Concert Review

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Hi y'all!

Last evening Joe Cavaleri and I made the trek down to 
the L.A. area to check out Andre LaFosse's mid-residency recital at Cal 
Arts.
And, to be sure, we left after an hour 
or so vvvvveeeerrrryyyy impressed. 

With a fairly modest rack setup, a red strat, and a Mesa 
Boogie he presented quite an enthralling stew of sounds. 
His thing seems to be a rather cinematic, textural, rockish, "artmusik" 
with
teeth (and the ocassional familiar "Tornish" and "Frippish" nod here and
there).

There was his fine playing of course, and a really "happening" guitar tone
(recent Torn/Fripp, with a smattering of Gilmour and Knoffler come to mind)
and some truly wicked sound designing and creative processing.

Those who have read Andre's many posts to this list know 
that he uses both the Oberheim EDP and the Lexicon Vortex 
for his loops and textures. And man... he uses both thouroughly and
creatively. (As a new Obie convert/owner I was definitely taking mental 
notes
on everything he did).

All of this was fed into a quadrophonic sound system that 
made everything sound way HUGE and all-enveloping.

While I am not sure if any of the material was the same as 
his recent(?) tape(?) submission to Guitar Player Magazine's Spotlight
Column, I am certain that we heard was indicative 
of why his demo of the month (in the December issue) was a standout.

Congratulations Andre, and thanks for a great concert.

Ted