Guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, Session Musician, Sound Engineer and Music Producer Brighton based (UK)
With great pleasure I announce that Obsidian Key album “LOUD!” is finally available for download and to physical buy!
What a journey this album has been, really happy at the moment and hope you’ll enjoy listening to it as much as I loved making it!
You can download your copy (or listen to track snippets) from:
Happy listening and thank you for your support!
– Sonic
This is a very easy and effective guitar solo, it’s a mix of different guitar soloing styles from Malmsteen, to Petrucci, to Al Di Meola and a final touch of blues (maybe Hendrix???), it was good fun playing it and Obsidian Key’s fans loved to guess all the influences!
This is a snippet of a track for Obsidian Key Project, the full track is a 8:00 minutes Prog Metal track very rich of different elements from shredding to more classic Prog Rock, to great changes and groove, it’ll be available on Obsidian Key forthcoming album titled “LOUD!”. Enjoy!
Often while chatting with friends and students, questions about “what is exactly” or “what are fundamental characteristics” of Progressive Rock compositions comes up.
What I noticed is that many people think that the fundamental characteristics are just presence of Spare Time Signatures (or Odd Time Signatures) and a keyboard player who can play solos… Honestly I find this a wrong definition and also very reductive, so here is some (and I repeat SOME) of the “must have” in order to define a track Progressive Rock or Progressive Metal. With that said remember that music is ART, so it is CREATIVITY mostly and therefore rules are made to be followed and to be broken (when you’ve learned them really well and you became capable of mastering them!).
I am a studio session musician offering music session services locally here in Brighton and the UK, as well as world-wide.
For music sessions here in Brighton area and London I can travel easily and quickly or I can work from my studio.
For sessions world-wide I mostly work from my own studio and send my recordings via internet (via the usual suspects like Drop Box etc…). I can also travel, please contact me for more details.
My studio equipment supports all industry standards audio-formats as well as audio recording quality, AD/DA converters, complete set of industry standard mics, DAW and DSP, offering so best audio quality. I have also long-term experience using lots of audio plugins and sound-design effects and tools for all the instruments I play. I can generally accommodate most exigent music producers requirements.
1) Guitar sessions: acoustic, classical and electric
2) Bass guitar sessions: 6 strings and 5 strings
3) Drum sessions: Really high quality Roland vDrum TD-30 sounds for acoustic and electronic
4) Keyboard sessions: Synthesizers, electronic organs, piano
5) Cinematica sessions: special effects, sounds, movie soundtracks composition and recording
– Progressive Rock and Progressive Metal
– Rock, Rock-Blues, Blues
– Pop
– Hip Hop
– RnB
Click on each music genre for samples on this website.
I am also willing to collaborate with other artists all over the world and learn new forms of music because of my huge passion for music in general.
For more info please feel free to contact me.
Sonic V 