The Oxley-Meier Guitar Project
Wednesday 6th November 2024
Soundscapes from Turkey to Brazil!
This gig features The Spin’s own Pete Oxley, alongside his long-term guitar brother, Nicolas Meier, in a band purveying the broadest range of guitar stylings in a set of “utterly captivating original music” (The Guardian).
Oxley-Meier have recorded 7 CDs together and have performed literally hundreds of concerts across the UK and Europe – including sell-outs at such diverse venues as Ronnie Scott’s, The Wigmore Hall, Musicport World Music Festival and the Cambridge Folk Festival! For this gig at The Spin, they will be fresh off the ferry, following another tour of France and Switzerland.
Pete Oxley is well known for his lyrical, compelling compositions; he is one of only a handful of British composers to have pieces included in one of Sher Music’s world-famous ‘Real Books’.
Nicolas Meier is one of the most original and brilliant guitarists on the planet (which is why Jeff Beck hired him to be in his band for 3 years of world touring!). Aside from his general virtuosity, he is one of the best exponents of fretless guitar playing anywhere.
And speaking of guitars: as a part of the objective to deliver a highly varied programme, they bring 8 -10 differing instruments with them to the gigs, including fretless nylon-string, electric 12-string, sitar guitar, 11-string fretless, steel string, 7-string nylon, acoustic 12 string…
This is an exceptional band that sounds like no other! As Ralph Towner (ECM stalwart and guitar guru of the super-group, Oregon) wrote of their recent CD:
“This album is a wonderful example of the high level of music that can be made by combining two great guitarists/composers/improvisers such as Pete and Nicolas. They have put together a feast of virtuosity, delivered with depth, wit and joy”.
Completing the band is the unbelievably dexterous bassist, Andy Hamill (heard recently at The Spin with Luis D’Agostino) – playing both acoustic and electric basses, and drummer extraordinaire, Paul Cavaciuti, also a long-term collaborator with the Oxley-Meier Guitar Project.