Jacques Stotzem • Handmade

These are wonderful melodies, dreamy, even a bit pensive and always a touch melancholic.

Jacques Stotzem’s “Handmade” presents euphoniously sophisticated fingerstyle inspired from blues and jazz. Stotzem scored outstanding successes with his arrangements of rock classics by the Stones, Nirvana, U2, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, as well as a highly-acclaimed homage to the Irish blues-rock guitarist Rory Gallagher. Now, the Belgian master guitarist is once again forging his own musical path and impressively girding his reputation as an imaginative composer and one of the most soulful and accomplished fingerstyle guitarists of our time. He has done so with great musical clarity and with a recording quality that other guitarists would probably envy.

This is an album that will provide pleasure and let you daydream to the last harmony and note.