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| NickName: | atanasshishkov |
| Profile Type: | Artist |
| Music Genre: | Jazz/Rock |
General Info
| Name: | Atanas Shishkov |
| Band Name: | Spiraless |
| Website: | www.atanasshishkov.com |
| Website: | www.spiraless.com |
| Influences: | - Greg Howe - Allan Holdsworth - Frank Gambale - Al Di Meola - John McLaughlin - Scott Henderson - Brett Garsed - Vinnie Moore - Tony Macalpine - Jason Becker - Richie Kotzen - Stanley Jordan - TJ Helmerich - Mike Stern - Pat Metheny - Larry Carlton - Lee Ritenour - John Scofield - Steve Vai - Joe Satriani - Steve Morse - John Petrucci - Chick Corea - Bob James - Stanley Clarke - Jean-Luc Ponty - Vangelis |
| City: | Plovdiv |
| Country: | Bulgaria |
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| About: | Atanas Shishkov was born in Kardzhali, Bulgaria. He has started to play the guitar at the age of 11. Atanas has took his first private lessons by classical guitar in the early of 90`s. Later he joined in a band and he has many performances in his hometown. Inspirated of Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen, Atanas decided to quit the band and to start exploring the guitar instrumental music. In the middle of 1994 he has recorded his first demo project "On The Threshold". Atanas has continued to improve his playing exploring many "Shrapnel" shredders such as Greg Howe, Vinnie Moore, Jason Becker, Tony Macalpine, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Michael Lee Firkins and more, as well as the music of Steve Vai and Steve Morse. Atanas also continued to record his own new guitar instrumental experiments. In the summer of 1997 Atanas joyned in a band performing jam-sessions in a jazz-rock club in his hometown. He began to explore a lot of jazz players such as Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, Frank Gambale, Scott Henderson and many jazz bands as well. His next recordings has more jazz and fusion orientation. August 2002 - Atanas recorded his debut album "Flying Colours". Since the begin of 2003 Atanas is a guest columnist with his own guitar lessons in several guitar websites - Chops From Hell, Insane Guitar, iBreathe Music, The Shred Zone, Shredaholic, Fusion Site. Since September 2003 his album "Flying Colours" is available for sale in Fossil Records` website. February 2004 - Guitar9.com presented Atanas Shishkov in The Undiscovered page as "Master of Bulgarian Shred"! September 2005 - Atanas` acoustic album "The Long Road" is also available on CD! December 2006 - Atanas is working with his new band above the new project SPIRALESS! August 2007 - SPIRALESS` debut album is out! April 2008 - Atanas participated in "Guitar Idol" - 2008 competition! June 2008 - Atanas participated in Greg Howe`s annual contest "Play For Me"-2! 2010 - Atanas recorded solo guitars in 2 songs for Sergey Boykov`s debut album! Sergey is a keyboard wizard, who plays in Shadow Cry many different projects 18.09.2010 - Atanas participated in the international guitar event "Ziua Chitarelor-3". He plays in the guitar contest behind an awesome judje - Stuart Hamm, Jennifer Batten, Dave Martone, Michael Lee Firkins, Andreas Oberg. Currently Atanas is working above the second album with SPIRALESS! |
| My Gear: | Tom Anderson Guitarworks, J-Station amplification, Regent H-30 Amplifire, Elixir strings, Elixir and Vovox cable, |
