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Intense, Ripping Instrumental Guitar
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Rusty Cooley's two-song demo cassette amply demonstrates his love of highly technical, lightning fast guitar work, as he puts his Ibanez Universe 7-string guitar together with a Rocktron Intelifex and a Fender amp to generate an ultra-heavy sound shock. The first song "Dominion", features a harmonized hook, tight, metallic rhythmic work, and unpredictable single-note guitar fills. The second instrumental, "EBE", blazes with swept arpeggios, harmonized lines, and bee-in-a-bottle solo runs. Cooley's demo proves he's mastered the modern guitar hero idiom.
The Texas-based six-stringer has been playing guitar for the past fourteen years, and has been teaching young guitar hopefuls for the past ten years. Cooley has logged time in the Houston bands Dreamer, Alter Ego, Revolution and most recently, Dominion. Cooley has also produced "World Class Guitar Techniques", a half-hour guitar program for KTLJ (Channel 22) in Houston, and was selected as a finalist in the Jason Becker AIM Scholarship search.
Cooley's goals for the future include: obtaining a recording contract from a well-established label, recording an intense guitar instrumental CD, offering educational material such as instructional books and videos and gaining endorsements for musical products.
Contact Information
Rusty Cooley
77 Deerfoot Circle
The Woodlands, TX 77380
United States
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Mixing Luxurious Soundscapes With Rock/Blues Guitar
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LVX Nova is an ambient/electronic duo from Tampa, Florida, made up of guitarist Bobby DeVito and synthesist Mike Meengs. In contrast to other bands in this genre, LVX Nova blends groove and luxurious soundscapes together with full tilt rock/blues guitar soloing. LVX Nova, their brand-new self-titled debut, started off as a college thesis for guitarist DeVito, based on the progression of ambient/electronic music from its origins to the present. When DeVito teamed up with keyboardist Meengs (formerly with the Florida band Sonic Erotica), the project took a new turn and became its very own work of art. DeVito's contributions on guitar to LVX Nova hearken back to Edgar Froese's work with Tangerine Dream, and his solo style is reminiscent of early David Gilmour.
In the summer of 1996, the due pressed 1,500 CDs and began to promote their new record. DeVito, a former BMG employee, used the Internet to promote the release and built an incredible number of underground contacts along the way. When MIRAMAR signed the band in March of 1997 there was quite an impressive archive of underground press they had garnered on their own.
Since signing with MIRIMAR, the band has done remixes for a number of projects out of Europe and is currently working on a live performance to support the new release.
Contact Information
Miramar Productions
200 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
Untied States
Web site:
www.bobbydevito.com
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