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OUT NOW!!! "The Legend of Ganesha" Guy's new album has been officially released on the 26th of March 2009 on UK record label MG Music. It's the stunning completion of his successful trilogy inspired by India and tells the story of Ganesha, the Hindu God with the elephant head. The album features guest solo's by highly acclaimed artists Medwyn Goodall and Sangit Om (Stefan Petersilge). You can listen to mp3-samples and order HERE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
News Update: 07-01-2010"WORSHIP" VOTED TOP SONG OF 2009 The listeners on New Age Stars radio/Live 365 choose Guy's song Worship as "The Top Song of 2009". Worship is the opening track of Guy's latest album The Legend of Ganesha. Guy would like to say: A Big Thank You to all fans who voted on his track! See a post about it here NEW ALBUM IN THE MAKING! It's time to reveal some exciting new developments! After having released three World-Fusion styled albums, Guy has decided to do something completely different this time. He is currently working on a Chill Out/Lounge album. Just like World-Fusion, this musical style has his interest for a long time and now the time has come to actually do something with it. When the album is completed, the work will be lounged using the band name "Cocktail Connection". The fans of his World-Fusion styled work don't need to worry, because Guy will also continue producing this style in the future. Actually, it might be very possible that the fans will also like "Cocktail Connection", because Guy's lush sound will be continued also in this project. The music of "Cocktail Connection" will be characterized by a relaxed, soulful atmosphere, using (to name a few) chill-out drums and percussion, lush pads, rhodes piano's, wah-wah guitars, many seventies influences and soft, jazzy riffs here and there. Curious yet? More info, such as album title, will be revealed as soon as the album comes closer to completion ;-) PRESS ARTICLE For the Dutch fans: Following Guy's new album release, a press article appeared in two major Dutch newspapers: "Limburgs Dagblad" and "De Limburger" on the 12th and 14th of March. Click here to read the article. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous NewsTwo collection-albums have been released recently that includes some of Guy Sweens' tracks. The first one is World Collection 2 - Spirit & Rhythm released by MG Music. This album contains the tracks "Arrows of Desire" and "Surrounded by Nymphs" (taken from the album Kamadeva) and "In Search of the Truth" (taken from the album Gaya of Wisdom). The second release is Music That Illuminates Your Live Vol.1 released by Gemini Sun Records. This album contains the track "Mahayana" (taken from the album Om). Mahayana has been written, produced, arranged and recorded by Guy Sweens with solo's by Medwyn Goodall (guitar & pan-pipes) and Terry Oldfield (Bansuri-flute). Buy online: Music That Illuminates Your Life Volume 1 Buy online: World Collection 2 Spirit&Rhythm   Listen to Mahayana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kamadeva reached position nr. 11 in Top 100!Kamadeva reached position nr. 11 in the U.S.A. New Age Radio Chart of February 2008! Click here to view the Chart. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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About Guy Guy was born in the South-East of the Netherlands. He showed much interest in music as a child and was spending time listening to pop and classical music throughout his youth. His grandfather inspired Guy to play the piano and it was at this time he discovered how he enjoyed composing music by himself.When Guy reached the age of 16, he found out about a rarely new technique in the pop music scene that was and still is very popular: (re)mixing of already existing records. By coincidence, Guy discovered the weekly broadcast remixes of world famous Dutch remixer/producer Ben Liebrand in 1986. Inspired by Liebrand's remixes, Guy started to make remixes himself. A room in front of his bedroom in his parents' house became his home-studio. In that time, Guy frequently worked together with a schoolmate who was regularly working as a DJ in a club in Valkenburg. The equipment became more professional and Guy bought his first synthesizer: the Yamaha DX-21 (little brother of the famous DX-7). With this synthesizer, Guy was now able to add new instruments (like bass-lines) to the original track which made the remix more attractive. Almost all of Guy's remixes were broadcast on Belgium radiostation "Maasvallei Radio" in a show called "Golfbreker" by DJ Raoul Morreau. On many occasions, Guy went to Maasvallei Radio to announce his new remix and to give a short interview about how he made the remix. The remixing went on until the beginning of the 1990's. Guy found out that, although remixing was very much fun, he was still just re-arranging music that was made by somebody else. Now it was time to create his own music and so he started to compose dance music. On frequently basis, Guy worked together with another schoolmate who owned two synthesizers. Their joined forces resulted in some very nice dance-tracks that were also broadcast on Maasvallei Radio. In 1993, Guy switched to a brand new and totally different musical style called New Age Music. He already discovered this music in 1987, while listening to a radio-show called "Het is te Hoopen" by DJ Jan ten Hoopen. The first New Age song Guy ever listened to was "Dawnlight" from Karunesh. After hearing this song on the radio, he quickly wrote down it's title and went to an esoteric shop in Maastricht where he bought the complete album. From that moment on, Guy discovered more very good New Age and World-Music artists and bought a lot of cd's in this genre.  The year 2000 became a turning point in Guy's musical career. From now on he decided to concentrate only on composing New Age and World-Fusion Music. Guy preferred composing music in this genre, because it is more melodic, varied and everlasting than Dance music. New Age and World-Fusion gave him much more freedom to express himself without the obligation to constantly keeping up with new musical trends, which is always the case in the Dance scene. Guy's most important inspirational sources are traditonal Asian and Indian music, the moody style of Jazz, pop- and classical music, but also the Middle-Ages and the music of that time. All these musical styles have the ability to express all kinds of feelings. Guy's music can best be defined as vibrant, passionate, spiritual and full of melodic warmth with gentle rhythm. It is a fusion of western and exotic styles with a clear Indian influence. In order to create these textures, Guy uses many different instruments from all over the world, combined with modern synthesis and technology. Some highlights of Guy's career:2003: Guy started his own record label "Rivendel Records Limited" for the release of his first cd-album "The Passion for Music". This album was distributed on a small scale and was later on used as a demo.2005: Guy became a professional artist, composer and producer. He won the MG Music New Talent Competition and signed a record deal with MG Music later that year. MG Music is a record company based in the UK and owned by highly acclaimed New Age and World-Fusion artist Medwyn Goodall and his wife Wendy. In Spring 2005, Guy released his first album with MG Music "Gaya of Wisdom". This album tells the story of Gautama Siddharta who became the Buddha. 2006: Guy participated in a cd-project called "OM" and wrote and produced the track "Mahayana" featuring Medwyn Goodall on guitar and pan-pipes and Terry Oldfield (brother of Mike Oldfield) on the Bansuri-flute. 2007: The release of "Kamadeva", Guy's follow-up to Gaya of Wisdom which tells the story of the Hindu god of love. 2007 was also the year that Guy's albums were released in the USA via Californian based record label Gemini Sun Records. 2008: "Mahayana" proved to be a big succes and became the opening track on a collection cd called "Music That Illuminates Your Life", released by Gemini Sun Records. In the same year, three of Guy's tracks also appeared on a collection cd called "World Collection 2 - Spirit & Rhythm" released by MG Music. 2009: Brings the final chapter of Guy's India-Trilogy with the album "The Legend of Ganesha". This album tells the legendary story of Ganesha and features guest performances by Medwyn Goodall on guitar, mandolin and pan-pipes and Sangit Om on Bansuri-flute. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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LinksIf you like Guy Sweens' music, the links below might be also interesting for you: This is the website of record company MG Music, the new and exciting voice of the new age. Founded, owned and directed by highly acclaimed New Age artist Medwyn Goodall and his wife Wendy. This is also the record company that releases Guy's music. www.mgmusic.ltd.uk If you are looking for a professional Advertising & Design company, we can highly recommend Beeldkracht Zuid, based in the Netherlands. They have also designed this website. www.beeldkrachtzuid.nl Another favourite artist is Sangit Om (Stefan Petersilge). Visit him at his own web-site: www.sangitom.de Both Sangit Om and Karunesh made their breakthrough on the Nightingale label in Germany. Karunesh is now releasing albums on the Real Music label. You can visit him there by clicking the "complete catalog" button in the main screen. www.realmusic.com Lawrence Lougheed is a classically trained musician of contemporary instrumental music. His music is warm, romantic and subtile. www.lawrencelougheed.com Radio Rijnwoude is a Dutch radiostation that broadcast a show called "Time Trek". It's a great show presented by Jelke Bethlehem and provides the listener every sunday evening with a selection of New Age and World music from many different artists. Guy is one of them :-) This website is in Dutch! www.timetrek.nl Pay a visit at the offical website of Asher Quinn (formerly known as Asha and Denis Quinn). Asher's musical style is truly unique and of profound beauty. www.asherquinn.com Serge Kozlovsky supports and promotes New Age music on a large scale by making cd-reviews, interviews and articles. You will find a lot of information on his website: http://mkmk.com/kozlovsky Visit the new website of New Age artist Steve Orchard: www.steveorchardmusic.co.uk For those of you who are interested in Medieval and Renaissance music, this might be a very interesting site: www.pbm.com/~lindahl/music.html And what about a web-site with lots of Middle Ages internet links? Check it out! www.wideopendoors.net/middleages/websites.html Enjoy! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Order infoFor ordering cd-albums directly at the record company, click the image as shown below and you are brought to the website of MG Music (UK). This is the record company that releases Guy's cd-albums and where you can order online in secured mode. You can also order at the following internet online-stores*: United Kingdom:   U.S.A.   Netherlands:    Canada: France: Germany: Japan: Also available at the following Download-sites:   (* Please keep in mind that it could be possible that one or more cd's of Guy Sweens are temporarily not available at one of the above mentioned stores. In that case, simply try another store or come back later and try again.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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