Fingerstyle guitar giant Guy Buttery has launched his first
live album. For over a decade, the SAMA award-winning musician has sealed the
deal with fans around the globe with his idiosyncratic and powerful live shows.
This July, the artist described as a “one man guitar orchestra” presents a live
performance on CD and begins to promote the album.
Live in KwaZulu is
a gathering of masterworks set before a live audience and strongly reaffirms
Guy Buttery’s unique place in the world of guitar heroes today.
Recorded over two nights at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,
the album showcases Guy Buttery’s further explorations in instrumentation and
innovative soundscapes. Live in KwaZulu
features, for the first time on CD, his vivid interpretation of Joanna Newsom's
The Book of Right On and his much
loved musical saw classic Smithfield
(also known as Martian Folk Song).
His lifelong musical partner, Nibs van der Spuy performs on two of the 11
tracks.
For many years, the public have asked Guy Buttery to make a
live album and in 2013 he decided to make the project come alive. “In many
ways, I've been afraid. In a live environment there's no way to get it ‘just
right’,” says Guy. “When you make music in front of an audience, there's an
energy, certain dynamics, a feel, a collective experience. This isn't the
studio. It’s real.”
Through the depth of his compositions and the tangible soul
of the music Live in KwaZulu captures
an artist live at work. This year one of South African’s most talented and
loved musicians will be promoting his new album through-out South Africa, UK,
USA and Canada.
Live in KwaZulu is
available on a limited edition CD digipack and on digital download at http://guybuttery.bandcamp.com and
on iTunes.
For more information contact Guy Butter on email: buttery@iafrica.com or visit www.guybuttery.co.za
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