Fretworx

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Fretworx
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 2008 (2008-10)
RecordedJuly 2007–June 2008
StudioJungle Room Studios
Genre Jazz fusion, instrumental guitar
Length80:00
Label Instinct
Producer Brian Tarquin
Brian Tarquin chronology
High Life
(2001)
Fretworx
(2008)
Brian Tarquin & Heavy Friends Guitars for Wounded Warriors
(2014)
Singles from Fretworx
  1. "Solidarity, Blue Wind, Spanish Harlem"

Fretworx is the fifth solo studio album by guitarist Brian Tarquin, released in October 2008 on Nu Groove/BHP Music distributed by RED Distribution. All tracks were recorded in New York, at Tarquin's Jungle Room Studios. Guest musicians on the album include Billy Sheehan, Frank Gambale, Steve Morse, Max Middleton, Chuck Loeb, Hal Lindes, Andy Timmons, and Will Ray. The album also featured bonus tracks from Steve Vai & Randy Coven, Carlos Santana and Tommy Bolin. The entire album was engineered, produced, and composed by Tarquin with the exception of the bonus tracks.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Blue Wind" (featuring Billy Sheehan and Doug Doppler) Jan Hammer 3:55
2."Spanish Harlem" (featuring Frank Gambale) Brian Tarquin 3:37
3."Towers" (featuring Steve Morse)Tarquin5:16
4."Constantinople" (featuring Will Ray)Tarquin4:32
5."86th Street" (featuring Randy Coven)Tarquin5:19
6."Solidarity" (featuring Max Middleton)Tarquin4:03
7."Dionysus" (featuring Randy Coven)Tarquin3:17
8."Manhattan" (featuring Andy Timmons)Tarquin3:52
9."Black Rose"Tarquin4:31
10."Aphrodite" (featuring Hal Lindes)Tarquin4:41
11."Jungle Room Boogie" (featuring Max Middleton)Tarquin3:56
12."Tears"Tarquin3:16
13."Yorkville" (featuring Chuck Loeb)Tarquin4:43
14."Westside Highway" (featuring James Ryan)Tarquin3:37
15."Triumphant We Stand" (featuring Steve Booke)Tarquin4:13
Bonus tracks
No.TitleMusicLength
16."Funk Me Tender" (featuring Steve Vai)Randy Coven5:17
17."Jam In E" (featuring Carlos Santana) Carlos Santana 8:33
18."Homeward Strut" (featuring Tommy Bolin) Tommy Bolin 3:00
Total length:80:00

Personnel

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