Attila Vural

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Attila Vural (2007)

Attila Vural (born May 10, 1972 in Zurich ) is a guitarist from Stäfa in Switzerland .

biography

Attila Vural started his musical career at the age of 14. He played in various music projects (e.g. Saf-Inütill , Approaches ). He studied guitar playing a. a. at Claus Boesser-Ferrari . In his personal style to South American rhythms mix jazz borrowed melodies and motifs, as well as pop - melodies , which he merges with his percussive playing style to own soundscapes. In addition, Vural received important impulses from the experimental variations of the guitarist Heitor Pereira .

Inspired by Dominic Miller's CD First Touch , Attila Vural has been devoting himself increasingly since 1997 and since 2005 exclusively to the solo guitar, which he has both in 6-string and 12-string version, as well as in a 14-string custom-made in the form of a mandolin / Dobro combination plays. He currently also plays an 8-string guitar (Noldina).

Instruments

Attila Vural has been working with Zurich-based guitar maker Mitgel Noldin since 2003. So far, three instruments with very different characters have emerged from this collaboration:

The oldest model is a 14-string guitar, a Dobromandola. It is the implementation of the idea of ​​uniting two instruments: a classic dobro and an exotic mandolin . Since its two necks, which are strung differently, are built very close to each other, it enables both sound sources to be played at the same time. A wide range of timbres is created between the unusually warm dobro and the setar- like mandolin.

The second model is a 12-string guitar which, despite its rather small body, sounds very powerful in overall volume and lets the basses shine. If you play it with a pick and generate loud strummings, you will hear a sound carpet of sound. The two upper pairs of strings doubled in unison, ee and hh, benefit from this sonority.

The latest model is an 8-string guitar called the Noldina. With its octaved D and G strings it has a bell-like tone. Her strength is not only in the orchestral and accompanying play, but also unites as a solo instrument and this regardless of the playing technique, with plectrum or fingerstyle.

  • Dobromandola (Noldin)

  • 12-string (Noldin)

  • noldina (Noldin)

Discography

Solo albums

  • 2004: A Handful of Thoughts (out of print)
  • 2007: Painting a Reverie (out of print)
  • 2009: Some Place of Sounding (out of print)
  • 2010: The Last Laugh
  • 2012: Something Plays Like a Child
  • 2014: According Outside My Room
  • 2015: Moonbeams Rise as Quavers
  • 2016: Another Strumming In The Blue
  • 2016: With Dom at the Meeting Point - A Tribute to Dominic Miller
  • 2017: the Tenth Hour of Delight
  • 2018: Encounters at the Riviera
  • 2019: Harmonized but Different
  • 2020: the Rhythm's Deep Whisper

DVD

  • 2013: Not Without my Guitar

Projects

  • 1997: 2-Night (with Saf-Inütill)
  • 2012: It Might As Be Well a Movie (with Isam Shéhade)
  • 2019: Selection of Dotted Quarter Notes (with Isam Shéhade)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Vural, Attila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich