I'm Not a Gun

John Tejada是一位成功的舞曲DJ和制作人，并拥有自己的唱片厂牌“Palette”，日本人Takeshi Nishimoto则是一个活跃在洛杉矶用定制七弦吉他进行演奏的艺术家，真是奇妙的组合。专辑里面的作品徘徊于Indie电子，融合，后摇，world种种风格之间，感觉舒缓放松，整体偏重于吉他演奏，编配仍旧是摇滚乐队的感觉（当然里面还夹杂了某些民族弹拨乐器），而电子则更像是陪衬，但是制造出的效果绝不亚于其他电子专辑。他们签约的City Centre Offices唱片厂牌在他们的主页是这样介绍他们的“delicate electronics and free-floating acoustic instruments”想来真是贴切。不知道国内的吉他同行听过这样一张专辑后会不会有点小小的想法，想要走流行路线的，总得加点时尚电子成分吧。想要远离人间的，更得追求新，奇，快了，呵呵。

I'm Not A Gun is a collaboration between John Tejada and Takeshi Nishimoto, and this is their first release for the Palette label. The two have gained worldwide acclaim with their three albums for Berlin-based City Centre Offices (CCO). Tejada is an internationally-established electronic artist who has received critical acclaim the world over for his electronic productions, while Nishimoto studied the classical tradition from some of the world's premiere guitar players such as James Smith, Scott Tennant, Bill Kanengizer, and Brian Head. He also had the jazz guitar legend Phil Upchurch as his mentor. I'm Not A Gun is an organic combination of a captured acoustic performance and experimental electronic composition. Mirror marks Palette Recordings 52nd release as well as I'm Not A Gun's fourth full-length release. After many years recording for CCO, Tejada and Nishimoto bring the project home, where they had always envisioned it should be, on Tejada's own Palette Recordings. Mirror expands on the ideas the two have been honing over the past few years, combining acoustic elements with electronic production to capture that magic take. This album features more of Nishimoto's acoustic 7-string guitar work than ever before, reflecting his solo effort Monologue, as well as his work on 7-string electric guitar. The accompanying atmospheres created mostly from processed granular guitar add a synthetic acoustic backing for the lead guitar work. The combination of the acoustic and synthetic guitar textures envelops the listener in a pulse backed by Tejada's drum playing or at times, synthetic drum programming.