I’m going to do some more guitar soli and duets with David Campbell at the Happy Goat on Elgin St. on January 26. Hope to see you there!

Here’s a clip David recorded of a new piece I premiered on Friday at the Happy Goat, layering solos and loops over a bossa nova groove.

https://youtu.be/pdQBP984Rq4

Going to play a solo set, with some new material, at the Happy Goat at 145 Main St., Ottawa, on Oct 20, with local guitar great David Campbell also doing a set. We plan to do a few duets as well.

Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/new-music-for-guitar-david-campbell-and-sundar-subramanian-at-happy-goat-tickets-725237523957

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/270014312519597?ref=newsfeed

A quick, fun Canada Day project: yesterday morning, the great Canadian guitarist and educator Matt Warnock shared his arrangement and backing tracks for a solo over the changes of the Schwarz/Dietz standard “Alone Together”, in the style of the late Canadian guitar great Ed Bickert, using some direct quotes. To celebrate the day and pay tribute to two greats, I learned and recorded his arrangement by that night, adding my own solo just after 2:00.
https://soundcloud.com/sundar-subramanian/alone-together

“Locating Echoes”, a new solo guitar/electronics piece of mine was included on the Ottawa Experimental Music Comp II compilation, released today.

Direct link for my piece:

Link for the album:

My solo guitar version of Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” will be broadcast on CKCU-FM’s post-rock etc programme Hexon Bogon tomorrow morning (5 May) between 9:30-11:30 am. Thanks, Adriana! Listen at 93.1FM in the Ottawa area or online anywhere.

https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/544/60403.html

I recorded this solo guitar arrangement of Wayne Shorter’s tune “Footprints”, using expression pedals to modulate short digital delay times.

I just released an EP with modern solo guitar arrangements of two traditional carols. (For those so inclined, “God Rest You Merry Gentlemen” is arranged in two-voice bimodal counterpoint and “Les anges dans nos campagnes” (“Angels We Have Heard on High”) is a chord-melody arrangement drawing on jazz harmony; both have improvised solo sections. “Les anges” was recorded last year and put out on Soundcloud but it is properly mastered here.

Thanks again to Adriana Ciccone for including a piece from Electric Currents on CKCU’s Hexon Bogon for the second week in a row.
https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/544/58548.html?fromedit=1

Thanks to Adriana Ciccone for including “Processional” on the playlist for tomorrow’s episode of the post-rock etc. programme Hexon Bogon on CKCU (93.1 FM in Ottawa, 9:30-11:30 am Friday): https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/544/58465.html