Today’s and tomorrow’s six stringers….
Gaetano Letizia goes acoustic and electric with his guitars teamed with Bob Esterle/ts-ss, Theron Brown/p-org, Bill Ransom/perc and Matthew DeRubertis/b on this collection of originals. Plugged in, he rocks hard with Esterle’s tenor sax and a humming Hammond on the title piece and gets funky in the same setting on “Gerecide”, getting pretty extroverted on the bluesy bop of “Back and Blue”. There’s a Steely Dan feel to songs like “Punch Drunk” and “Paradise Found” with both tunes abounding in lyricism. On acoustic strings, the nylon strings bounce over the congas on the pretty “Expanding Reality” and hop over the sizzling latin lilt of “Blue Ionisphere”. Melodic frets.
Guitarist Bob Gorry forms a trio with drummer Peter Riccio and bassist Pete Brunelli for a handful of original tunes. The band can range from Gorry going garage rocker on the chunky “Safe-rocker” to a spacey groove-fest on the funky “Magic City Madness”. There are jabs and jerks that punch and stop/start for “Papillon” and the team gets bluesy and loose fitting for “Javelins”, with Riccio swingly like a thin thread attached to a weight for Gorry to pick and grin on “Always Somewhere”. Casual chords.