Owen van-Larkins: Sweet As Honey

Here’s a semi  solo performance by Owen van-Larkins with a song entitled “Honey.” I say semi solo because there’s some other stuff added along with the guitar. But who cares!

This  is just about as beautiful of a guitar composition that you will ever hear. Obviously when the keys starts to double the guitar, and then the cymbal swells before the bridge… well-  you know it’s a production and not the live playing.
Some of you might cringe but people do have other instruments on records besides guitar. And I think with seeing all these guitarists that can play drums, piano, and even two guitars at the same time… well… it has seem to turn into how much one musician can do at once. But you know, to me it’s  about what the guitarist is not doing that counts. What Owen van Larkins is not doing is straying from the melody, playing jive notes or playing sloppy.  Compositionally (is that a word?) , I think this is an inspired piece of writing. Never mind the lack of hot licks.

Musically associated with Owen van-Larkins is Ross Hunter, collectively know as  the duo “Hunter Van Larkins”:

These two incredibly talented and gifted young musicians met while studying music at Southbank College in Brisbane and soon afterwards began writing and performing their own unique brand of Celtic, Folk and Spanish flavoured acoustic guitar music. From their early compositions it was clear an extraordinary new talent had arrived on the Australian music scene. “Myriad“, their first full-length record, was recorded in 2010 at Pix Records in Conondale, Australia.

“Hunter Van Larkins are two of the most brilliant young composers I have run across in long time. Their compositions are vivid soundscapes that take you to many beautiful places,they take you to a world even more beautiful than our own. These two young men are tapping into something very big and universal with their music. I am a fan of Hunter Van Larkins and will be for a long time.” Rob Poland – Candyrat Records read whole article here