Carl Weingarten - An Endless Premonition

San Francisco Bay area electric guitar icon Carl Weingarten has taken the guitar to some strange and beautiful places these past 30 years but none more strange or beautiful than on his 2016 CD, An Endless Premonition. On An Endless Premonition, Weingarten's guitar is wonderfully captured on CD and the mastering by Myles Boisen is most impressive. Paired with Michael Manring on two tracks, on the 54 minute, five part An Endless Premonition, Weingarten paints some truly metaphysical and sonically-induced guitar soundscapes in a futuristic sounding setting. Speaking about his new CD, Carl tells the press, 'My intention was to explore a new direction, at least from my last few releases. I had been thinking about a solo electric guitar project for a few years, but I'd been reluctant as there are so many artists using loop pedals now. I didn't want to approach a project like this until I was confident I had something new to say. The title is a reference to the call and response going on within the music. Every note I play echoes back as an orchestration, rather than a clone of the original phrase. I respond to that and the music just keeps developing.' Some sonic references might be to Eno's famous work Apollo, with guitarist Dan Lanois-especially as Carl's latest CD features his lonesome sounding guitar wailing in the cosmos. A renowned photographer and a legendary guitar innovator / composer, Carl Weingarten presents five fascinating sonic snapshots of his current musical life on An Endless Premonition.