EROTIC CAKES GUTHRIE GOVAN

(2006)

Widely regarded as the most important instrumental guitar record since Steve Vai’s Passion Andwarfare – or at the very least among the few that could exist comfortably in the same sentence as such a game-changing masterpiece – Guthrie Govan’s solo debut is as dazzling as it gets. On tracks such as Waves, Sevens and Wonderfulslippery Thing, he slides and snakes his way through all kinds of exotic scales with mesmerising musicality and finesse, with not a single chink in the armour when it comes to technique. Guthrie’s genrecrossing exploits in instrumental super-trio The Aristocrats remain equally as thrilling.