TQM Recording Co.

Guitarist Sam Dickinson is back with a sophomore album, and this time he let the band stay home. Gemini Duets was envisioned as a mainly solo guitar album “with a few overdubs”, but quickly grew into a broader project offering dense contemporary soundscapes, multi-tracked duets, and unaccompanied vignettes. This exciting new music was captured at the historic Sharon Temple in Aurora, Ontario by Ron Skinner, and marks Dickinson’s first release with TQM Recording Co.

Sam Dickinson has appeared on stages across North America and Europe. He is gaining notoriety for his contemporary yet grounded approach to jazz guitar in Toronto, where he currently resides. Alongside solo, trio, and quartet endeavors, Dickinson is a busy sideman, adding electric and acoustic guitar to countless groups across Canada.

Effects and electronics have been part of Dickinson’s sound since he first began playing guitar, and Gemini Duets has a healthy helping of these sounds without them taking away from the notes and song-forms. Sam described this mandate as “I’ve always been interested in how differently I play depending on my instrument and setup of choice. That said, I’m amply careful not to stray from core of the music itself just to ‘experiment’ with new gadgets and gizmos.”