Clive Carroll in Concert

The level of musicality that Clive displays is truly astonishing, one not automatically present in even the most skilled of professional guitarists. Stylistically, Clive's compositions rove eclectically and brilliantly through and across genre boundaries. Clive's composition Aerial Discoveries is an homage to Michael Hedges. 'With his use of two-handed tapping, Michael broke down musical barriers.' Carroll says, 'allowing a refreshing new range of homophonic and polyphonic textures to evolve.' Carroll's Farewell is a lyrical creation directly inspired by Clive's Irish upbringing. This composition display Clive's superb sense of rhythm, external and internal, and his unerring feel for pace, knowing just when and how to let the music breathe Most of Carroll's compositions are in standard tuning. Snake Bite Boogie, which he wrote for one of his students is particularly tricky. 'Roger's got this extraordinary ability to learn everything I give him from memory by the next lesson,' Clive says. 'So one week, feeling a bit evil, I gave him this and said, 'Right then Roger, see you next week!'

Running time 72 minutes