Artist description I'm a solo artist focusing mainly here on the realm of the acoustic guitar. When I'm not doing this I am a member of the prog metal band Strange Land.

Music Style Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar

Musical Influences Michael Hedges, Billy McLaughlin, Leo Brouwer, Richard Leo Johnson, Preston Reed

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Artist History I've been playing guitar since I was 13. I have a BA in guitar performance (jazz and classical). While I could have studied this acoustic style in school, I didn't think I was capable of it. It was after hearing Michael Hedges and seeing Billy McLaughlin play that I started to develop my own abilities in this style.

Group Members Just me

Instruments Guitar and occasional voice

Albums Book of Ashes, driving empty miles, October Dust

Press Reviews Sean Gill      October Dust    2003   With a degree in jazz and classical guitar, Sean Gill wanted to explore the guitar more and began to play two-hand touch-style guitar. His inspiration comes from Preston Reed and Michael Hedges. The aggression and energy of heavy metal and the rhythmic and melodic complexities of classical, jazz guitar and some new age guitar meet each other on his albums. He made “Book of Ashes' in 2000 and “Driving Empty Miles”in 2001. Now there is “October Dust”. The style and playing techniques are in the same tapping style like the first albums. “Arc” the first track on this album has a nice groovy rhythm and a nice melodic structure, it really swings. “Dust Rising” a very rhythmic piece too, with a repeating pattern in tapping techniques. “Clean Break” has some nice intimacy and bluesy bendings. On “In the Confined Space of a Peanut”, he begins tenderly soft with nice chord chances but than he switches to rhythmic tapping and ends again in warm-heartedness. “You Can't Get There from Here”, personally my favorite, as it has balance, rhythm and a good structure on a reflective melody line. “Through these Windows/Somewhere Else” has a nice melody with nice overtones and a good balance with the tapping techniques. Sean Gill has many abilities to play divers styles, on “October Dust” he captures this in 8 great written compositions, played with passion. Bridge Guitar Reviews. Henk te Veldhuis.

Location New Berlin, WI - USA

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