“The guitar I learned to play on isn’t worth much, but I’ve played it at thousands of concerts and hundreds of recording sessions”: He’s performed on over 500 albums. Now Marcus Deml is making breathtaking guitar instrumentals under his own name

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If you’re a fan of whammy bar-abusing blues-rock instrumentalists like Jeff Beck and Michael Lee Firkins, you’ll love Pure, the new album from Prague-born, Hamburg-based guitarist Marcus Deml.

Its nine tracks benefit from a smorgasbord of six-string brilliance, crossing through a variety of sounds, styles and techniques without ever abandoning its own prevailing sense of identity.