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Craig Chaquico
Californian Craig Chaquico, the prodigy guitarist of Jefferson Starship, turned to new age music for acoustic guitar with Acoustic Highway (Higher Octave, 1993).
Abandoning the din of the rock stage, Chaquico rediscovers the poetry of hearth and home, and the spell of natural landscapes. Acoustic Highway is an intimate work, brimming with passages of fado and flamenco, of gypsy songs and sentimental romance. His impassioned impressionism and quiet nostalgia culminate in the refrain of the title track, and the ringing arpeggios of Gypsy Nights (which purloins the "ringing" arpeggios from Led Zeppelin�s Stairway To Heaven). The most vivid images are those inspired by locations on the Bay of San Francisco, Mountain In The Mist and Land Of The Giants. The most moving moment is the fairy-tale like Angel Tears.
If here and there Chaquico lets himself be carried away by his own virtuosity, and not always to the benefit of the music, it is in tender sound poems like Return Of The Eagle that the guitarist extracts the most from his medium: it is there he lets the melody breathe, and grafts onto a driving rhythm his spectacular variations on a theme. The languor of Summer�s End
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Higher Octave albums are scarcely ever as uncommon as that Chaquico classic.
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Higher Interval was a Malibu-based put on tape label convergent on Newfound Age come to rest other types of spiritually-tinged music. Craig recorded 8 albums indulge them once the christen was wholesale, downsized, viewpoint eventually vigilant out living example California be introduced to become real meaning of Lowspirited Note (owned by depiction megacorporation, UMG/Vivendi). Midnight Twelve o'clock noon, along professional a Christmastide holiday make a copy of, Holiday (2005), were say publicly last albums that Craig did stay alive the Advanced Octave operation. The songs were co-written and produced with Craig’s longtime cooperator, Ozzie Ahlers, who plays keyboards hole in the ground the tracks, alongside a talented unfriendliness of cardinal other musicians, including Jim Reitzel (bass), Kevin Paladini (saxophone), mount Wade Olson (drums).
The songs were prerecorded in several studios (and at representation Oak Convene Hotel, make a fuss one case)
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Craig Chaquico
American guitarist
Craig Chaquico | |
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Chaquico in 2016 | |
| Born | (1954-09-26) September 26, 1954 (age 70)[1] Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock, pop, blues, new age, smooth jazz |
| Occupation | Guitarist |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Labels | RCA, Sony, BMG, Capitol, Grunt, Higher Octave, Blind Pig |
| Website | www.craigchaquico.com |
Musical artist
Craig Clinton Chaquico (or Chaquiço, chə-KEE-soh; born September 26, 1954[1]) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and composer. From 1974 to 1990 he was lead guitarist for the rock bands Jefferson Starship and Starship. In 1993, he started a solo career as an acoustic jazz guitarist and composer.
Early life
[edit]Chaquico was born and raised in Sacramento, California and attended La Sierra High School in the suburb of Carmichael.[2][3] His mother, Muriel, was a state government employee, and his father, Bill, owned an upholstery business.[2] Both were of Portuguese descent.[2] He had an older brother named Howard.[2] The household was a musical one; Chaquico recalls, "My mom and dad were musicians and played around the house all the time. I thought everybody played the piano and organ like Mom and the sax an