{"id":132627,"date":"2023-06-20T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=132627"},"modified":"2023-06-20T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:22:00","slug":"myriad-worlds-is-a-bold-debut-from-janet-noguera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/myriad-worlds-is-a-bold-debut-from-janet-noguera\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Myriad Worlds\u2019 Is a Bold Debut from Percussive Fingerstyle Guitarist and Composer Janet Noguera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in the May 2014 issue of AG<\/em><\/a>, we included Janet Noguera, then 19, as one of the best new acoustic guitarists under the age of 30. Since then, Noguera completed her classical guitar performance studies with Bill Coulter at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has developed her own imaginative voice on guitar\u2014not just steel-string, but electric, bass, and harp, all of which are featured on her debut album, Myriad Worlds<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a fingerstyle guitarist, Noguera plays in the percussive mold of players like Michael Hedges and Kaki King, and solo tracks like \u201cRefuge\u201d and \u201cMysterious Adventures 2.0\u201d showcase her effortless-sounding use of tapping and drum-like effects on her Lowden and Maton guitars. In Noguera\u2019s hands, these extended techniques never come across as gratuitous but always feel like an integral part of her compositions. And when she plays with more conventional technique, as on \u201cPink Clouds from a Skyscraper,\u201d with its gently rolling arpeggios infused with cascading harmonics, Noguera is just as inventive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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