Carbe and Durand

The Carbé and Durand Latin guitar duo are part of the world music group Incendio. Their fiery approach to playing the Spanish guitar excites and invigorates audiences everywhere they perform. They mix Latin rhythms and romantic melodies with heart felt blues and rock energy.

Carbe and Durand are simply excellent guitarists. Their duo album, A BRIDGE BETWEEN, is a real treat. The music is just two acoustic guitars, nothing else, and it features exquisite picking and playing. But what makes the album even more delectable are the tunes — ten melodies from classic pop and rock tunes from the past half-century plus three originals.

These two musicians also play in the popular recording and touring world-music group Incendio with Jim Stubblefield. But additionally Liza Carbe has played with the all-female Platinum-selling rock group Vixen, former Santana singer Leon Patillo, and Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsay Buckingham. Meanwhile, JP Durand has had his own rock bands Pretzel Logic and Book of Storms.

On their duet recording, Carbe and Durand do their own unique two-guitar-only instrumental arrangements of classic pop and rock songs from the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. Whether the listener knows the original versions or not does not matter, because these are great melodies that translate wonderfully to acoustic guitar.

For example, this duo does extraordinary versions of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time,” The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Town,” “Blackbird” (from The Beatles’ catalog), “Wichita Lineman” (a hit for Glen Campbell), “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” (a big chart-maker by Tears For Fears) and “Fragile” (a Sting tune). Completely enjoyable for listeners of all ages.