Featured Album this Week (4/4/11): “A Work in Progress” by Ernesto Schnack

This week’s album is purely instrumental, and I must say, that didn’t bother me one bit. From start to finish, this album sounded amazing and kept me interested the entire time, without using any words. That is an extremely hard feat to accomplish these days, isn’t it? Either way, I was damn impressed.

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Ernesto Schnack sent me a tweet yesterday as I was searching for music to write about for this week, and I was pleased to see a link to his classy looking Bandcamp page. Ernesto is a solo guitarist, and his album “A Work in Progress” is an incredible display of his insanely awesome guitar skills. The album is heavily classical, but his choice of chord voicings introduces an entirely different element. It probably would sound too different from an unplugged Tool gig.

I love his use of guitar as a percussion instrument, which perfectly compliments the haunting guitar melodies, radical tempo changes, and interesting chord progressions found throughout the album. Not something I typically listen to, but I genuinely enjoyed this album from cover-to-cover. This is staying in my collection for sure.

You can download the album over on Ernesto’s Bandcamp page for whatever price you see fit.