Erik Mongrain

Erik Mongrain ( born April 12, 1980 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ) is a Canadian guitarist and composer, who by his particular style, the two-handed tapping on the acoustic guitar, distinguished.

Biography

Mongrain was an avid sports teenager when he received a classical guitar at the age of 14 years. The guitar fascinated him and he learned to play his favorite songs by ear as an autodidact. For a time he played electric guitar, turned his interest eventually, however, the acoustic guitar.

In addition to the games, he taught himself to read music and began composing his own pieces. He was inspired about Metallica, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, but also by Johann Sebastian Bach, whose guitar pieces he knew by heart. At the age of 18 he discovered the guitar virtuoso Don Ross for themselves: " This was a new revelation for me. I finally found my direction. " Later, he was strongly influenced by the music of Michael Hedges.

At this time, Mongrain started with the "lap tapping " the advancement of tapping technique developed by Stanley Jordan. The guitar is similar to the Hawaiian guitar on his lap, so that both hands to be able to produce sounds. This generates the guitarist both notes on the fretboard by different knock down the fingers of both hands between the frets of the fingerboard ( Tapping ) and percussive sounds by tapping on the strings and body of the guitar.

Work

Mongrain started out as a street musician and played in subway stations, and later he gave their own concerts and appeared on television, without forgetting his roots. The Guild Magazine put his music before in an issue that showed his picture on the cover. Even Le Journal de Montréal and the Journal Espagnol Granada reported about him.

Mongrain music is used as background music of a documentary about the " Everest Peace Project " "(produced by Lance Trumbull ). Mongrain was invited for the premiere of " World Music Heritage " (World Music Awards ), which aired in May 2007 at the National Japanese Network been. the footage was filmed in Montreal's streets and in the Saint Joseph's Chapel, which is known for its acoustics. iVideoTune the Company 2008 recorded four videos, including his composition Equilibrium.

In December 2006, Erik presented his first album entitled Fates ready on his website. The CD was released in June 2007 ( in Japan in May 2007). In 2008 he published his second CD Equilibrium. Erik Mongrain gives concerts in the U.S., Canada and Europe and is much in his home province of Quebec on ​​the go.

Discography

  • Les pourris de talent ( Compilation, 2005)
  • Un paradis quelque part ( music, 2005)
  • Fates (2007)
  • Equilibrium (2008)
  • Forward ( 2012)
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