Daniel Christopherson confidently breaks onto the scene with his comprehensive vision of guitar-centric, strictly instrumental rock, One Zillion Guitars. Christopherson deploys a coherent style of rock-oriented, advanced guitar that combines melodic themes with gutsy, well-phrased development that together project a cohesive musical vision that is immediately perceivable. He draws from an interesting base of widely varying rock influences, most obviously in some places U-2, though his playing far exceeds the instrumental intensity of that mainstream rock band. His style also encompasses the influences of many of the modern instrumental rock heros. But, Christopherson also exceeds the sum of the parts of his influences that he draws from to build his unique brand of rock instrumentalism that features savvy arrangements that constantly weave and evolve while providing a frame for Christopherson to demonstrate his sharp fretwork.

Christopherson's guitar style is somewhat unusual because of the widely varying influences that he draws. At one end of the spectrum, he pulls in the commercial rock stylisms and technique of U-2. And, at the other end of the spectrum, Christopherson integrates the advanced stylisms and technique of Joe Satriani. But, Christopherson is not limited to these two influences and instead pulls in a number of other influences to round out his comprehensive style. The resulting sound is a collage of accessible mainstream rock themes that are woven into complex arrangements that integrate a combination of straight-ahead mainstream and leading edge instrumental rock guitar techniques. But, the thread that binds all of this in a meaningful manner is Christopherson's clarity of musical vision that is always driving the diverse elements of his style and composition in unison. I especially enjoyed this combination in the manner it was applied to some musical themes based upon U-2 motifs because it resulted in an instrumental conceptualization of these themes that was far beyond the original themes and brought them to an entirely new level that seemed to bring to light the intended purpose of the original themes.

Daniel Christopherson demonstrates his unique musical perspective and philosophy on his instrumental rock release, One Zillion Guitars. The album strikes an interesting balancing point between accessible mainstream rock and advanced instrumental rock that should make it conducive to listeners of either audience. Fans of progressive rock guitar should check out this album that strives to lay down some well-conceived, complex compositions that incorporate a solid, coherent arsenal of guitar techniques.

~ Christopher Ruel ~ www.ChrisRuel.com ~ Chris@ChrisRuel.com ~ Chris Ruel's Monthly Spotlight

EER-MUSIC.com Editor's note: This enhanced CD also contains may extra MP3 files and educational material for the guitar player.

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