“The whole of South America is huge, but it feels like one country,” he explains. Martin and his bassist Kilian Duarte came up with the Mechanical Nations title since Martin wrote the music in Venezuela and he wanted the album’s concept to pay tribute to South America. If you listen to that track, that specific sound is really different than other guitar players.” “I also wanted to make a song for guitar that would be heavy but very different at the same time. For Mechanical Nations, one of his goals was that he tried “to put together a different sound for the guitar that’s really digestible” and make it sound not like a guitar, “but more like a band.”īillboard has the exclusive premiere of the video for the album track “Flashback,” where Martin’s inspiration was to play with a percussive sound. Martin now works with instrument makers to design the equipment he needs - the guitars have one body and two extra-wide fretboards - to play his blend of progressive metal and jazz fusion.
This is something really new, that’s why I have many guitars and still try out some ideas on the guitar.” “It was a painful process,” he recalls, “but it was helpful for my creativity.” He adds, “I’m still developing the whole idea.
“I started playing with a regular guitar, and six months after, I started playing two guitars at a time: one with straps and the other one on a table.”Īlthough it was hard to do, Martin is grateful for the experience. “It was more natural for me to play tapping like a piano, so the way I grew up playing was like that, two guitars at a time,” explains Martin. Jason Isbell, Questlove & More React to Donald Trump Indictment
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