Prophase Rec. 
Erik Mongrain : Equilibrium (CAN,2008)****°
Erik Mongrain says he was influenced by pop/rock first, then Bach and then by guitarists Don Ross and then Michael Hedges to develop his guitar style. And he has developed a very wide range of sounds for improvising and playing. He plays taping techniques with elements of sliding, picking, finger dancing and hand clapping on the wooden body, used all at once or one by one whatever is needed, from fast melodies to moody excursions, at certain clever points using the sound of body or strings more than just before. His guitar style this way has an incredible rich spectrum which is colourful-rhythmical, and very melodic, at times like a well oiled circus machine (as some fundament) developing itself to a real literature based theatre performance (as the final result), elsewhere more improvising into the mood. Some of the techniques he used from which I have read about were a two handed lap tapping guitar technique he experiments with and some unusual tunings like his G tuning (G A D E A E from low to high).
For this recording two friends had an occasional contribution : fretless bass by Michael Manrig and some synth (?) by Bill Plummer.
