Fantastic!
author: Marco Oppedisano
This is really such an impressive CD from beginning to end. It is such a rich musical journey through the endlessly creative mind of Shane Hendricks. Although it is primarily a guitar driven driven disc, the focus is on the music and that is the way it ought to be. Also, the kids are so damn cute. Great stuff!
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Fantastic!
author: Marco Oppedisano
This is really such an impressive CD from beginning to end. It is such a rich musical journey through the endlessly creative mind of Shane Hendricks. Although it is primarily a guitar driven driven disc, the focus is on the music and that is the way it ought to be. Also, the kids are so damn cute. Great stuff!
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Another Kick A$$ CD from my buddy Shane!
author: Mark Sobus
Spread the word on this CD and pick up one for your musician buddies. Really cool arrangements!
Awesome CD, Shane! Keep up the great work. Maybe we will meet again someday, my friend.
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Awesome CD
author: Ken Rubenstein
Transduction Euphony is awesome. An incredibly well produced and engineered record with gorgeous sonic clarity, Transduction Euphony spans a wide conceptual spectrum.
Shane's influences are all over the place. Gems like "Finger in the Wall Socket" and "Thread O Crashed" sound like they could be right out of the Zappa song catalog circa "Jazz From Hell" (sometimes sounding as if covered by the Residents). The Zappa influence is readily apparent. It's not a contrived and blind regurgitating of some pre-existing Zappa sound. It's a very faithful and sophisticated and mature reflection of the Zappa sound. "Autopsy and Lunch" is another gem right out of the Zappa handbook. I know of many guitarists who borrow liberally from Zappa, but honestly Shane is one of the very few composers who makes this influence completely his own. That requires skill.
The thing that always strikes me about Shane's tunes is not just the depth of the composition and supporting guitar work, but the choice of timbres, horizontal arrangement and overall production of the piece. There is some beautiful exploration of timbre going on throughout. The Mahavishnu-ish rock fusion tune "Am I Not Poisoned?" prominently showcases Shane's wonderful guitar work as well as his attention to arrangement and choice of timbre.
Shane's vision is clearly a pretty unique one and to see this vision through to fruition, he adds very subtle and unpredictable production-related nuances like running voice samples like (I think) "Psychoanalytical Double Talk" (through a ring modulator-type effect) on "Cindy's Fit", adding yet another element crazed eccentricity to the whole production.
Another gem and one of my favorites on the record is “Dysgeusia”, which sounds like a cross between Jeff Beck and Wendy Carlos. It's brilliant and has a totally infectious vibe to it. This tune is now in heavy MP3 rotation.
There's alot of creativity here. There is never any lack of attentiveness to arrangement and timbre. At times the tunes are reminiscent of Vai, especially as it relates to Vai's approach to doubling/mimicking the dynamics of human speech. On "Immobolize the Alkaloid", he actually has programmed drums (rhythmically) doubling spoken word samples from some chemist friend of his. It's relatively nuts....kind of a combination of Rene Lussier (check out Lussier's "Le tre'sor de la langue"...it's amazing) and Vai.
Suddenly, amid all the complexity and madness appears 32 seconds of angelic relief in the form of his daughter singing revamped version of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”.
It's obvious to me, anyway, that Shane puts tons of thought into his work (which is really the way it’s supposed to be). It's an incredibly well thought out and meticulously constructed collection of very innovative music. You will hear Vai, Zappa, Scofield and many others in his comping, phrasing and execution of ideas. If you want new and adventurous music realized through advanced guitar playing, pick up Transduction Euphony now.
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