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2 unusual facts about The Experimental Guitar Series Volume 1: The Guitar as Orchestra


The Experimental Guitar Series Volume 1: The Guitar as Orchestra

All ten compositions performed on a custom Fender Stratocaster and utilizing such technical elements as Roland guitar synthesizers, Korg guitar processors, and Roland delays (to name a handful of production components) could be categorized as "difficult listening music" (to use a term created by performance artist and Belew-contemporary Laurie Anderson).

The Experimental Guitar Series Volume 1: The Guitar as Orchestra (released in 1995) was originally intended to be the first in a series of Experimental Guitar albums created by Adrian Belew, mostly as a means of expressing the musical concepts that would otherwise not be released by conventional recording labels.



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