Music For A World That's Burned

South African-born guitarist Chris Hattingh's tenth recording, Music For A World That's Burned is an instrumental summary of his musical past. Hattingh used only three instruments on the record--guitar, guitar synth and drum machine. All of what one would expect might be keyboard work (horns, waves, bass, strings) was done so that Hattingh could show what was possible with a guitar synth. He describes the music on Music For A World That's Burned as 'experimental guitar synth instrumentals', so the music varies wildly from keyboard sounding ('Funq II", "I Remember John", "January") to blazing guitar pieces (the metallic "Gassical Class" and the Santana-esqe guitar work and furious soloing on "Arena") and some in between (the fusiony "Full Bloom"). When the guitar sound is allowed to come through, Hattingh's picking ability and songwriting chops would satisfy any six-string fanatic.