Pontus Gunve to Release Live EP

NEW YORK - Nov. 6, 2013 - PRLog -- Coming after Pontus H. W. Gunve’s most recent album, the critically acclaimed The Observer, the new EP (simply entitled “Live in New York”) includes a number of live Gunve songs.  Two of the pieces on the EP “Felix” and “El Pancho’s Last Journey” are newly written and previously unreleased,  while the other two are from The Observer (2013) and Movements (2008). Three of the tracks (“Felix,” “Kraken & Cavalry of Camels” and “El Pancho’s Last Journey”) come from two different 2013 performances. The fourth piece, “Movement 2” is from a 2011 show.

NYC-based guitarist, composer and technologist Pontus Gunve’s music embraces the theory that music is a multi-dimensional experience and an adventure in wordless storytelling that fully absorbs the audience. Flowing through time and space, the sonic textures he creates evoke the ethereal landscapes of other-worldly multi-media artists like Jean Michel Jarre and Boards of Canada while still clearly inspired by the thick, dark compositional textures of legendary heavy metal bands like Megadeth.

Gunve was first fully gripped by his passion for music when he saw Jean Michel Jarre’s Rendezvous Houston: A City in Concert on television as a child growing up in Sweden. Blown away by Jarre’s all-encompassing high-tech stage show and the endless layers of his album Oxygene, Gunve began to explore the capabilities of computers to create different sounds and textures. His fascination with rock music led him to electric guitar, which he began to study voraciously, simultaneously imagining ways to expand its boundaries. At the same time, he experimented with sequencing and learned how to build computer and synthesizer modules that could be used practically during performances and on recordings.

In a review at Music Emissions (musicemissions.com), NLathy said, “Gunve drives home his point of view with a searing guitar and plenty of hooks.” That review said this about “El Pancho’s Last Journey,” “There's ample passion on "El Panchos Last Journey." The song reveals shades of John McLaughlin. There's plenty of effort here to dazzle the listener rather than just displaying good musicianship.” That reviewer described one of the high points of the set this way, “Still the other three cuts have plenty of highlights. The most profound and memorable moments come on "Kraken & Cavalary of Camels." The intro sizzles and draws me in. It keeps my attention level high even when things start to drag a little bit…But the song gains needed momentum about half way through the 8:05 excursion. There's a searing guitar which provides plenty of fascination.”

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