"Unassuming Capriccio" by The Kinetic Guitars Quartet - 25 September 2014

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"Unassuming Capriccio" by The Kinetic Guitars Quartet - 25 September 2014.

The Players :

Doug Steigerwald
Mark Taylor
Lance Bedwell
Richard Trudeau
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Hello dear friends,

This new piece was initiated at the end of 2013. Since The Christmas Project has taken most of my time in 2014, it was hard (not to say impossible) to concentrate on anything else. Now that the Christmas Project is in its final stage of completion and that there’s still plenty of time left before the official release, I thought I should bring back The Kinetic Guitars Quartet on top of my priorities. So I did and here it is !

This was not an easy piece to learn and play to begin with… not an easy project “period” to be quite honest ! So, I just want to praise and congratulate my three fellow guitarists for their hard work in delivering their assigned parts as true professionals. These three guys wanted to carry on with the project even though they knew that there had been four successive withdrawn from it !

This is a guitar quartet piece, but it was initially meant to be performed by eight different guitarists (triple track recordings for each players) ! Since we became short of players and everything seemed to be falling apart at a certain point, I was prepared to resume the project on my own. Then, Mark suggested that he record another guitar part beside his… so I thought, yeah why not, this could work ! I did the same by recording the three other parts beside mine. By doing so we would have at least the initial amount of guitars that was planned to be featured in the piece. Four guitars would have done the job for sure, but double or triple tracking all parts makes it more dynamic I believe !

So Doug, Mark and Lance, I just want to say… I love you guys ! Many thanks to you boys for sticking with me and the project. You’re the most kind persons and wonderful musicians I had the chance to work with !

As for you dear public, I want to say on behalf of The Kinetic Guitars Quartet members and myself… a very warm and heartfelt “Thank You” for watching and listening.

And oh… just so that you know, this actual formation will be a permanent one from now on. There will be no more recruiting for all future Kinetic Guitars Projects.

Peace and love to all !

Richard