Oscar Lopez
Heat
The Story
2002 Juno Award Winner for Best Instrumental Album ("Armando's Fire"), guitarist Oscar Lopez' first album for Narada is entitled "Heat". His Juno-nominated "Dancing On The Moon Contigo" earned wide acclaim and a buzz throughout North America. Now comes an album of excitement, passion, energy - "Heat"! "It's all from the heart, no matter what I play. Everything is in the heat of the moment,"states Lopez. "I am completely devoted to my guitar - she has been my lady for a long time." Fellow musician Martin Simpson once said, "Oscar Lopez is the only guitarist I know who can actually make an acoustic nylon-string guitar scream." One listen to tracks such as "Desperate Love", "Fire And Fury" and "Fiesta Latina" will have you jumping on the Oscar Lopez party train as well.
The Music
| 04:18 | Forgive Me | Instrumental |
| 04:20 | Thinking Of You | Instrumental |
| 03:17 | Sentimiento | Instrumental |
| 04:14 | Fire And Fury | Instrumental |
| 03:46 | Fiesta Latina | Instrumental |
| 03:16 | Distancia | Instrumental |
| 02:49 | Those Times | Instrumental |
| 04:23 | Step By Step | Instrumental |
| 03:17 | The Way I Am | Instrumental |
| 05:04 | The Flight Of The Flamingo | Instrumental |
| 03:34 | Milonguita | Instrumental |
| 04:39 | Morenita | Instrumental |
| 03:42 | My Heart In Rio | Instrumental |
| 03:46 | Tornado De Amor | Instrumental |
| 04:04 | Desperate Love | Instrumental |
The Artists
| Oscar Lopez | Guitar, Percussion on "Fire And Fury", "The Way I Am", "Step By Step", "Tornado De Amor" and "Thinking Of You", Production, Arrangements, Mixing |
| Brent Gubbels | Electric and Acoustic Basses |
| Gustavo Estrada | Percussion |
| Vince Ditrich | Drums |
| Michael Simpson | Piano, Keyboards |
| Oscar Nieto | Castanets, Palmas |
| Don Pennington | Production, Mixing |
| Rich Denhart | Executive Production |
| Richard Champagne | Engineering, Mixing |
| Francois Macchiagodena | Engineering Assistance |
| Leo Seppanen | Engineering Assistance |
| Trevor Sadler | Mastering |
| David Gray | Photography |
| Connie Gage | Design |
| Recorded and mixed in March, 1997 at Blue Wave Productions, Ltd., Vancouver, BC.
Mastered at Narada Media. |
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