Below are video clips from the SCI-FI-ROCK ALBUM "SYNESTHETIC METAFORCE". ("Entering A Black Hole", "Dawn In Venus", "Metaphoric Zone" & "Distant Voices"). A collection of soundtracks by guitarist Exavier Rivas. Released on his indie record label Fantasman, an original guitar music concept taking a step forward into the century, 8 of the album's soundtracks were recorded live in one take, while the other 4 are studio elaborated compositions..
Life has granted Exavier Rivas the freedom to perceive and conceive his own music with originality and versatility, while some of it crazy enough for our crazier world... Nonetheless is music for artful minds! and plenty of mainstream crossover Rock, Pop, love songs & lots of eclectic cool material! A true pioneer on guitar synthesis, Exavier has been redefining guitar playing for the past decades. A multi-genre music writer with strong roots in Rock, Blues, Latin, Jazz Fusion, Experimental Electronic guitar music and whatever comes into his mind... Exavier has performed in venues & concerts in and around Southern California, Central Florida, New York City, Tennessee, Mexico City, Tabasco Mex. Morocco and the U.K.
"Myself as an artist, I can see and feel what others do not... the difference is... I do know is all real...!
Furthermore; I do not play music, by the contrary, it is music who plays me... and guitars are not my instruments but rather the opposite...!".
REVIEWS & COMMENTS
"Exavier Riva's SYNESTHETIC METAFORCE; If you as a listener expected the average guitar synthesis (bells, flutes and whistles sounds) you'll be here for a big surprise! These soundtracks display new guitar playing techniques and timbers as well as orchestral layers in the analog context that bares ominous heavy sounds while the softer tracks provide a mellow atmosphere..." JAM MAGAZINE, Tampa Fl.
"SUNFLASHED an album by Exavier Rivas; His trippy compositions in the Space-Rock genre create worlds of magic that easily rivals those of Pink Floyd!..." KULTURE KRASH MAGAZINE, Los Angeles Ca .
" Guitar synthetist Exavier Rivas; Hard to define which genre of music he belongs to, possessing an arsenal of songwriting skills reminded this reviewer of Pink Floyd, but not necessarily, at any rate, one moment one genre, next moment a different genre..." DOWNLOAD MUSIC CNET.COM
"Hundreds of bands have played my venue, however I have never heard anything like Exavier Rivas before or after!... DAVE'S AQUALOUNGE, Saint Petersburg Fl.
"Exavier Rivas... An edge on the 60's, the past is the future, You blew our minds altogether!..." ELECTROHARMONIX CORPORATION, HALL OF SCIENCE, New York City NY.
"In listening to Exavier Riva's music live at Electronica Nite's One can tell he is not a one-man-band but rather a gutsy solo performer who can still sound just as good without a band, drum machines or sequencers. Managing to develop audience's interest to see what's coming up next!, his styles are reminiscence of late 60's guitarists combined with his own unheard raw style..." FOCUS MAGAZINE, Clearwater Fl.
"Being a professional jazz-funk session player I can say that it was a whole lot of fun creating music with Exavier, indeed he is an innovative mean guitarist!..." GREGG SANDERS, Detroit MI.
Favorite Quote
"...What ENERGY VAMPIRES fear the most is other people's success, DO NOT let them enervate your ecstasy and deviate you from achieving your goals..." JUDITH ORLOFF (Author of Positive Energy.)
"...When a political state, entity, ideology or government fails to recognize the worth and dignity of human rights then that state, entity, ideology or government has become obsolete and therefore it must be changed or come to an end!..." ROD SERLING (American writer, producer The Twilight Zone).
Exavier's favorites guitar pedals & signal processors are:
MXR flanger, DOD stereo chorus, Maestro/Moog phase shifter, Roland DC-10 analog echo, Yamaha DX-50 Studio EFXs Roland GS6 Rack Mountable Guitar EFXs, Alesis Quadraverb Rack Mountable EFXs, Zoom RFX-2200 Rack Mountable EFXs, Electroharmonix phaser pedal and Alien-Technologies 2020 space station guitar EFXs.
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