Worlds was produced by TEA, the collaboration between producers Phil Bunch and Franck Balloffet. "Phil and Franck were meticulous in every detail, pushing me to the edge of my artistic and emotional limits in the studio," Engelhardt confesses. "Working with them was a huge challenge, but in the end the results speak for themselves!"
Not to be outdone, the producers respond, "It was refreshing to record Toulouse, playing live in the studio 'like ringin' a bell,' with no MIDI craziness and plug-in tomfoolery. He's got a unique vision and style which need no studio trickery to bring out. Toulouse's playing is genuine and true to the roots of the best blazing American acoustic guitarists."
Noted record producer Denny Bruce, formerly a Takoma Records co-owner, who also produced and managed Leo Kottke and John Fahey, has written the liner notes for Engelhardt's new compilation.