Hector Rodriguez

Héctor Rodríguez, born in 1965, began to play the guitar to the 12 years. In their beginnings their formation was classic but then he leans to the rock and the electric guitar. It integrated several formations "underground" among those that stands out the trio Flavio Barok, José Luis Rey and Héctor Rodríguez with style of symphonic Rock and fusion. In 1999, it produces their first CD like soloist participating entirely in the composition, arrangements and multitrack recording , executing all the instruments. This material spreads quickly in mp3 web sites achieving great acceptance what prepares the road for a work but finish and professional "The northern lights." This CD of 9 instrumental songs go through a style fusion, smooth jazz and instrumental progressive rock. In this you can appreciate, besides the sound quality and recording, very melodic compositions and interpreted with expression and feeling. The style of playing Héctor's guitar Rodríguez is characterized by simplicity and musicality with guitar solos that generate a melody in turn. In "The northern lights" it participates as invited musician José Luis Rey in keyboards. The title of the CD evokes the well-known natural phenomenon as Aurora Boreal that represents the concept of this work very well of take place in the listener positive emotions.

"There is plenty of beautiful spiritual soundscapes on Hector Rodriguez' album Las Luces del Norte. All its nine pieces reveal a very gifted musician who is using creatively its diverse musical influences from jazz to prog rock to create a music with substance and meaning."

Stephen - jazzworldquest.com

" Hector Rodriguez is a very talented jazz-fusion guitarist from Argentina. This is second cd as leader, and on his own label at that. He had the bright idea of producing everything by himself using 24-bit resolution recording. Hectors straight-ahead progressive jazz rock style is very easy on the ear, with his nine original compositions presented here.The guitarist blends well with the keyboard companion, and the outcome is a generous portion of well delivered music that never leaves the listener behind. Cosas Simples/Simple Things is a wonderful work that deserves much air time on the radio, and so is the title track The Northern Lights/Las Luces del Norte. For those jazz listeners who want to hear something refreshingly new and progressive, this CD will fill the bill nicely. Each song is perfectly performed by musicians who care what they are saying musically and want to share those special feelings with the listeners. Excellent performances. The recording quality is excellent."

Activ Salim - metalhaven.livejournal.com

"Beautiful piano to open the song and then with the addition of the keyboard. the song becomes very relaxing like laying in a field of grass. the solo at 2.27 sounds real cool with the effect. nice jazzy flowing guitar solo, especially like the second solo with a little more energy and distortion and better scale runs.cool overall song thats builds slowly into a jam at the end."

Review about 'Asunta' for Mike Kirkhart - Musician

"Arrangement is well thought out and the subtle positioning of the instrumentation helps fight against aural boredom. I'd take a tune like this over any of the mundane highly regularized and formulated crap in the garageband pop category anyday.Overall, well done and the writer gets bonus points for staying away from formulas while creating a nice organic piece which is enjoyable across any genere."

Review about 'Asunta' for G. Bandit - Musician

"The song grows from a whisper into a very powerful tune that covers the whole sonic spectrum. The guitar lead is my favourite. An excellent crisp sounding lead that is played well with some good feeling."

Review about 'Asunta' for Adam Carter - Musician

Now I am producing new songs for my new instrumental symphonic rock style CD "soundscapes"

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