Aaron Lewis: Press

AL MUSIC - A truly strange record indeed, Space Travel, from guitarist Aaron Lewis is sort of in the strange as guitar Leo Kottke school of thought. Aaron’s hypnotic instrumental six string guitar work, treated with copious amounts of strategically placed echo makes it of interest. Of note here besides Aaron’s excellent fretboard work is the CD art and packaging and quite intriguing titles descriptions and recording notes. After further investigating, some of the tracks reveal some strange electronic treatments that add unique layers of sound. A former public school guitar teacher, Lewis looks to the constellations for this album inspired by the futuristic concept of space travel. For a self-produced artist, Lewis gets a great tone and the CD is quite well recorded to boot. www.myspace.com/AaronLewis72 from MWE.com

Take a cosmic journey with Aaron Lewis as he presents the galaxy in a new, musical way that is sure to excite your ambitions in exploring the Solar System. His latest CD entitled Space Travel takes you where no man has been in his unique blend of electronic orchestrations".



Kit McGuire
KRIM FM
Air personality/Underwriting Sales Manager

excerpt from review

Lewis is a talented musician and an inspired guitarist. I love his classical style on the guitar – it's an appealing and timeless approach. I did feel like some of the cuts were unnecessarily long, like the eight minute title track. However, I appreciate his fresh approach and I realize that the soundtrack for space travel is bound to be a little different than the music Earthlings normally spin.

Artist: aaron lewis Title: Planetary Dream
Genre(s): Instrumental, New Age

Melody 6
Marketability 6
Song Structure 6
Production 7
Engineering 8
Musicianship 6
A bit slow to develop though it had it's hypnotic moments and sequences. Chords sounded a bit out of tune not as noticable on single notes. Some parts 4:07 to the end seemed to wander and felt somewhat uncertain. Other sections had cool meditative feel.
Overall Comments-Nice Sounding Guitar Well Recorded. Good touch though as noted Guitar was tiny bit out of tune. It did seem to take a while to get going. I'd suggest a bit more classy reverb if you are going to let notes hang on that long. Think ECM guitar recordings.
Sound Quality- Guitar is full and rich sounding. A little bit wetter might work even better for this approach. with an appropriate classy rich reverb space around the guitar.

Aaron Lewis' performance of his aptly titled new CD "Space Travel" was a
visionary journey of sound, taking the listener into unknown regions of
space by way of sounds mysteriously soft and ambient. Traveling through
time his compositions wove single note plucking with full throttle rhythms,
accentuated with offbeat background sounds. We found Aaron Lewis' music to
be an extraordinary and unique experience.

cathy wysocki & wayne hopkins

He's like the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. I don't know how he makes the guitar sound that way.

The guitar playing is impressive. Good playing and good use of space. Nice Imagery