New Releases by Jamie Balmer & Jon Gjylaci

ByBradford Werner
2016

American Threads by Jamie Balmer
Artist Website: jbalmer.com
Album via Bandcamp: American Threads by Jamie Balmer

American Threads features solo guitar music by Kevin Callahan, Phillip de Fremery, Frederic Hand, Thomas Schuttenhelm, and Frank Wallace alongside Jamie Balmer’s arrangements for solo guitar of music by Elliott Smith, Edward MacDowell, and Leonard Bernstein (from West Side Story).

Edges of Thought by Jon Gjylaci
Artist Website: jongjylaci.com
Buy or listen samples: Edges of Thought

This album is a celebration of music from around the world. From the intimate atmosphere of the Parisian salon and the folk idioms of Spain to Kenya’s infectious Benga rhythms and the energetic samba beats of Brazil. Albéniz, Chopin, Colombo/Murena, Brouwer, Tadić, Ryan, Morel, Satie.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.