Hyperreal by Nickjitsu
Hyperreal is an exploration of the guitar in the 21st century.
Nickjitsu's debut album has influences as diverse as Return to Forever to Beethoven, by way of Dream Theatre, Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth, Weather Report and 8-bit video games.
The idea was to see what one musician could do with one guitar and a laptop. This is guitar as you've never heard it before!
Every instument (apart from bass) was played on guitar including, violins, drums, Highland bagpipes and seashores.
Nickjitsu uses the latest midi guitar technology to acheive this. The result is a mixture of straight guitar tunes and modern rock/fusion tone poems that marry melodic noodley guitar with a wide palette of compositional colours.
This collection of music is also audio proof that Nickjitsu is mad as a biscuit!
Tracklist
| 1. | Trigger Point | 6:30 |
| 2. | Witch Hunt | 5:47 |
| 3. | 25 | 4:09 |
| 4. | The Birth of Time | 5:49 |
| 5. | Po Face | 3:37 |
| 6. | Nickjitsu vs Godzilla | 8:50 |
| 7. | One Night | 5:05 |
| 8. | Stratistition | 3:57 |
| 9. | The Uncommon Chord | 2:18 |
| 10. | Dick's Dream of Electric Sheep | 9:26 |
| 11. | Uisge Tatha | 6:32 |
| 12. | Mad Studio Twister | 5:18 |
Credits
NIckjitsu-Everything
Richard 'Dicky' Kirchner for lending me his lovely Status bass
Recorded at Robertson Music
Thanks to Mark, Eddie and Brian at Robertson Music
