Spotlight: Andre LaFosse

Electric guitar sounds do not exist in a vacuum. Rock guitar tones were changed forever by Eric Clapton’s Bluesbreaker revelation. In Fusion, Larry Carlton and Robben Ford had a huge impact. Terje Rypdal provided inspiration for a generation of Scandinavian players (and a few Americans). More recently Bill Frisell has influenced the sound of some jazz guitarists. Few guitarists,  though, have mined the sonic aspect of late Jeff Beck; Phil Brown comes to mind, and now Andre LaFosse. While Brown has taken off from Beck’s whammy bar manipulation madness to forge his own sound, LaFosse’s current dual releases reference El Becko’s more melodic side (The Hard Bargain) and synth integration (Do The Math) while maintaining a musical voice that is distinctively LaFosse.

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