Concert Review: Tengger Cavalry and Felix Martin

Felix Martin (left) Scott Fermandez (right)

It was about 6:05pm and this blogger was eating Panda Express's orange chicken in a food court.

Inertia was setting in.

It was a family dinner. We were all going to some sort of show that night.

My wife and daughter were seeing Cars 3, and well, look up to see what this guy saw that night.

It was another concert where there would be no one by my side. There would be no friends to spend the evening with me.

In the end though, I was really questioning my choice to review this concert.

That's not really a strange thing. It happens to me all of the time, especially if there's no one meeting me there. So, there I sat at home, waiting to head down to Fubar on Locust while questioning myself about this.

Interview: Felix Martin Is Trying To Keep It Traditional

Felix Martin

Allow me to paint a picture for you.

I'm on vacation with my family in Disney World when I get an interesting email from Prosthetic Records.

Apparently 14 string guitar whiz Felix Martin was coming to St. Louis and if I hadn't see him "tapping his way" through town, I should check it out.

Well, as a guitarist and a fan of instrumental guitar, I was confused that I had never heard of this fellow.

I do enjoy tapping, sweeping, riffing, and any other gerund that describes instrumental guitar, but Martin is very different than most of those guys. The only contemporaries of theirs I can name would be Tosin Abasi's, Animals As Leaders. Jazz, metal, funk, fusion, they both have this in common, but instead of two guitarists and a drummer, Martin is two guitarists, and he's supported by bassist, Killian Duarte, and drummer, Phil Galatioto.

Martin and Duarte both were good enough to sit down with me and answer some questions.