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In 2008 I was looking to learn Oriental guitar. For some reason, without explanation or knowing why something inside me was drawn to this style that was light-years away from me. I did not understand this huge attraction to this style.
It was one of the most beautiful and fruitful periods of my life. I didn’t have to be attracted to sadness to want to learn to specialize in that style.
The teacher who taught me claimed that this style passes from father to son, meaning you will have to work hard to find an Oriental guitar teacher or create your own Oriental style since it has no uniform guideline.
Unlike the other songs on the “New Vibes” album recorded spontaneously and unplanned, I would say even improvised, this song (Oriental Spice) was played in my mind 24 hours before the recording. It sounds like an outside voice forcing its presence into your life without you having the ability to resist.
After a few minutes of this song playing in my head, I took my acoustic guitar and started to find the song’s opening note. The general direction I aspired to was an Oriental-style song, just as it sounded in my mind.
The next day, I recorded this song. After I finished recording, (the first oriental song I recorded), I liked the end result almost more than any other song I recorded. It had something warm, something reminiscent of cuisine cooking smells and spices as attractive as there are in traditional Oriental cuisine.
Oriental but different from the familiar Oriental style. Yet also different from all the classic styles, and despite everything, digested smoothly and left a taste of more, Although taste is a personal matter.
Come taste it and decide if you connect to the style – enjoy
