Alex Ehrsam: nu scab co-worker

News:
18-04-2008:
Alex Ehrsam is on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/alexehrsamguitarist

His new CD entitled Djaz_Dtox and is available via guitareuroshop and guitar9.

If you love rock fusion style guitar your sure to like this. "djaz_dtox" blends instrumental fusion ideas, jazz chordal structures & funky grooves.



Track Listing:
04:14 Scab Co-Worker
02:54 Snappy Response
05:13 Out U Go
04:11 Elevator Shaft
03:48 Standard Procedure
04:15 Fix
03:48 Cold Chill
04:55 Decoy Unseen
06:31 Malpractice

This is 1st tune from his album "djaz_dtox", This is the main theme, then to a solo improvisation and back to the theme. Enjoy.

Scab Co-worker - Alex Ehrsam


Impro A Dorian - Alex Ehrsam


Snappy Response (solo impro) - Alex Ehrsam


Snappy Response (Chords) - Alex Ehrsam


Background:
Alex Ehrsam is from Strasbourg, Alsace, France. He has been playing guitar for the last thirteen years. He grew up in a musical environment listening to a lot of jazz and rag-time, discovering Miles and Coltrane and their vision of music.

For the last 4 years, he's been trying to cut into basic guitar chops to create arpeggiated approaches, developing a jazz feel through a specific choice of notes and using a rock guitar sound. He's been using mixolydian, dorian, altered, blues modes snd a lot of chromatic tricks, through hybrid techniques combining legato, sweep and finger picking.

He has also worked on building a smooth nu-jazz ambience into his music. “Elevator Shaft” is one of the tracks dedicated to that style.

Influences include: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Eric Dolphy, Steve Coleman, Joshua Redman, Roy Hargrove, Greg Howe, Wayne Krantz, Alex Machacek, Vernon Reid, Sylvain Luc, Baden Powell, Mike Stern, Allan Holdsworth, Brett Garsed, Scott Henderson, Pierre-Jean Gaucher, John Scofield, Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Brad Mehldau, Chucho Valdés, Bugge Wesseltoft...