Jamie Bonk

Modern instrumental guitarist/composer Jamie Bonk debuted in 1997 having a self-titled Compact disc combining the lush, split melodics of artists like Enya and Patrick O’Hearn with amazing, heavily rhythmic worldbeat percussion. Bonk break up his childhood between your towns of Eindhoven (Holland), Winnipeg, and Toronto, where he’s still centered today; he began on piano but turned to acoustic guitar after discovering rock and roll & move and globe music, furthermore to jazz. Bonk specifically admired English punk and ska rings just like the Clash, the Jam, as well as the British Defeat, but was also significantly enamored of free of charge jazz, especially Cecil Taylor; he added traditional music to his set of influences by firmly taking lessons from guitarist Eli Kassner. Bonk spent the middle-’80s earning a qualification in music structure from Queen’s University or college, and he became a freelance studio room musician and composer, aswell as experimenting the Toronto region with rock and roll and jazz rings. He teamed up with drummer Jack port Vorvis for a while and later created H Trio with drummer Malcolm Gould, which continued to be a working device from 1990-1993. At exactly the same time, Bonk took employment like a acoustic guitar instructor in the Toronto Acoustic guitar Institute and attempted recording his personal compositions. He stop his teaching work in 1997 to focus on the second option activity, and his self-titled single debut premiered around the Bonk Productions label early in 1998.