If you've enjoyed my videos here, do check out my first all-instrumental, mega-indulgent, monster SHRED GUITAR album, now available in high quality digital downloads on Bandcamp.com!
The URL is sheervelocity.bandcamp.com. you can stream the whole thing there; if you like it, please buy it!
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Promo clip for the first SHEER VELOCITY album, now on Bandcamp!
1.EADGBE 00:34
2.Marching to Mars 02:53
3.Please Welcome Back to the Program... 03:34
4.Beautiful Brutality 03:44
5.National Coffee Day 02:38
6.Cut To Ribbons 02:22
7.Rumours 02:41
8.Susan's Arpeggiated Skull Fragments 03:33
9.Seven Autumn Hours 03:04
10.Slanting Sun 03:54
11.Winfred 03:08
12.Closing On Four 04:38
13.Snowpants Fantasy 02:10
14.Return of the Locusts 03:21
15.Helen Got Bored 02:24
16.The Acolytes 03:12
17.We Killed Raj 02:32
18.Rust 02:53
19.Charlie Drowns 03:26
20.Torch It @155 03:06
21.New Age NASA Porn 02:47
22.The Fast 03:03
23.Headless Woman 02:45
24.Van Out of Control 01:49
25.Shower Porn Massacre 02:47
26.Dating In the Dark 03:41
27.Cold That Kills 04:43
All-instrumental, guitar-centric extravaganza that veers unsettlingly between exotic beauty and nightmare soundscapes. Daredevil fretboard virtuosity is offset by unpredictable, bizarre and often linear arrangements and a whole world of textures & moods.
"A precision-fingered assemblage of daredevil works...its exotic geometries will be impressed in the fertile fields of your musical mind" - FRACTAL AUDIO
"Like early Steve Vai with Rob Zombie producing. Really clever compositions and soundscapes...the best guitar album I've heard in years!" - ANDY WOOD, Down From Up
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released 17 June 2010
When Andee Blacksugar is not busy helming his "highly destructive dance-rock" outfit Black Sugar Transmission, touring the world with Acey Slade and the Dark Party or tending to his hair, he records stacks and stacks of stream-of-consciousness instrumentals like those featured on this, his first official instrumental release.
The purpose is to explore concepts on the guitar and stretch the limits of his instrumental abilities, but Sheer Velocity is also a creative palette-cleansing, which drains off the more bizarre and indulgent musical notions that rattle around in this songwriter's head.
Each piece is conceived, written, recorded and mixed in one sitting. During particularly prolific periods, as many as two or three of these are finished in a day's time. An avid pop music fanatic who writes catchy electro-rock songs by day, Andee uses these sessions to exorcise the darker, more warped and decidedly anti-pop tendencies of his musical persona. Oh, and to shred gratuitously on his Stratocaster. He played and programmed all of the parts you hear, and records exclusively in his Brooklyn apartment under the influence of copious amounts of hubris.
Generally bored by most instrumental guitar music, Andee is nonetheless quite taken by the work of Jeff Beck and Marty Friedman, among a few others.
Andee has collaborated with artists as diverse as Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Dug Pinnick and Jerry Gaskill (King's X), Boy George and Scissor Sisters. And he loves talking about himself in the third person
G minor trade-off guitar jam with backing track
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