Before starting into his newest song, Voodoo Shilton talked about the inspiration for him from Paco de Lucia. Voodoo wanted to write something along the lines of how he played with John McLaughin and Al DiMeola when they worked so much together. That didn't quite set the standard high enough so he named the song "Crossroads" and that name will trigger a reaction in anyone who ever so much as looked at a used guitar in a pawn shop.
Voodoo has formidable skills in music on multiple instruments but maybe he was setting the bar too high to jump over it.
Nope, that isn't what happened.
Voodoo set to making loops using three different tonal setups for the guitar. I don't know the specifics of how he was doing that but there were clearly three guitars, at least by sound. I know some of you are familiar with the first release by DiMeola, de Lucia, and McLaughlin and I can report that Voodoo brought that back to the Circus last night. It wasn't that he was copying anything but rather he was using the a similar style of play to go off in his own direction.
Counterpoint is when you have two melodies playing off each other, perhaps something like a DNA helix. However, unlike DNA, the parts don't line up one-for-one with anything else as those types of compositions yield unisons or harmony lines but those aren't the same thing as counterpoint. Bach is usually nominated as the standard for contrapuntal music and there's probably enough mathematics in it to launch a starship but it's brilliant in execution and so it was with Voodoo last night.
If you think I just gush, well, think what you like ... just go to Voodoo's show and find out for yourself! What I say about him ain't gush!
This is gush: Ich liebe dich, meine kleine Schmuseling!
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