Pontus Gunve’s “Felix” Live Video Released

NEW YORK - Nov. 27, 2013 - PRLog -- Pontus H. W. Gunve is planning to feature four live videos. The first of those (“Kraken & Cavalry of Camels.”) has been out for about a week. The second, “Felix,” is also out now. All four songs are included on the new live EP from Gunve, Live in New York.

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 an upcoming review at Music Street Journal, Jason Hillenburg said, “This recalls King Crimson's work from the mid 1990's with its dissonant repetition, relentless attack, and mastery of dynamics. The guitar playing is particularly brilliant as it sounds practically hysterical, threatening to veer into white noise at any moment, but ultimately harnessing the edgy mood to superb artistic effect. The dramatic, tight drumming ratchets up the intensity further. While this is instrumental music, the composition conveys its mood with such power and clarity that the listener cannot help responding to the music.” Don’t take his word for it, though, check it out at youtube.com/watch?v=2nETXFp09fA.

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