Album Notes

Loren Claypool composes, improvises, creates, and records "genre-indifferent instrumental guitar music" with acoustic, electric, baritone electric, fretless electric, lap steel, baritone lap steel, touch, and synthesizer guitars.

His album "One Feather Shy" crosses musical boundaries with little regard for convention. Sometimes delicate, sometimes aggressive, the music is textural, visual, thoughtful, and emotional. Moving from spaghetti western to ambient, from progressive to melodic, from sparse arrangements to densely orchestrated compositions, each song is fascinating on its own, but clearly an integral part of the larger work.

"One Feather Shy" is as diverse tonally as it is musically. Loren is fascinated with the sounds that can be made with the instruments he plays. He is just as likely to ferociously manipulate a guitar's sound as he is to preserve the traditional tone of the instrument. The result is a unique sonic approach to instrumental guitar music. And, on this recording, it's all guitar.

What are other recording musicians saying about Loren Claypool’s music?
• Bryan Beller – "interesting sounds, textures, and melodies, not the usual fare"
• Hernan Nunez – "Your cd is great and we're happy to recommend it, will keep doing so!"
• Patrick O’Hearn – "very nice indeed"
• David Fiuczynski – "Very cool music, 'genre-indifferent', I like that! ;-)"
• Markus Reuter – "the pieces are great"
• Geoff Brandin of The Vanduras – "some very cool music"
• Ed DeGenaro – "the cool lap playing brought Kimock to mind"
• Mike Gaito - "beautiful, beautiful, beautiful"
• Randy Strom – "I am so enjoying all your beautiful stringy guitar sounds and moods on One Feather Shy"
• LeaLoop (Leander Reininghaus) – "the tunes are performed masterly and they are truly beyond the limits of certain genres, guitar music of the future"
• Teed Rockwell – "a great sense and understanding of the broad range of the guitar"
• Jurica Jelic – "awesome guitar work"
• Ken Andreoni – "great style and composition, a departure from the norm"
• Jose Moura – "beautiful playing and unique music"
• Amir Baghiri – "simply excellent with intelligent and thoughtful compositions and unique details"
• Marco Oppedisano – "ambient in combination with gritty guitar tones and E-bow, very tasteful and wonderful use of electric guitar color"
• Paul Kuhn – "the layering of the guitars is gorgeous".

In addition to his solo work, Loren is a member of Guitar Circle of Chicago, a group of musicians committed to working with the principles of Guitar Craft as a "way of doing things." Guitar Circle of Chicago is featured on one of the songs on "One Feather Shy". He is also a contributing cohort to Lee Fletcher's [halo] "Covers Venture" project. Loren co-scored and recorded the soundtrack for the award-winning independent film "Lost Love".