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MP3 Joe Slant - Assessing the View

Very powerful guitar-driven heavy prog-rock fusion, (with occasional vocals), interspersed with the gentle, bizarre, and intense.

15 MP3 Songs in this album (74:16) !
Related styles: Rock: Experimental Rock, Electronic: Acid Jazz, Featuring Guitar

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After much enthusiastic encouragement from fellow musicians (including a fellow guitarist whom had recently left a world-renowned, legendary heavy metal band), as well as non-musicians alike, one "Joe Slant" (real name: Joe Szilagy), decided it was high time to put out a first album! Included amongst the slightly metal-tinged fusion, are moments of peaceful balladry, world beat, strangeness, and a hint of Electronica. But the main thrust of his music is a type of blistering, guitar-infused passion, delivered mainly via a soulful, intense, no-nonsense, Strat, Tele or Les Paul through a hot, tube-driven Marshall amp.

The name "Joe Slant" came about from a band Joe played with called "The Majority" during Joe''s first rehearsal with that band. It seems that both the drummer, (Neil Peart) and bassist, (Wayne King) somehow came up with the name as a sort of abbreviation on Joe''s real last name (Szilagy), and/or as Joe recalls, at least, because one or the other was reminded of a former guitarist who they called Joe Slant because he stood on a portion of a room they practiced in that was warped, putting him in an uncomfortable position! No matter- the name stuck, and besides, it made more sense to use something easier to remember than the longer, more difficult to pronounce Hungarian last name.

Besides The Majority, Joe has played with several rock and progressive rock bands, and during the ''90s became interested in World Beat music, specifically of the various guitar-oriented African types. He played on at least seven CD/albums, including the very well-known song, (and album by the same name), "Sika Ye Mogya", by the legendary Ghanaian singer, Pat Thomas, with whom Joe toured the U.S. as well as a two and one half month tour of Europe.

Another African band, Nakupenda incorporated Joe''s heavier rock stylings and writing which helped to earn the band the highest rating in Toronto''s famous "Now" magazine reviews. A few years later, Joe played and recorded with the talented and unique Tarig Abubakar and the Afro-Nubians, better known simply as "The Afro-Nubians". Tarig''s music electrified audiences because of his unique blendings of various forms of exciting African music. The band made a much played two-song video for Bravo television as well as a video shown on the major music stations, a concert for Vision T.V. and received various awards, as well as high acclaim in major newspapers across Canada playing large festivals every year. The band disbanded when Tarig (the leader and lead vocalist) died tragically in a car crash en route to the airport after visiting his mother in his native Sudan. He was about to return to Canada to start rehearsals for the band''s first tour of the U.S.

With time away from the road, and having gained experience in music as different and diverse from each other as various forms of heavy progressive rock, (not to mention modern blues, early funk, soul, metal and so forth) to various forms of Worldbeat, Joe eventually settled into teaching guitar and bass, while blending and weaving the complex musical fabric he would use later on in his spare time.

Originally, this album was to be a collection of powerful rock fusion guitar-oriented music culled from recordings made mostly during 2003 with a couple from 2010, as well as four of the tunes having been completely redone during the summer of 2010, specifically for this album. Since then, however, three new songs from late summer of 2010 have been added as well as all of the original tracks having been reworked, and in some cases completely redone, plus the addition of a template of material from the late ''90s used as the basis of more new recordings, including a European suite in three parts. "Assessing The View", (as previously mentioned), was released because of much ongoing encouragement from many people, having heard early versions of some of the material on Joe''s Myspace page at https://www.tradebit.com

Now Joe Slant is particularly enthused about working on his second album, but he needed to release this first, in order to give himself the incentive to work on something even more intense and exciting!



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