There seems to be no end to the list of virtuoso guitarists from all around the world. In the eighties you had the students of the grand master Mike Varney of course. That was quite manageable. In the years that followed from all corners of our globe came a bunch of guys who could do everything on six strings. But virtuosity is of course an ambiguous term. There are many guitarists who break speed records, who play chords that cannot be played normally and who can do all sorts of fun tricks on their guitar, but who do not know how to charm the listener. Many guitarists just play a whole bunch of notes, cannot compose a decent song and last but not least, they completely lack emotion. This concludes my introduction to the third CD of guitarist Guido Campiglio, a six-string wizard from Italy. Obviously inspired by the shredders from the eighties, with ‘Rumble In The Jungle’ he releases a quiet good album.
Fortunately Campiglio is not a guitarist who just wants to be fast. He temporizes on several occasions. Thus opener ‘C.D.T. Symphony ' is just a pretty relaxing composition in which we immediately learn that Guido knows his way on the guitar. The fact that Yngwie Malmsteen has been a great source of inspiration is evident in tracks like ‘Rumble In The Jungle’ and ‘Butterfly Op.No.1 Suite’, tracks in which we hear the necessary classical elements. Difference with Malmsteen is that Campiglio also added some electronics in his music. In both ‘Dhalsim' and 'Drakkar ' he added some Eastern melodies (and jazzy tunes!) to ensure that you will not get bored when listening to this CD. The other material is quite a lot of the same. It is not exciting enough to charm an entire album. My personal favorite track is ‘Skin’, the most relaxed song on the album.
Tracklist:1 C.D.T. Symphony 4:24
2 Rumble In The Jungle 4:14
3 Butterfly Suite Op. No. 1 6:37
4 Resurrection 1:57
5 Skin 3:40
6 Tomahawk (Dance Of War) 4:08
7 Secret Garden 3:20
8 Dhalsim 4:01
9 Drakkar 3:30
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