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| SA Guitar Hero Signs To Seed by Brett Schewitz - Sheer South African guitar legend, Albert Frost, has joined the already impressive stable of talented artists in the Seed catalogue. Albert is an all-round master guitarist with a passion for music that reflects happiness over any audience and for lovers of all genres - he effects success into the albums of many artists and is loved by crowds all over the world. Devils and Gods marks the release of Albert Frost's début solo studio album. Albert Frost started playing the guitar in 1989, when he was only 12. He was voted as Best Blues guitarist in South Africa by Stage Magazine. This fact, however, shouldn't let you underestimate the man's serious Rock abilities. In 1994 he started playing alongside his father, the legendary Frank D. Frost, in the awesome blues band, the Blues Broers. Frosted Orange was created in 1996 with artist Simon Orange, who played keyboard and sang vocals for Blues Broers. Albert performed with Valiant Swart from 1999 to 2003 and recorded Blou Kombuis with Koos Kombuis in 2000. In 2004, he played with the Belgian band, Blues Lee at the internationally acclaimed music festival, Pukkelpop, in Belgium. Daniel Lohues, an international blues performer from Holland, collaborated with Albert at an electrifying Oppikoppi show during the same year. Releasing his first solo live album entitled Catfish in 2002 created a new spectrum as he performs original songs and Frost-versions of the classics from Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters to name a few. Albert is a mood-man who can perform intimate solo shows and an electrifying fusion of blues and rock and roll funk with his Trio band. New Porn formed in 2003 when Albert joined forces with Arno Carstens (Springbok Nude Girls) and went gold with their outstanding début album Another Universe in May 2004. It won Albert and Arno the Best Rock Album Award at the SAMAs (South African Music Awards) in the same month they supported REM on their world tour in March 2005. Albert Frost has shared the stage with some of South Africa's finest: Vusi Mahlasela, Louis Mahlanga, Morris Goldberg, Nico Carstens, Ollie Viljoen, Theo Crous, Anton Goosen, Riku Lätti, Gerald Clark and the Springbok Nude Girls. True highlights in his career include performing with The Rolling Stones in Spain in 2007, playing a show with Oscar winner Tim Robbins in the Blues Room and being part of the REM tour in 2006; the presidential inauguration and celebration of the 10 years of democracy in 2004 to an audience of 70 000, as well as collaborating with double Grammy Award winning Malian legend, Ali Farka Toure for an exclusive function launch for priceless African manuscripts from the 14th century in Cape Town, hosted by Thabo Mbeki. He's played at the past 11 Grahamstown Festivals, 8 Oudtshoorn KKNK festivals, 6 years at Aardklop, did a 4th performance at Woodstock, Splashy Fen - and incredibly, 2009 marked Albert's 23rd Oppikoppi Festival performance. He is currently on tour in Europe with Arno Carstens where they have been supporting Simple Minds and Bruce Springsteen. Devils and Gods will be released on 24 July 2009 and a launch tour is scheduled. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Jazz News :: home page |