Album Notes

Catharsis is a compilation of instrumental compositions for Classical Guitar and Chinese lutes from 2003-2009 by Jonel Boljanac. The music expresses experiences of life and the psyche of personal and professional challenges through creative evolution. Catharsis travels through various landscapes of the past, present and future of eastern and western musical influence with the process Catharsis.

A variety of Classical Guitars and Chinese Lutes with various tuning methods and pitch calibration with different string materials were used for an array of tones and texures for each individual piece. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 15, 18 feature a Romanian Hora Classical Guitar set up to Baroque configurations. Track 8 features a Cordoba Spanish Classical Guitar tuned to A=385Hz. Track 12 features the Cordoba at A=432Hz. Tracks 4, 5, 17 features a Grobert Classical Guitar. Tracks 9, 10 features a Pipa Chinese Lute. Tracks 11, 12, 13, 16 features a Liuqin Soprano Chinese Lute. Tracks 12, 13 features Guitar and Liuqin together.

The music can be viewed as Etudes of study for guitar or any instrument. Some of the tracks feature all alternate plectrum picking, fingerpicking and trademark "All Alternate Picked High Speed Multi-Octave Arpeggios" with plectrum, currently on the only guitarist in the world publicly dispaying this technique.

Other recordings; Lightning Tree - Volume 1 (2000), En-Lightning (2003)