- MUSICIANS :
- Cyril Achard (guitar)
Franck Hermanny (bass)
Eric Lebailly (drums) - Produced by: Cyril Achard, Deven Prod
- Engineered by: tbd
- Mixed by : tbd
- Mastered by: tbd
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| French guitarist
Cyril Achard is back in an aggressive power trio format
for “Violencia”; an album which boasts just one
guitar with no overdubs working with a grooving rhythm section.
“Violencia” signals Achard’s intention to
produce driving rock once again some seven years away from
the scene. During the time away Cyril has been working in
a jazz format building up a strong following around the
world with his jazz trio who released the acclaimed “Trace”
CD/DVD dual pack on Lion Music in 2007. Reuniting with Cyril
once again to form his backing band are the highly esteemed
musicians - bassist Franck Hermanny and drummer Eric Lebailly.
Best known for being members of France’s biggest metal
band - Adagio, the rhythm section also have previous recording
history with Achard on the “...In Inconstancia Constans”
release (2001 Lion Music). “Violencia” marks Achard’s
most metal and aggressive of all his electric guitar releases
to date. The style of the album could be viewed as a cross
between Steve Lukather-ish instrumentals whilst the driving
power of album comes as an influence from Metallica, which,
whilst not in the same musical ballpark, the metal legends
raw power provided Achard with the inspiration to make more
powerful tunes again, “St Hetfield” is such a
nod to this. Generally “Violencia” can be considered
a simple, straight rock instrumental CD. Achard comments,
“In the past people only talked about the complexity
of my compositions with no mention of my melodies and song
writing and I guess I was thinking I hadn’t finished
the job of what songs are about. So “Violencia”
is out to show that I can compose 4 minute tunes with definite
intros, verses, choruses and solo sections woven into instrumental
frameworks”. “Violencia” proves itself to be an accessible instrumental offering with Achard’s best playing to date in a rock setting. |
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