luxigo

Biography

Played the flute from 4 to 10 (reading music sheets), then started accoustic guitar by myself at 11 or 12 years old. Chords grids and songs for 4 or 5 years

Switched to electric guitar at 15 and playing rythmic/solo with friends at 16. In 1986 synths were there for the chords. Started playing some bass too.

Stopped playing chords and covers to learn playing by ear (strong rejection reaction to music sheets and chord grids).

The keyboards I knew all gone techno so I ended playing over CD tracks for years.

Then with a friend trumpetist/keyboard for 10 years "in the ether" (without rythm section and with fuzzy breaks).

Some small scenes (jam sessions with people from many origins), building simple grooves and adding phrases with guitar or bass by ear.

Almost stopped for three years then in 2013 far from home I bought a cheap but great Martin electro-accoustic folk guitar to recover and start learning to mix chords and phrases.

Turning around and mixing blues-soul-jazz-rock-pop-afro-hindu influenced grooves and phrases.

I love Morroco/Mali/African ternary rythms and the sound of the 2nd pentatonic (same pattern as minor penta but from the fifth)

I do not like pre-electric jazz music so much. On the soul/jazz side I love the Fender Rhodes years.

Influenced by Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Genesis, AC/DC, Van Halen, Mark Knopfler, Bob Marley, Saga, Manfred Mann, Marillion, Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Steve Hillage, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Oumou Sangare, Ali Farka Touré, Boubakar Traoré, Lionel Loueke, Meddy Gerville, Chick Corea, Miles Davis (electric), Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, Debashish Bhattacharya, Trilok Gurtu, Nikhil Banerjee, Zakir Hussain, Fela Kuti, Joe Henderson, Gil Scott Heron, Curtis Mayfield, Lonnie Liston Smith, Jack DeJohnette, Simon Phillips, Lenny White, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, The Crusaders, O'Donell Levy, Stanley Turrentine, Freddy Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Joe Farrell, Milt Jackson, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Stanley Clarke, Alphonse Mouzon, Jimmy Smith, Kevin Eubanks and so many more I cannot remember the name right now...

Most of the latter ones in the "Fender Rhodes years".

Instruments

I'm playing guitar, mostly electric, some electric bass (mostly in jams), for almost 45 years, not professionally: no partitions, for pleasure, by ear, emphasizing feeling (not a shredder).

Nowadays I am often too lazy to connect any cable, so I mostly just pick the Martin, she keeps perfectly in tune and I can start playing in 10 seconds.

If I had a dedicated place with a good tube amp a good wah and a plugged guitar on the tripod I would go electric much more :-)

Got a G&L S-500 2014 and a G&L ASAT classic Bluesboy 2013 (with Seymour Seth Lover in neck) both pleked and made in Fullerton, and a bunch of indonesian guitars with good pickups (Ibanez Super 58, DiMarzio Air Norton and Tone zone, G&L MFD, Squier Jazz bass made in Japan...)... plus the guitar of my life (Simon Pinder, EMG...)

recording devices

Presonus Studio 2/6 USB 192khz
Nux Pulse NSS-4

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