Aaron Lewis: News

I am at a crossroads trying to figure out what to record next. I know for a fact that one of my recordings is going to be of songs for solo guitar that I have written about the Zodiac signs. Then comes the what next part. I have Chamber music, multiple guitar pieces, a bunch of solo guitar pieces that are not related, orchestral pieces, an opera, and several songs. There will be a newsletter coming soon with some hiking in New Mexico articles along with news about the guitar both old and new. This month is also my birth month and I will be leaving on a 3 day 2 night camping trip on my birthday June 7th. I am also working on finding a gig in Las Vegas for the end of the month because we will be there to support "Wormhole" on the 26th and 27th of June.

I have some music of mine being used in a play at the Vortex theatre in Albuquerque. The play runs Friday, Saturdays, and Sundays. Very excited will write more about it next week as I am going to see the show on Saturday.
More news coming soon. Hope you had a wonderful holiday and look forward to hearing from you.

Peace,

I am currently in the studio working on a new project of my classical guitar music. I am writing a song for each month of the zodiac and dedicating each song to a person I know who was born that month. I am going to compose each piece using techniques from the past going back 1200 years to the year 800. I am really excited and currently writing Capricorn whch is dedicated to my mother and being written in the style of JS Bach and more specifically I am writing a fugue. I have finished the exposition and will be sharing sections of it with you soon. Things are finally settling down with the gallery/performance space I opened in May with my wife so I am sitting down and doing some planning of a tour of the Southwest. This time it is going to happen as the planets have all lined up for me and I look forward to seeing you out there. I recently sold the last few copies of Gemini so it is only available now as a digital download. Make sure you get your copy of space travel. Sorry I was down for a few days tried to stay away from the computer and forgot to pay my bill. Oops. I'll talk again soon and thank you for your support.

My gig for the August 14th performance in Las Cruces at the Branigan Memorial Library has been cancelled. I have also just added five more dates around Albuquerque. Four of them are at Hastings music stores in August and then in September I will be performing at the Blackbird Buvette in downtown Albuquerque.

I am starting to record some blues tunes that I wrote many years ago. They recently creeped back into my conscience so I decided it was time to share with you. Go to my music page and check out wandering to hear more.

Hello Im finally getting back to normal. It has been a month since I have reported anything. In that time I have moved my studio, knocked down walls in our art gallery, pulled up carpet, sanded a floor by hand, played a gig, booked 4 bands for shows, taught guitar lessons, planted sod, took a 2 day break to recover from it all and here I am. Talk to you soon, Keep listening.
Peace,

My experimental guitar piece Alien Abduction has now been #1 on the experimental charts at Indie-music.com since Dec 9 of 2008. Thank you for all of your support. I love you guys

Due to the confusion on part of the music listening world as to if I was in the band Staind I am changing my performance and albums to Guitar Aaron Lewis from now on. So when you hear solo instrumental guitar music you know its me. I was never in or had anything to do with the band Staind.

Aaron found a need for an acoustic venue in Albuquerque as a musician who searched for places to play. You see its nice to sit in the corner and have glasses clanging but its fantastic to be able to have peoples undivided attention. So Aaron opened the venue in Chroma Studios Gallery the art gallery he operates with his wife Paula Manning-Lewis. We had Vernon DeAguero in Feb. We will be hosting Matt Jones in March. The rest of the years schedule is as follows
April Travis Manning
May KImo
June Uncle Nick
July Peter White
August Jeremy Mayne
September Charmed
October Duende
November Aaron

Remember every once in awhile you need to give back as well.
For more info go to http://www.chromabq.com

I now have my music available for licensing. So if you need music for any occasion keep me in mind.

I am currently booking shows in the Southwest. If you are not from the southwest and would like me to come to your town please contact me and I will do my best to come to you. Thank you for your requests without you none of this is possible.

Here is a link to a review of "space travel" http://www.indie-music.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7913

Alien Abduction is # 1 on the experimental music charts at Indie-music.com

Here they are.
1. Trouble Bay The Blue Hawaiians
2. The moon shines bright Jon Renbourne
3. Poem Taproot
4. Beans and Cornbread Louis Jordan
5. Suite no. 4 in E flat BWV 1010 JS Bach
6. Amours mi font Franconian Motet
7. Icy Blue Heart Emmylou Harris
8. Tomorrow Tomorrow The Bee Gees
9. Guitar Man Elvis Presley
10. Love 42 Stone the Crows

The key to life is an open mind

I am looking for other guitarists who would like to have a musician review their cd get in touch with me. Send me an email. Look forward to hearing from you.

This week Space Travel was requested for radio stations in California, Arizona, Florida, and Illinois. Keep listening.

Space Travel is being reviewed in issue #54 of Progression Magazine. Due in stores by the end of the month.

Be heard
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1. Road to Peace Tom Waits
2. Little Boxes Pete Seeger
3. Don't Leave me now Pink Floyd
4. Electric Guitar Talking Heads
5. Old Dans Records Gordon Lightfoot
6. Scarecrow Beck
7. Deathwish The Police
8. Approximate mood swing #2 The art of noise
9. Cry Baby Cry The Beatles
10. Orawa Amadeus Chamber Orchestra

These are my 10 favorite songs this week Check back next Saturday for another 10 best songs of the week.

The CD Release Party was as much fun as I anticipated. It was great to see all the fans that I haven't seen for a while and it was a blast talking about the composition of the songs and performing them for a wonderful audience. I hope to see you at the Albuquerque airport on Voting Day from 11-1. Those of you who made it out Thanks for coming.

I have recently recieved requests from Germany, United Kingdom and NY radion stations requesting copies of Space Travel.

I did some modifying of the alien abduction video. Go check it out on you tube. Gemini is finished and will be up soon. i will spend the better part of today making a claymation music video for Pluto.

My new Cd of original music will be available in stores starting Sept 23 2008. Ten tracks nine of them for solo guitar and a 10th for piano. Tour info coming soon.