Kiko Loureiro and His Inverted Universe of Music

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Boosweet Records) - "What is this?" The answer to this question which is always asked when I play the record at the renown New York City jazz bar, the 55 Bar, will soon be known in North America. Other parts of the world - France, Japan, South America, particularly Brazil - have already caught onto this exciting, powerful guitar voice which has wowed guitarists and musical civilians alike. Kiko Loureiro has excelled in the musical realms of rock, Brazilian metal and instrumental guitar-based music. He even has DVD's of guitar lessons and other musical instruction. And with his latest recording Universo Inverso, he is poised to break out in America and other places where his guitar virtuosity has yet to be known.

Musicians hanging out or setting up in this venerable jazz and blues establishment have commented on the skilled playing - melodically and harmonically ear-catching - and unique musical cross breeding on this record. Known for his guitar technique, it must be said that, like many a great musician (not to give this man, a mere human after all, the kiss of death by mentioning these names, but...) - Hendrix, Zappa, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan - chops are in service to strong emotional statements, and a cascading flow of spontaneous and carefully constructed music ideas, soulfully logical like a good Sunday morning Baptist preacher. This is the flow-through between this showcase of various musical styles in the early jazz rock style of the seventies, before the crass excesses of fusion befouled our musical waters.