AHMAD MANSOUR guitar, compositions TERJE GEWELT bass ERIK SMITH drums Amazon Listmania! 100 GREATEST GUITAR ALBUMS (Los Angeles, CA) "One of the most tasteful electric guitar players on the planet; a great album first note to last, no weak tunes, awesome bass & drums support." Iranian-American guitarist and composer Ahmad Mansour has been active on the New York and European music scenes for over two decades, performing and recording with players such as Marc Copland, John Taylor, George Mraz or Marc Johnson and countless younger talents, with CD releases spanning the gamut of modern Jazz guitar styles. This new trio takes the concepts heard on it's last Resonant Music release, Nightlight (2002), to new levels of energy and adventurous exploration . At the crossroads of many styles of contemporary music, the focus is on improvisation, exciting group interplay and accessible yet varied compositions. With the addition of carefully chosen analog sounds and effects to enhance the wide open "ambient groove" soundscapes, this music defies categorization. Terje Gewelt, first call Scandinavian acoustic and electric bassist, has been working with Ahmad Mansour since their Berklee years in the early eighties. Aside from being a student of Jaco Pastorius and Dave Holland, he has been featured on more than fifty recordings by artists as diverse as Billy Cobham, Andy Summers or Dave Liebman, to ECM releases by Misha Alperin with Jon Christensen. Erik Smith is a versatile and virtuoso drummer from Oslo.