Concert Preview - Newsleader.com
5/8/2012
French Guitarist Shares An International Sound by Bill Kramer It's pretty high praise to live up to being called "the Mozart of the guitar," as Pierre Bensusan has been characterized. The modest French-Algerian guitarist, who will grace the stage at Mockingbird on May 10, probably wouldn't call himself such a thing, though you might after hearing him play. His acoustic guit...
Pierre's US & Canada Tour starts on Wednesday...
5/8/2012
Pierre's 2012 US & Canada Tour kicks of this Wednesday with a show at Nightcat, Easton, MD The tour will take in Easton, Staunton, Charlotte, Ashvile, Decatur, Nashville, Chattoonga, Jackson, Birmingham, Takoma Park, Santa Cruz, Tiburon, Berkeley, Ashland, Portland, Everett, Seattle, Spokane, Santa Monica, Cottonwood, Scottsdale, Santa Barbara, Napa, Piermont, Fall River, West End, Cambr...
Review from Psychedelicfolk.com
4/17/2012
Pierre Bensusan’s newest album shows in his guitar style a very lyrical capacity, with beautiful songlike, wide-ranged melodic qualities, changing rapidly, fluently with a sophisticated strength, speeding up and slowing down melodically, and played in two layers of arrangements as if always playing two guitars at once. While most guitarists include the picking rhythm into the inspirations, Pie...
Interview with Pierre on Australian Radio RTRFM 92.1
4/10/2012
Listen to a recent interview Pierre gave to Australian Radio station RTRFM 92.1 http://www.rtrfm.com.au/stories/type/interviews/category/music/3696
2012 interview with Kevin Forde
4/10/2012
You can read a great interview between Pierre and freelance Writer Kevin Forde here .... http://kevinforde.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/a-fragile-balance-music-with-pierre-bensusan/ “In order for the music to come out there are two instruments, there is the musical instrument, the guitar, and there is the player. The player is also an instrument in the hands of the music. So both instruments h...
Pierre is currently touring in Australia
3/14/2012
Pierre's tour in Australia got off to a great start with five shows at Port Fairy Folk Festival!! The tour will see Pierre taking in Melbourne, Sydney, Dee Why, Perth, Fremantle, Adelaide, Margate, and Deloraine with a two day guitar workshop in Katoomba on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th March and a one day guitar workshop at The Little Theatre in Deloraine on Sunday 1st April. Visit the Tours ...
Pierres track Hymm 11 will be used in the Randy Rhoads The Quiet Years DVD
3/14/2012
I am happy to inform you that an excerpt from my piece "Hymn 11" (album "Altiplanos") will be used for the book and DVD soon to be released, about the life and art of late Rock guitarist, Randy Rhoads, who died in a plane crash in 1982. He played with Ozzy Osborne. He lived in Santa Monica and was well respected. The following web site is pretty interesting: www.ultimaterand...
Transcribing Pierre's music from DADGAD into Standard Tuning
2/1/2012
The biggest challenge when transcribing Pierre's pieces is to try to recreate the natural resonance inherent in the DADGAD tuning for guitar. It is easy to make a note-for-note standard tuning version, but it is much more difficult to imitate the fingering and technical devices that Pierre uses in DADGAD to make the music sound rich and alive. His pieces are designed to inhabit the sonorous sound-...
Bundle Offer Complete Works + Vividly
1/31/2012
Buy "The Complete Works Collector's Edition 10 CD boxset" and receive Pierre's new album, "Vividly", for free!!! Purchase here
All The Scores Of The "Intuite" Album
1/30/2012
"The Intuite Guitar Book" being now sold out, you can now purchase individual sheet music of any piece of the album. Purchase here
Watch this Pierre Bensusan playlist on Youtube
1/30/2012
A nice playlist of videos has been put together on Youtube Use the 'Next' button below to scroll through the videos or view them here on Youtube
Canadian Press Clippings
1/26/2012
"Bensusan’s music is infinitely evocative; he has the rare gift of being able to convey his own thoughts and memories in sound, while awakening the listener’s own. And, most of all, he has the ability to give those who hear him a great deal of pleasure." Alexander Varty - The Georgia Straight (CA, 2005) "The range of emotion he achieves on the instrument is only slightly shad...
