Ricardo Sweatt Rodriguez
Houston, Texas, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2000 | INDIE
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"It is said that by means of the sounds of the guitar it is possible to make unforgettable travel. How to make it you can understand listening to Ricardo Sweat Rodriguez, the inhabitant of the USA with the Latin American roots, who reveals beautiful sounds by the means of his guitar and reflects in his music all about what it is spoken in the title of the tracks. It is possible absolutely precisely and in details to imagine mountains, and the caravan, and the palace of a bishop, and a wave, and the woman from Salvador that goes somewhere shaking her hips, and to fall asleep under a lullaby, and to get on the streets of Mexico, and to meet spirits flying somewhere. If you ask the musician, that apart from creating music also has time to work in his own recording company and agency that organizes concerts, how he characterizes his music it is possible to hear only that his style refers to a fashionable word-combination «acoustic fusion». Probably, this description is the exact to reflect his style that is not suitable for any existing category: so different directions are combined in the music of the guitarist. It is fusion, the mixture of various styles so masterly executed by an acoustic guitar. Rodriguez, refusing from lyrics and words on the plate, gives the listener full freedom of imagination. It is necessary to close your eyes and imagine those feelings which the guitar music so full of expression is capable to waken." - Audio Find, Russia
"Ricardo is a marvelous Virtuoso guitarist that makes the acoustic six string sing with joy! You must hear him play to appreciate his talent and god given gifts. It was not hard to choose this artist as our featured Emerging Artist of The Week." - MuzikReviews.com, USA
"Ricardo is a marvelous Virtuoso guitarist that makes the acoustic six string sing with joy! You must hear him play to appreciate his talent and god given gifts. It was not hard to choose this artist as our featured Emerging Artist of The Week." - MuzikReviews.com, USA
Discography
"Grande Reservoir" CD (2005)
"Live from the Artery" CD (2007)
"String Masters" DVD (2013)
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Bio
Ricardo Sweatt Rodriguez is an American guitarist. He works as a solo artist and runs his own record label & concert company - Omeros.net. When asked what style of music he plays, he says " Acoustic fusion. I once played for jazz great Larry Coryell and this is what he called it. It's the best description of what I do. Before, I never knew quite what to call my playing. Artists in all genres of music inspire me. Yet, my playing doesn't fall in any one category."
Ricardo has been a master-class instructor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and has studied guitar technique and performed with world-renown Belgian guitarist Bert Lams of the California Guitar Trio and American guitarist Curt Golden of the League of Crafty Guitarists. He has also studied music through course work with world-renown English guitarist Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft. He has been a special guest performer at the Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival (Mexico), Great Guitars of Houston, The Shanghai Guitar Art Association and has also been invited to score music for the Shanghai Opera Dance Troupe. In Houston he has hosted performance showcases Concierto del Guitarra, Nylon & Steel, Guitarsonica, GuitarWorks, Night of Strings, Guitars & Wine, String Masters and Guitarisma.
"Mesmerizing....some of the best music I've ever heard."
--Kelly Wayne Lancaster, National Guitar & Mandolin Champion, USA
"Beautiful music."
--Makana, renown Hawaiian slack-key guitarist
"You've shown me a whole different world of guitar playing. Look forward to seeing you perform again soon."
--Jonathan Mitchell - Houston, Texas
"I have been listening to your music and it's really great stuff...It's been fun to listen to during work."
--Scott Erwert , Artist - StarWars.com, The Cinema of George Lucas (Abrams), etc.
"Performance is impressive and soulful.."
--Kazimir Boyle, film composer - Hannibal, Get Rich or Die Tryin, Shrek 3, Pearl Harbor, etc.
"Thanks for playing my guitar; you sounded awesome. I wish I could play like you..."
--Bert Lams, California Guitar Trio
"Your guitar solos were enchanting...it is a rare moment when TSW falls completely silent and that night we did."
--Theatre Southwest - Houston, Texas
"Love your playing! So great."
--Machan, vocalist - Sting, Pink Floyd, Hiroshima, etc
"I just got back from the Oxford Hall concert. I was blown away."
-- James Bloom - Houston, Texas
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