Album Notes: Personnel: Ernest "D'Gary" Randrianasolo (guitar), Pana Dourantonis (percussion).
Album Reviews: Option (5-6/93, p.99) - "...[MALAGASY GUITAR] is essential for anyone with even a remote interest in finger-picked acoustic guitar....The sum is both serene and earthy, naive and sophisticated, as if D'Gary had learned from a guitar master and then disappeared to that remote island to create a new language for the instrument..."
Advantages: insert opinion here Disadvantages: the long wait until volume 2
...Best Air Guitar Album In The World Ever
For all you cynics out there, air guitaring is a serious hobby that involves jumping around your room listening to great music and pretending to play the guitar.
It is a two-CD album and is well worth the price that you pay for it. £12.99 at CD-WOW.com
CD 1
1. Queen - Tie Your Mother Down - 4:00
This is a great start to a great album. It starts off with that very recognisable tune from 'We Will Rock You.' Then the guitar starts and then more guitar then the lyrics. This is a special air guitar edit as the guitar is played by Brian May (kind of remastered version); it is a timely reminder of how good Queen were.
9/10
2. Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water - 5:19
A great guitar intro (you will hear this a lot) has a steady beat that continues throughout the whole song. 50 seconds...
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Advantages: Lots of great Guitar songs Disadvantages: Not many (apart from status quo)
...Ok Welcome to this review on " the best air guitar album in the world " Vol.2.
Well I got this album for my Christmas in 2002 I think, after my dad got the first 1. I kept hinting every time we went shopping and on Christmas day I woke up to find it in my stocking.
This is a double disk CD by various artists comprised for air guitar rockers around the world. There are lots or artists old and new from Queen to alien ant farm. Brian Adams to Alice cooper, and so on.
I will go through the songs individually on each disk. But first, what's included.
Well there are 2 disks, one yellow and one pink. 44 songs in total so that's 44 air guitar moments to savour and enjoy over and over again. A leaflet with each song and the people behind the song. And A free Night of passion with…. The Air Britney !!!! Note. Passion not included.
Ok so...
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Advantages: Some electrifying passages where you can crank up the volume... Disadvantages: ...but nothing very memorable tune-wise.
...What an unimaginative title I thought. Calling a Mike Oldfield album "Guitars" is like calling a Bond film "Licence To Kill" - it tells you less than you already know. Then I got it: guitars and nothing but guitars. No drums, synths or vocals. No Tubular Bells even. Is that the idea?
Simple, but ambitious. Who else could even attempt this?
"Muse" opens the album, it is a beautiful, mellow, Spanish guitar melody. But is this to be another bland CD of Test Card music? (see my op. on Oldfield's "Voyager") Well the added urgency and edge of "Cochise" suggest not. This is serious, invigorating guitar playing. Truly electric.
The next track "Embers" is much more subdued though and "Summit Day" would not be out of place on his triumphant "Songs of Distant Earth" CD.
It's all good so far, but with no fixed mood.
Then the dynamism...
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