CHRIS BRIAN GUSSA: Full Moon in Cancun

Chris Brian Gussa

Full Moon in Cancun

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There's now a new genre called "Surf Mambo", it's an all instrumental blend of Latin, Surf and the Finest Flamenco Style Lead Guitar you'll ever hear.

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Like Chris's new CD, "Tales of the Flamenco Surfer" This Instrumental CD has a strong Latin-Flamenco feel with Surf Guitar running all through it. Its hard to imagine the blend until you hear it but when you do you'll swear its the way it was always supposed to be! Growing up surfing in the San Diego area, Chris knows the surfing experience almost as much as the guitar experience so the two naturally had to come together.

"Full Moon in Cancun" is all about listening and seeing pictures in your head. This is the perfect music to lay back and travel to parts of the world you always knew were out there, where you can smell both the surf and the perfume of the beautiful Mexican woman next to you in your cherry '48 Ford "Woody Wagon".

National DJ Rick Dees started calling Chris the
"King of Instrumental Background" about a year ago when he first heard his CD saying, "Artists spend their whole lives shooting for a "hit" which is all I play on my show and then their's Chris! He never even wanted a hit, and now look what he has done with that concept!"


Says Chris, "Looking back at the Days when I spent every day working with singing artists on that "tried and proven Nashville formula for a hit song", I wouldnt trade this for the world!"

Not too many people know that besides being a musician Chris Gussa (or Dr. Christopher Gussa) is a Traditional Chinese Medicine Herbal practitioner and sees patients every day. He also has one of the largest herbal medicine sites on the web. It’s called PlantCures.com! You can also find his music at this site.

Marketing plans include targeting listeners that want the perfect music for dreaming, working, kickin' back, or going down the road. Also licensing for surf films and other commercial ventures are being consedered.

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  • I was instantly taken away to a warm and welcoming, smooth sand beach.
    author: Beverly Durfee -The Daily Sentinel

    I happened to start this review on a rare rainy day in western Colorado and I was instantly taken away to a warm and welcoming, smooth sand beach. My customary newsroom tension melted away under Gussa’s guitars and I was treated to the best a southern beach can offer - without the worry of sunburn, tourists or any of that smooth sand in the wrong places. Every song on this CD is lovely and lovingly played. I don’t encounter many CDs that make me feel is if the music is a gift from the artist. Gussa, especially under headphones, creates an intimate getaway without cliché or the usual tourist-trap fare of “location” music. Track Two, “Welcome to Paradise,” is my favorite song (this listening anyway). I love the layered guitars, which are reminiscent of The Ventures but more beautifully played. Gussa’s music is not an exhibition of how fast he can play - as with too many instrumentalists - his songs are carefully woven note by note. Gussa arranged and played all the songs and instruments himself on this “Latin, surf rock, mambo, flamenco” CD. Many artists try this, but few succeed … they usually fail in keeping every instrument sounding fresh and crisp. Each player brings their own fire to their piece, whether it be the lead guitar or the far far back background bongos. Gussa plays each instrument and note is if it was his only concern. I don’t know what else to say about this CD. I could go on all day. But don’t waste any more time reading this - instead go to: http://www.chrisbriangussa.com/ to learn more and buy the CD. Really.

  • Packed with Latin and flamenco passion
    author: Brian D. Holland - Modern Guitars

    Chris Brian Gussa is a guitar player of distinction. ‘Full Moon in Cancun’ is packed with Latin and flamenco passion and flair. Though he may be the labeled the ‘King of Background Music’, no small claim in itself, every song on this wonderful CD has substance and personality of its own. Give it a listen; then sit back, relax, and close your eyes. You can almost feel your body sway to the swells of the south Pacific while relaxing to the music.

  • The "King Of Background Music" is much more than that.
    author: Phil Dirt

    The "King Of Background Music" is much more than that. Yes, the album would serve that purpose well, but there are several tracks here with excellent surf guitar and melodies that are well arranged and command attention directly. Beautiful and lush, and very well thought out. Not surf in the classic sense, but not far from the niche that the Aqua Velvets sometimes inhabit either. Picks: Full Moon In Cancun, Welcome To Paradise, Moonlight Mambo, Be Pacific, I Can't Even See The Shore, The Tiki Hut, The Blue Iguana

  • It is the perfect back ground music for a movie!
    author: Chad Gillies Auctionsongs.com

    Hi, Chris! I got your cd’s today. All’s I have to say: WOW! It is the perfect back ground music for a movie!

  • "Full Moon in Cancun" is a masterful mixture of several solid style influences
    author: Stone Bayliss HitClick Staff Reviewer

    "Full Moon in Cancun" is a masterful mixture of several solid style influences, beginning with a percussion intro and a catchy island guitar riff that quickly expands to a full set of instrumentation that, from what I can tell, is all performed by Chris Brian Gussa himself. This includes all guitars (even the fast ones), bass, percussion, the cool electric solo, and the pickup piano parts. The entire song grooves us right onto the sunny surf of Cancun, far away from the squares of the city ... or perhaps the rectangles if you're Uma ... and doesn't drop you off until it puts you down. I even think this tune's got three or four solos, which get slightly more technically angled as the song progresses. "Technically angled"? I meant "rocking". Sorry

  • I love your CD been listening to it all week
    author: Dave Wood ZptdudaMucic.com

    Chris - I love your CD. I have been listening to it all week during my commutes to work. I think the Rick Dees quote does your music an injustice. There is something cinematic about your music, but definitely not wallpaper. I could see it as the soundtrack for an "Endless Summer" sort of movie or possibly a spaghetti western.

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