Patrick Yandall-Samoa Soul

Artist: Patrick Yandall
Title: Samoa Soul
Genre: Instrumental Jazz 

Patrick Yandall continues to improve with each successive release. Samoa Soul is his seventh album. Yandall is talented in many ways musically however his instinct for applying the rudiments of jazz outweighs everything else. That is the one most important aspect of his makeup as a performing artist that lands him right at the top of the heap for jazz indie artists.

There is something very relevant about being in the right ‘mood’ to listen to certain music. I woke up with a splitting headache and decided to listen to some high-energy noisy guitar oriented rock after I took some aspirin; I figured in an hour that the dose of medication would make it go away, it did help, but it came roaring back with a vengeance once I started to listen to the music. What I really needed was to give Samoa Soul another spin. I know from experience how soothing and relaxing the music of Patrick Yandall can be.

Patrick uses a selective group of guitars for his compositions. He employs an Ibanez GB10, Naked Telecaster, Fender Custom Strats, Carvin Contour, Martin Acoustic, and Takamine Classical to give his sound a distinctive tone and texture for each track.