Several News

Hey Folks... there are so many things going on my life which I don’t even how to start talking about then. I’ll try to reduce some cool ones... In June , Young Guitar – Japan gave the opportunity to do an interview and photo session together with George Lynch. In some previous post I wrote about him. When I was a teenager I used to study his playing a lot in order to emulate him and finally we did this interview as well as we played together at GIT Hollywood. What a pity the chat is written in japanese, because I don’t remember what we talked about in that day anymore, but it was a fun meeting. In the article there are some awesome pictures we took at a studio in january located near to a “Skid Row” in Hollywood.

The tour with Angra and Nightwish in Japan built a huge respesct between the bands. Edu invited Empu to record the guitars for the Almah’s cd and last year it was Tarja’s turn to invite to record the acoustic guitar os her debut, “My Winter Storm”.

For me it was a great experience because, different if compared to the other ones with electric guitar and improvised solos, she asked me to bring a little of Angra’s sonority with nylon acoustic guitar and classical excerpts.
The result got a great response and I was invited to play with her on the concerts. Besides of her being a great Singer, the band features awesome musicians such as my friend Mike Terrana, Doug Wimbish (Living Colour) , Max Lilja (Apocalíptica) and Maria Ilmoniemi.

Now we are in the middle of brazilian the tour. Yesterday we did SP and I have just gotten out from the Curitiba’s concert. We went to México and Columbia. After I am going to talk about the details and to post some photos. We have already been through touching moment like the City of Mexico concert or the airplane’s turbine getting some problems in the middle of the flight.... many stories for many posts...

By the way, On the next Guitar Player, I am going to do the premier of “Blog of Kiko” on the column sessions and I will mention the details of this tour as well as technique and professional tips.

Check out this interview for an american site of guitar.http://www.guitar9.com/interview127.html

You also can check out an interview for MTV Brazil website:
http://mtv.uol.com.br/noticias08/node/94756

Another good news! Ana australian radio voted Universo Inverso for the top 10 Latin fusion álbums of the year. Check it out: http://fiestajazz.com/CDReview.html

Before I forget.... my new instructional vídeos are avaliable. Who is interested on buying them send an e-mail to roberto@kikoloureiro.com.br or look for it in any music shop...

Kiitos!

KL

Diversas notícias

Aí galera.. São tantas coisas rolando ao mesmo tempo, que não sei nem por onde começar.
Vou tentar resumir algumas legais...

Em Junho a Young Guitar- Japão me deu o privilégio de fazer uma entrevista e sessão de fotos com o George Lynch.Em algum post antigo aqui do Blog escrevi sobre ele. Na minha adolescência ficava horas e horas tentando tocar próximo ao seu estilo diferenciado e finalmente fizemos esta entrevista e tocamos juntos em maio no GIT Hollywood.
Pena que está em Japonês a conversa, pois eu também não lembro mais o que falamos, mas foi um encontro muito divertido. Ilustram a revista ótimas fotos que fizemos em um estúdio no mês de janeiro em alguma “quebrada” de Hollywood. A Tour do Angra no Japão com o Nightwish estreitou um respeito mútuo dentre as bandas.O Edu convidou o Empu para gravar as guitarras no cd do Almah e ano passado foi a vez da Tarja me convidar para gravar violões em seu álbum de estréia, “My Winter Storm”Para mim foi um participação feliz porque, diferentemente de outras, com guitarra e solos improvisados, ela pediu que eu trouxesse um pouco da sonoridade do Angra com violões de nylon e passagens mais clássicas.O resultado agradou e assim fui convidado para tocar com ela nos shows. Além dela ser uma ótima cantora, a banda conta com músicos fenomenais como o amigo Mike Terrana , Doug Wimbish ( Living Colour ), Max Lilja( Apocalíptica) e Maria Ilmoniemi.
Estamos agora em meio a tour do Brasil. Ontem fizemos SP e acabei de sair do show de Curitiba. Passamos pelo México e Colômbia também. Depois vou contar em mais detalhes e colocar umas fotos.
Já passamos por momentos emocionantes como o show da Cidade do México ou a turbina do avião parando em pleno vôo... muitas histórias para vários posts...

Alías, na próxima revista Guitar Player vou estrear o "Blog do Kiko" na sessão de colunas e contarei detalhes desta tour assim como dicas técnicas e profissionais.


Quem quiser conferir uma entrevista que dei para um site americano de guitarra.

http://www.guitar9.com/interview127.html

Ainda mais....
Entrevista para o site da MTV Brasil

http://mtv.uol.com.br/noticias08/node/94756


Mais uma boa!
Uma Radio Australiana votou o Universo Inverso entre os 10 melhores discos de Latin Fusion do ano. Confiram:
http://fiestajazz.com/CDReview.html


Por último antes que eu me esqueça...
Minhas novas vídeo-aulas já estão à venda.
Quem se interessar é só mandar o um email para o
roberto@kikoloureiro.com.br ou procurar em qualquer loja de instrumentos musicais...

Kiitos!

KL

Interview with Joe Satriani

To be sponsored by the best strings company brings me a lot of great moments. First of all the high quality of the product, the friends I got through the years and also for different and unusual moment like the one I am going to talk about on this post.

Musical-Express, Dealer for D’addario set up a date between the two endorsees of the brand.

The idea was about creating a chat between Satriani and me, to talk about the strings and other subjects, with no script, free to go where my curiosity could take me.

Of course this opportunity was unique for me, because I always respect and I’ll always respect who influenced me. I remember as it was today, twenty years ago, myself trying to understand how it was possible to get those tones wich Satch easily got on “Surfing with the Alien”.

At São Paulo’s aftenoon concert, we had the opportunity to talk to Joe where I could decipher some of my curiosities .I think it turned out to be pretty cool.

Satriani talked about a lot of interesting subjects.

The strange thing is that he mentioned that he doesn’t think guitar is comfortable, talked about his will of having signature strings, showed us his philosophic side about death, talked about his sources of his drawer side, besides other things in just some minutes.
Have fun...

Link:

http://www.musical-express.com.br

PS: Even having a huge respect for one of my “musical fathers”, let’s admit that the two person on the picture look like Kiko and Chaves (Mexican series, well-known in Brazil)... It’s just missing my colorful hat...



Hugs from Mexico.
KIKO