![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guarna, born in 1967 in Brooklyn and raised on Staten Island, grew up playing rock ’n roll and idolizing Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page. The Spirit Science sessions, produced by the guitarist, were captured by veteran engineer George Shalda at New York City’s Sear Sound. With Spirit Science, I wanted to evoke those primary, essential shapes – spirals, circles, squares – in my compositions.”ĭownBeat critic and guitar aficionado Bill Milkowski has called Guarna “an audacious chopmeister,” adding praise for his writing and arranging skills with tunes from the “kinetic” to the “evocative.” Highlights on Spirit Science include the burning opener “ The Trion Re” (guitar and sax intertwining melodies), the magically limpid “ Platonic Solids” (marked by guitar-synth sorcery) and the album-capping “Lullaby for Lena,” which departs from the album concept in a quiet, tuneful tribute to Guarna’s beloved rescue dog. Once you’re aware of it, you see those implications everywhere. It’s inspiring to see how science reveals the patterns and shapes in everyday life, the patterns behind everything we experience from nature to architecture to music. Exploring that changed my perspective on music, really. “ It’s where math and science meet with spirit and matter – ideas that humans have studied since the ancients, from Pythagoras to Da Vinci. The story Guarna spins on Spirit Science is that aforementioned fascination with “sacred geometry, those laws that drive everything in existence,” the guitarist explains. These top-flight musicians richly complement Guarna’s textured guitar work, which blends his characteristically glowing electric guitar tone with otherworldly guitar synth and light-as-air steel-string acoustic. Tom Guarna – a guitarist praised by DownBeat for the “emotion, tension, surprise and passion” in his music – has assembled yet another “dream team” of a band for Spirit Science, his second release for Destiny Records and his eighth overall. To realize a vision steeped in Pythagorean ideas of the science “sacred geometry,” the New York-based Guarna convened a group of venturesome, virtuoso peers: reed player Ben Wendel, keyboardist Aaron Parks, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Justin Faulkner. Spirit Science – Guarna’s eighth album and second release via Destiny Records, due out Septem– showcases the New York-based guitarist in nine flowing, melody-laced originals inspired by the science of sacred geometry. Spirit Science showcases the New York-based guitarist in nine flowing, melody-laced originals inspired by the science of sacred geometry, complemented by a “dream team” of a band. “Name any guitarist – Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, John Scofield – and the comparison falls short or fails entirely, because Tom Guarna is his own man.” - JazzTimes “…a guitarist of broad fluency and deep lyrical instinct… “ - Nate Chinen, WBGO’s “Take Five” Release date: 18 September 2020 via Destiny Records ![]()
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