Andromeda

VINYL FORMAT. Comes with a digital download! The California Guitar Trio (CGT) celebrates its twentieth anniversary with the release of Andromeda. "Andromeda represents a culmination of all our work together in the past twenty years," says guitarist Bert Lams. "We have released numerous albums over the years, but there's none like this one. Andromeda is the first album containing nothing but original material, combined with improvised pieces. The integration of structured, thought-out pieces with the loose and spontaneous improvisations is something we've never done before." The California Guitar Trio is Paul Richards of Salt Lake City, Utah; Bert Lams of Affligem, Belgium; and Hideyo Moriya of Chiba, Japan. The trio first met in England in 1987 while studying with iconic King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp. After touring together as part of Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists, the three guitarists convened in Los Angeles and founded The California Guitar Trio in 1991. The CGT plays a unique style, with guitars weaving an intricate knot; interlocking parts to form a whole. Richards, Lams, and Moriya can create music which sounds like it is performed on a kind of "super-piano" and at other times unfolds in an ethereal, otherworldly manner. Having played with a who's who of great musicians over the years, Andromeda features guest performances by Tony Levin, Julie Slick, Eric Slick, Tom Griesgraber and Tyler Trotter. The cover of Andromeda also serves to celebrate another twentieth anniversary, that of the Hubble Telescope. The cover image, designed by Pablo Mandel, features a photo from the new camera on the Hubble.