![]() ![]() When we get so intense musicality, we can reach a sublime level of musical energy - flowing, free and spill-over - wich will be part of our essence as a person. He impresses us today with his past works and current compositions, written by the movement of the iris. Becker was unable to wield a guitar and go on stage, but not to continue feeding us with his music. He was struck by a very serious neurodegenerative disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Unfortunately, fate was merciless with Jason. I was 15 years when he made me rethink my study. Prodigious, Jason Becker recorded his first album at 16 years old, with his incredible talent, and soon achieved the status of one of the greatest guitarists of the planet. ![]() I'm surrended by an incredible sense of empathy and appreciation of that contact, even if it's only eye to eye, caused by someone who was a musical reference for me and is today a human reference for all who know his story. " Becker himself is there, alive, but still using only the movements of the iris of the eyes to tell me "Hi, Kiko, how are you ?" The eyes continue to move and a speaker via Skype translates to my ears the beautiful words of praise and real knowledge of my work. On his latest blog post Guitar Player entitled "COM BRILHO NOS OLHOS" ("With Bright Eyes"), kiko Loureiro talks about his meeting with Jason Becker at Namm in California on last January : ![]()
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