Rafal Konikowski: nol rocks

Rafal Konikowski says:

My name is Rafal Konikowski and I'm a guitarist, composer and an author of guitar workshops from Poland. Since 1998 I've been running a series of workshops and tests in a music magazine Guitar and Bass (Gitara I Bas). In 2000 Professional Music Press published my guitar workshop Electric Guitar for Two (Gitara Razy Dwa). Since 2002 my on-line guitar workshop May-school is available on www.mayones.com (with audio examples and soundtracks to practice) which is the website of the biggest Polish custom build guitars manufacturer. Since 2001 I've taken part in a series of concerts Guitar Top along with the most famous Polish guitarists. In 2003 I've played there with my heavy-metal band NOL (www.nol-metal.com) and in 2004 we've recorded an album. The same year the magazine Guitar-Bass-Drums organized a contest Guitar Top and I got the fifth place in Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Guitarist category. At the turn of July and August 2005 I organized a heavy-metal guitar workshop MetalWorkshop and started cooperation with a new music magazine entitled Top Guitar. MetalWorkshop was so popular that we organized the second edition in 2006. The same year a new website www.metalwarsztat.com was created to promote the ideas of MetalWorkshop and enable participants to keep in touch with the organizers. A series of MetalWarsztat workshops were published in Top Guitar magazine in 2006. Since October 2007 I'm an official Laney Amps endorser http://www.laney.co.uk/. In the meantime NOL had recorded an album entitled 9 which was released at the beginning of 2007. We're touring Poland regularly, playing our music as the main lineup or supporting well-known Polish Metal bands such as Hunter, Kat or TSA. Currently we're producing material for our 3rd album.

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