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| "Sueños Purpura" The Deep Purple´s Tribute CD Is Now Available
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November 09th 2011
"Sueños Purpura" the Deep Purple´s tribute CD is now available.
Watch "Smoke On The Water" promo clip
showing all the musicians who participated in the recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXfV-uSM4fc
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April 1st 2006
Martin Knye appeared on stage at Gustavo Napoli`s (singer and guitarrist for argentine
rock group La Renga) birthday party at a Bikers private club, performing and jamming
with the rest of the band members and guest musicians. Playing with only two fingers, Martin jammed with the guys, Pappo's Blues, Riff,
AC/DC and
Black Sabbath songs
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| "Images (Demos 1988 / 1998) Vol.1" New Cd Available |
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September 01st 2005
The new CD by Martin Knye "Images"(Demos 1988/1998) Vol.1 containing 12
previously unreleased songs from old demo tapes, is now avaliable in
remastered versions. Covering a 10 year span, including
different bands and solo recordings, the Album shows the many sides,
styles and nuances of Martin's guitar playing,including Bluesy style
guitar, Hard Rock, Metal, Neo-Classical, a 17 minute classical pieces
medley, and even a country influenced piece. To purchase "Images",
"Twister", the E-Book containing the guitar transcriptions for "Twister"
or any of the special CD packs click on Merchandise link or send an E-Mail to:
martinknye_magiar@hotmail.com ormartinknye@hotmail.com.
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| New E-Book Twister Cd Tabs |
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August 25th 2005
The E-Book containing note for note guitar transcription of all the songs
in "Twister" in both tablature and standard notation, has been released and is now avaliable on CD in PDF format.
Transcribed by Martin Knye, the book includes comments, harmonic analisis, tips, technique and
sound advice.
The CD also includes 5 bonus tracks of unreleased remastered songs that will be part of the coming records
"Images (Demos 1988/1998) Vol.1" y "Vol.2".
For more info see Merchandise section or send an E-Mail to: martinknye_magiar@hotmail.com or
martinknye@hotmail.com.
You can check a free three song sample of the book and five "Twister" Cd Song in this Official Web Site, in the
Sheet Music & Mp3 sections.
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| Martin Knye Appeared As Guest Musician in Aibarg´s live concert |
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June 20th 2005
Martin Knye appeared as a guest musician at the concerts the popular
Argentine group Airbag, held in the Gran Rex Theater on May 28th and June 19th, playing an acoustic version of Yngwie Malmsteen's
"Dreaming", with a keyboard player and Patricio Sardelli, Airbag's guitar player andsinger, who took care of the vocals in this song. A long time
relation of frienship and family, relates Martin to the band Airbag, specially to their guitarrist Patricio Sardelli, to whom Martin is one
of his musical and guitar influences.
Given this fact, and the importance of the concerts, Martin accepted the true and warm invitation, and
joined the Airbag show to play this version of Malmsteen's song, even
though the enormous technicall limitation of his left hand, a product of
the focal dystonia that the guitarrist suffer since more than 4 years
ago, and forced him offstage in late 2002.
Playing the guitar with the
experience and skill that a 20 years career gives, Martin Knye performed
the song with efficiency and profesionalism, even playing a small solo
using his index and middle finger much in the vein of Dyango Reinhard,
and Patricio Sardelli, an excellent and promising guitar player, sanged
with all his skill and talent, resulting in an excellent acoustic
version of "Dreaming". The concerts were sold out.
On a different
level, the transcription book of the Magiar record "Twister", including
note for note tablatures and standard notation of all of the songs and
guitar solos from the album, coments, technicall and sound
specifications, and transcribed by Martin Knye himself, will be released
and
for sale, first in digital PDF format, during the course of July,
becaming the first book of this kind in the Argentine market, in the
style of the releases of EE.UU's Hal Leonard or Cherry Lane.
You
can check a free three song sample of the book in this Official Web Site,
in the Sheet Music section.
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| Magiar Sounds In http://www.hardrockin80s.com |
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December 8th 2003
Three songs from the "Twister" album were included in the requests list of songs,
of the USA internet Hard Rock in 80's. Here's what Mike Grindstaff, DJ of the
radio, said while listening to the song "Twister" and it's preceding guitar solo
"Electro-Vivace" for the first time:
"Hi Martin, Went and checked out the website. Very nice. I downloaded Twister,
the only one I will get until I get to work where I have high speed instead of
this damn dialup. So I´m sitting here listening to Twister and please....pardon
my friend....but...holy fucking shit! This song is incredible man, all I can say
about it. I can definattly hear Yngwie and Van Halen in the opening of it and all
through the song.
I´m just about speechless and that takes alot! Just freaking
incredible man, freaking incredible! You bet I will get this on the station
Monday when I get to work and it will be up for requests right then, in fact
I´m going to play it as soon as I get it uploaded... Damn man, I have one hell of
a sound system on my Pc (sub woofers, tweeters and all) and my condo is shaking!
Probably piss off the neighboors since its nearly 2am here but who gives a damn.
This song just kills.
I love how it goes into the song after the minute plus long
intro. Damn...I cant say enough about it man..I dont give a damn if it is in
spanish.
Thanks again for letting me know about this and hearing this song.
All I can do is sit, listen to it and shake my head...damn this is good.
I´ll let you know about the other songs and when I get those up as well.
Take care man.
Grinder.
www.hardrockin80s.com
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November 7th 2003
In 1838 Robert Schumann wrote:
"All the music is complete and alive within me, so that I wish
to effortlessly breathe it out, but now
I can hardly bring it forth; I trip over
one finger with the other.
This is truly frightening and has already caused me
much pain."
Hand injuries in musicians are not a new thing, great virtuosos along the time
had seen their careers stoped and ended abruptly for this reason.
Robert Schumann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Glenn Gould, Leon
Fleisher, Gary Graffman, Michel Beroff and David Leisner among others, had
shared at least two things: they were brilliant virtuosos of their instruments,
and they suffered a strange problem that affected the coordination of their hands.
That condition of neuromuscular origin, is known today as "Focal Hand Dystonia",
or "Musician´s Cramp", and here is no known cure for it.
In May of 2002, and after having consulted during one and a half years, different
professionals in eastern and western therapies, Martin Knye was attended by
a hand specialist Doctor.
His growing and unexplainable coordination problem
in his left hand, was finally diagnosed as Focal Hand Dystonia. With a clearly
bad prognosis, and very few probabilities of recovery, he was advised to try
a new rehabilitation therapy, designed for musicians suffering from this condition.
After three months of hard work, in which Knye was forced to stop playing live,
and without beeing in better shape, he decided to get back onstage with his
band Magiar, playing a number of concerts between September of 2002 and January
of 2003, including four shows with Magiar, and two Yngwie Malmsteen´s tribute
concert. The very fact of having played through these shows in that condition
is almost a prowess, and can only be atributed to his great technicall dexterty,
and to his talent and experience. Martin played during these concerts with his
little finger (pinky) practically inutilazed, and his ring finger in very bad
shape.
At the present moment Martin Knye is disabled to keep on playing guitar,
because the condition of his left hand has deteriorated, but he keeps on teaching
to his many pupils, and fighting against this situation trying to find his way
out of it.
Only time will tell if he will be able to triumph, were the
overwhelming mayority didn't...
"In August of 2000, during the recording sessions for "TWISTER"
Magiar's first album, I started to experience the deterioration of some
unexplainable coordination problems in my left hand, that had started an
undetermined amount of time before, (I really can't precise when), and at that time,
I didn't know why or what was going on.
Given that I've spent more than 20 years of
my life playing guitar, and I have a considerable amount of professional
experience, I kept on playing, even though the problem still was there, and
getting worse. I thought it was a normal fluctuation of performance, or maybe
I was too tired, or that I needed to practice more, or on the contrary, to
practice less, or a bad moment etc, etc, hoping that my hand would get back to
normal sooner or later.
By middle 2001, I was sure that something that had
nothing to do with the former was happening, and that something was wrong with
my hand, so I decided to seek help. Without even knowing how to start to explain
what was happening to me, I begun to coment my problem with some friends and
coleagues, and started to consult specialists on different therapies. I could only
tell them that I was loosing my left hand ability to play the guitar, slowly but
surely, without an obvious reason, and without any pain whatsoever, it simply was
fading away!, and the problem only seemed to appear when I was playing, other than
that my hand was allright.
Finally in may of 2002, and after being highly
recomended, a Hand Specialist Doctor, and an authority particulary in the
musician's hands injuries field, gave me the right diagnosis, it was:
Focal Hand Dystonia, or loss of muscular motor control to perform correctly those
movements, caracterized by involuntary muscular contractions, that makes the
fingers curl into the palm of the hand (the ring and pinky in my case), and the
middle finger extend outwards in a compensatory movement. This makes playing,
gradually more and more difficult, and finally imposible.
In that moment, the problem of knowing what was going on with my hand ended,
and another one started, a real nightmare.
Lamentabily, there's no known or
specific cure for this condition, and its treatment is very difficult, and given
its suposedly neurologic origin, there's very little knowledge about what causes
it. Is asociated with the repetitive finger work, and the incredible coordination
and precision, that high performance musicians inevitabily need, to perform their
repertories.
It almost exclusively happens to classical soloists
(mostly pianists and violinists, and also classical guitarrists), and usually
appears between the 30 and 40 years old musicians.
A considerable amount of
musicians have suffered from this condition, and almost invariabily has
ended their performing careers, maybe the most famous case in history was
Robert Schumann, but there are a lot of more recent ones, notabily classical
pianist Leon Fleisher's case.
Considered to be one of the most talented
pianists of this century, he made his debut as a soloist at 6 years old, and
was forced to stop playing at 35, because of this injurie. His problem became
public, along with the case of another respected pianist: Gary Graffman, after
an article titled
"When a pianist´s fingers refuse to obey", appeared in The New York
Times, stirring the world of classical music performers, opening the doors to a
lot of musicians around the world, to go to their doctors showing almost the same
"misterious" symptoms, a painless loss of fine motor control in their hands.
After these cases, and more precisely on 1982 the "Performing Arts Medicine"
was created, a group of professionals in different fields, specialized in treating
injuried musicians.
I'm sure many of you, musicians and not musicians, are
familiar with a word like "Tendinitis", just to name perhaps the most common of
instrumentalist's injuries, problems like this and other similar ones, share
some symptoms like pain, usually localized in some part of the body, they have
a fisiologic origin, and some times they are product of a forcefull and incorrect
way of playing an instrument. One way or another there are more treatable, because
they know WHERE is the problem. Focal Dystonia, is still an unsolved mystery
for Doctors, as well as for musicians, and curiously enough it seems to happen
only in performers with a very high level of skill.
It would be impossible to put in words, what is like for a musician who has
played almost all his life, to go through this situation, to loose his most
profound expressive vehicle, and to face this incredibily difficult barrier
and try to pass over it, if we sum up that this injurie in Argentina is almost
completelly unknown, the landscape is devastating.
I would like to express my
gratitude to those who had shown interest in my situation, and had offered me
their help and support: friends, colleagues, pupils, fans and every person that
has comunicated with me one way or another. I'm not defeated yet, and I won't
stop fighting to find my way out of this situation, I intend to keep on playing
for years to come, and I know that sooner or later I will be back on stage.
The best news I received last year during the course of this nightmare, is that
classical guitarrist David Leisner, has COMPLETELLY RECOVERED of this situation
after 10 years of suffering from this condition on his right hand, it was long,
it was tough, but he triumphed over it. Is one of the few and rare cases that I
know of for sure, of total recovery, I'm in touch with him via e-mail, and he is
very nice and has offered me some advice that I'm trying out, will see what's
going to happen. I hope you like my new web site, and expect your comments.
Once again thank you, and hope I'll see you soon playing again!".
Martin Knye
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