SINGLE PREMIERE – OUTBACK STORM
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This December, Australia will discover why the rest of the world is wild for the art of fingerstyle guitar. Using ground-breaking techniques and a depth of composition unheard of, Queensland guitarist, Van Larkins is pairing up with Italian virtuoso, Andrea Valeri for a limited run of shows sure to astonish the East Coast.
Held in high esteem at home and abroad, Van Larkins is celebrating the Fingerstyle Concert Series with the release of ‘Outback Storm’, an iconically Antipodean song from his forthcoming album, Cinder Moon.
“I wanted to create something uniquely Australian, so I imagined a tropical storm emerging over the red plains of Australia…wild and unforgiving,” said Van Larkins.
Defying the eye when playing his energetic melodies, harmonies, percussion and bass with just 6 strings and a chunk of the finest carved wood, Van Larkins doesn’t sing. He doesn’t play drums. And there’s no loop pedal. After all, why do any of that when he can make his acoustic guitar do it all?
Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, a 25 year old guitar prodigy, Valeri, is very much the talk of the guitar world with his ever-evolving, experimental fingerstyle guitar, making this duo a match made in musical heaven, and a must-see this Summer.
FINGERSTYLE GUITAR CONCERT SERIES TOUR DATES
03-04/12: Shadowfax Winery, Werribee
03/12: Paris Cat, Melbourne Buy Tix
05/12: Smiths Alternative, Canberra
07/12: Stag and Hunter, Newcastle
08/12: The Brass Monkey, Cronulla
11/12: Hotel Blue, Katoomba Buy Tix
15/12: Dust Temple, Gold Coast
16/12: Studio 188, Ipswich Buy Tix
17/12: Bison Bar, Nambour Buy Tix
18/12: The Milk Factory, Brisbane Buy Tix
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