Sergio "SERJ" Buss: tritone to shred



News:
03-12-2007:
Serg Buss added a host of new tracks to his Myspace mp3 player: http://www.myspace.com/sergiobuss... if you like guitar you'll like these.


30-08-2007:
You instinctively know when a CD is going to be good...especially when it mentions guest players like Blues Saraceno, TJ Helmerich, Brett Garsed and Steve Blucher.
Sergio "SERJ" Buss has released this CD: Liquid Piece Of Me... available from CD Baby.



Serj says:
This record is my attempt to stay alive... stay alive as a creative person as well as a human being. For the past four years I've been developing this project and working very hard to come up with something original. I didn't want you to hear this record for the first time as if it’s a story that you’ve heard before. To be really honest, for a while I got bored of playing guitar. Everybody’s playing sounded the same, trying too hard to say, "Hey, I can play too!" Playing guitar became some sort of competition about who could play the fastest or the most difficult part. Yeah, that's when it got boring, because it wasn't about music anymore. So I put my guitar away for a while.

A couple months later I started hearing a voice inside my head. The voice was telling me to keep creating. At first I thought I was going nuts - maybe too much stress from work. But after a while it got really hard for me to deny that inner voice so I decided to give it a shot. As soon as I did, I had a vision: to write a screenplay and then create a soundtrack for it. Why not? I've always wanted to write music for a movie but I've never had the chance. Even if it’s a soundtrack for an imaginary movie, it's still a soundtrack! It counts, right?

So I spent a few months writing my own screenplay. The story has a very special meaning to me but I'll let you decide for yourself what it’s about. That is the beauty of instrumental music: since there are no lyrics, you have a blank canvas to fill with your own personal interpretation of the music. This is where the magic lies.

Even though you can listen to the music purely for pleasure, I’ve decided to give you a few hints about the story to get your imagination going. Seventeen images were created to represent each of the songs on this album. I recorded the voices for the five characters and even put some lines of the script in the enclosed booklet.

So there you have it: all the pieces of this weird puzzle are in your hands. Even if you put them together and they don't became the same story I intended , it will still be a totally new cool story. Created by you.

Playing guitar is fun again!



24-07-2007:
Sergio "SERJ" Buss has made sure you can get his music on line via iTines and CD baby. As I'm still a physical media man so here the link to CD Baby...disaster recovery etc...

25-05-2007:
Serj Buss releases a new CD "Liquid Piece of me"




06-04-2007:
Sergio "SERJ" Buss has added some new mp3 examples from his up coming CD on MySpace.

12-01-2007:
Sergio "SERJ" Buss is off to Aus...so I hope he fares better than the England cricket team! He'll be going to the Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney and will be around for weeks and will be performing live during his stay...send him a message to find out more!

Cheers
10-12-2006:
Happy Christmas to everyone from Serj Buss

Silent Night


08-11-2006:
Lots of updates from Serj, sorry for the delay in getting these out. You can join Serj on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sergiobuss



Sergio SERJ Buss also released, "The Incarcerated Scream" CD which is available from CDBaby and proprietary ITunes.

Also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/mrserjbuss

Here's just a sample of the tracks available:

Tritone


Prayer of a sinner


What's up


5th Gear solo


22-06-2005:
Item first published

Background:
Sergio "SERJ" Buss started playing guitar when he was 8 years old. He was self taught until the age of 15. He then started lessons with Adrianne Simioni from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Two years later he moved to Rio de Janeiro where he studied at Musiarte, graduating an moving to study at Escola Nacional de Musica.

In 1992 SERJ moved to Los Angeles to study at MI snd the Guitar Institute of Technology. He completed the course and went on to study at RIT (Recording Institute of Technology). He then started working for Steve Vai getting a job as an assistant engineer. He helped record "Alien Love Secrets" and "Fire Garden", before playing some guitar shows on the "Alien Love Secrets" Tour. SERJ has since moved back to Brazil where besides a solo career, he composes radio and TV commercials.

Check out his web site for some excellent web store and YouTube Video and if you are interested check out his full discography and podcasts

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