21st Century Riffology Jimmy Ryan

• 1 Event Horizon 01:24
• 2 Speedloader 02:17
• 3 Thor’s Hammer 01:53
• 4 Stompbox 02:56
• 5 Mazerunner 02:12
• 6 Hammerhead 01:45
• 7 Untamed 02:22
• 8 Superchunk 02:35
• 9 Piledriver 01:53
• 10 X factor 03:18
• 11 Ad Astra 05:13
• 12 Stardust 04:18
• 13 Slipstream 01:38
• 14 Nailgun 01:47
• 15 Rockcutter 01:46
• 16 Skullduggery 02:15
• 17 Red Cloud 01:56
• 18 Injector 02:41
• 19 Funkalicious 01:34
• 20 Inside America 03:47
• 21 Zenology 01:13
• Total Runtime 50:43

Info zu 21st Century Riffology

Awesome instrumental guitar album by this outstanding axemaster from Illinois featuring 21 tracks of excellent, powerful, dynamic, blues-based, heavy guitar rock riffage that stands tall and defines serious, world-class, six string artistry. With the hefty 21 track musical display, the listener get‘s treated to a colossal display of high-octane, intelligent, killer riffage that lands cerebral = (Riffology).

Celebrating his lifetime as a guitarist, Jimmy Ryan has honed all his musical skills for many years in The Flyin‘ Ryan Brothers, Truth Squad along with a multitude of other bands & recording projects. On his latest way-kool Grooveyard Records disc: "21st Century Riffology", Mr. Ryan has landed masterful as an experienced guitar rock veteran displaying a myriad of superb, accomplished fretboard skills. Our good musical brother Jimmy Ryan delivers a mega-kick-ass performance with his super-sonic axework featuring "tightly focused, fully realized, bursts of liberated guitar madness".

Jimmy Ryan is a true, legit, old-school, total guitar rocker who speaks volumes on the instrument complete with vast amounts of style & class, a modern day guitar slingin‘ riffmaster supreme who definitely Keeps the Rock alive on the impressive "21st Century Riffology" disc. An essential instrumental guitar rock musical document; a soundtrack of life that shines brightly and is all about the riffage that matters. Highly recommended to world-wide fans and lovers of top-shelf, classic, authentic, heavy guitar rock music.

Technology has completely changed the way we consume media, especially our music; we now have personal playlists of tens of thousands of songs from thousands of artists delivered through tiny earbuds as an incidental aural backdrop to the hyper-accelerated, digitally saturated reality in which we exist. Mindful immersion into a full-length album with headphones in complete isolation is a quaint throwback to a different age where we actually had time to engage in such activities.

It should come as no surprise that most of our sensory input does not come from the physical reality that surrounds us, but from the media environment that saturates it. As the Information Age rages forward, we’ve gotten used to everything being delivered to us via digitally-encoded, selectively edited packets of information for our endless consumption. This is “The New Normal” and it’s redefining the way we do…and think about…everything.

The music industry has been slow to embrace this new paradigm, where outmoded operational methods are still entrenched, the quest for the hit still dominates, and underlying song architecture is still exactly the same as it’s always been. With tanking sales across all genres, it’s shocking that the industry continues to base its business model on the definition of insanity (doing the same things they’ve always done in the same way they’ve always done them and expecting different results).

This release is an attempt within the genre of instrumental guitar music to consciously shift that outmoded paradigm to one that better reflects what the consumption of music means in the Anthropocene: short, tightly focused, fully realized and highly controlled bursts of guitar madness liberated from the structural constraints of the past. 21 songs in about 50 minutes.

Welcome to 21st Century Riffology, an instrumental guitar rock soundscape that provides a new musical blueprint for a future that desperately needs one. Jimmy Ryan (October 2017)

Jimmy Ryan, guitars, bass
Dan Van Schindel, drums, percussion

Jimmy Ryan
has dedicated himself to the artistry of guitar. He has been a creating music for over 45 years and shows no sign of losing his passion, ambition or desire to continually reinvent himself. His ability to adapt his creative spirit to a diverse range of projects is a key ingredient in his success.

All humans have a unique fingerprint, and in the world of guitar Jimmy has a distinctive voice that is unique to him. When Jimmy hits a note, you know it’s him…and that’s what makes him one of a kind.

Jimmy’s style is deeply rooted in the Blues, incorporating a heavy, “future retro” hard rock tonal palette and a sublimely refined, highly emotive approach. He blends a broad range of modern guitar techniques with classic phraseology and sophisticated melodic sensibilities reminiscent of the masters, all rolled into a unique stylistic fingerprint that is unmistakably all his own.

Jimmy recorded his first solo project, “Jimmy Ryan / Finally”, in 1987 on a vinyl-only album release. It was remastered from the original tapes and re-released on CD in 1999.

In 2003, Jimmy released his second solo project, “Truth Squad / Superkiller”, featuring The Flyin’ Ryan Brothers’ amazing rhythm section of Johnny Mrozek (drums) and William Kopecky (bass). Not only did the CD receive 4 GRAMMY nominations as well, but Jimmy appeared in his first full-length interview in the February 2004 issue of 20th Century Guitar magazine. In 2017, Jimmy released his third solo album, “Jimmy Ryan / 21st Century Riffology” on Grooveyard Records. From the liner notes:

“This release is an attempt within the genre of instrumental guitar music to consciously shift that outmoded paradigm to one that better reflects what the consumption of music means in the Anthropocene: short, tightly focused, fully realized and highly controlled bursts of guitar madness liberated from the structural constraints of the past. 21 songs in about 50 minutes.”

In addition to his body of work with The Flyin’ Ryan Brothers and his solo projects, Jimmy is also a prolific composer, arranger and in-demand session guitarist; Jimmy’s work has been featured in many nationally syndicated television shows and include clients such as BRAVO, Food Network, HGTV and the NFL. He has also appeared on dozens of album releases by other artists, and his playing can be heard in numerous independent films as well. In partnership with drummer extraordinaire Dan Van Schindel, these recording sessions are produced in Dan’s state-of-the-art home studio.

Jimmy continues to compose, arrange and record music for TV, film and his solo work. He also designs and builds custom guitars, cabinets and pedal boards, tweaks amplifier circuits and modifies effects pedals to his exacting personal specifications.

Jimmy has been a member of the Chicago Federation of Musicians Local 10-208 for over 40 years and is a Voting Member of the National Academy for the Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).

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