Album Liner Notes
Electric Warrior Acoustic Saint
Electric Warrior Acoustic Saint is not a fusion sideman album in the usual sense. It is a Cordola compositional collage with multiple bassists and drummers credited by track, and Jeff Berlin's name lands on one specific standard performance near the end of the CD sequence.
Overview
Track-index discipline matters here. Brian Bromberg is the dominant electric bassist across the metal-and-fusion episodes, while Berlin steps in for the Kern standard with a different guitar partner than Cordola himself.
The session geography is split on the release page: Roger Mielke records acoustic guitars at Micro Note Studios in Pasadena, while Dave Jahnsen records, engineers, and mixes the electric-guitar sessions at Lab B in Huntington Beach.
The album's printed boast—no keyboards, synthesizers, or guitar synthesizers—sets expectations for how the arrangements were built, even when the album title promises both 'electric' and 'acoustic' identities.
Quick Snapshot
- Released in 1991 on Intense Records as CD FLD9274 (US and Europe) and cassette FLC9274 (US) on Discogs.
- The program runs twenty-six short and long movements, including originals, Mozart and Gershwin references, and a closing 'Amazing Grace.'
- The US CD credit block on Discogs lists Jeff Berlin on bass for track 25 only, with Brian Bromberg covering the other listed electric-bass indices and Joe Diorio on guitar for that same track.
Single-track Jeff credit
Discogs documents Berlin on bass for CD index 25 only, identified in this entry as 'All The Things You Are.'
Brian Bromberg's larger footprint
Bromberg holds the bass chair on the other indexed electric-bass tracks in the same credit block.
Dual-studio production
Pasadena acoustic tracking and Huntington Beach electric tracking are both named on the US CD entry.
Listen For
Angry Candy
One of the long-form electric episodes that defines the record's neo-classical metal flavor.
All The Things You Are
Jeff Berlin's credited performance, with Diorio on guitar and Mary on drums in the Discogs track-index listing.
Amazing Grace
The hymn closes the album after the standards and sketches that precede it.
Track Listing
- 1. Intro (A New Beginning) — 1:19
- 2. Behold This Dreamer Cometh — 1:28
- 3. Angry Candy — 6:50
- 4. Looney Tunes — 1:08
- 5. Ish Kabibill — 0:16
- 6. When Shiloh Comes — 3:26
- 7. Birenbau — 0:19
- 8. Farbage Valves — 1:22
- 9. Mariage Of Figaro (Sort Of) — 5:46
- 10. Slappy White — 2:28
- 11. Zulu Jam — 0:43
- 12. Shadows Over My Heart — 4:34
- 13. Neesh Taps — 0:44
- 14. Jalapeno Man — 1:58
- 15. Django — 0:45
- 16. Hungry Hallow — 2:25
- 17. Plymouth Rock — 5:54
- 18. Sadako — 1:59
- 19. Jabberwocky (The Shadow Gang) — 5:28
- 20. Vindaloo — 4:09
- 21. Fripp — 0:40
- 22. Summertime — 3:18
- 23. Echo Boy — 5:11
- 24. Groom Lake — 0:40
- 25. All The Things You Are — 6:47
- 26. Amazing Grace — 1:33
Musicians
- Lanny Cordola: producer; electric, acoustic, classical guitar; mandolin; sitar; drum machine
- Jeff Berlin: bass (track 25)
- Brian Bromberg: bass (tracks 9, 12, 17, 19, 23); acoustic bass (track 6, stand-up)
- Ken Mary: drums (tracks 2, 9, 12, 17, 19, 23, 25)
- Joe Diorio: guitar (track 25)
- James Christian: vocals (tracks 12, 22)
- Scott Breadman: percussion; shaker, talking drum (track 6); timbales (track 19)
- Mahatma Duffy: drums (track 11)
- Dave Jahnsen: recorded by, engineer, mixed by (electric guitars, Lab B, Huntington Beach, CA)
- Roger Mielke: recorded by, engineer (acoustic guitars, Micro Note Studios, Pasadena, CA)
- Brian Gardner: mastering (Bernie Grundman Mastering Studio, Hollywood, CA)
- Ed McTaggart: art direction
- Joe Potter: design
Technical Credits
- Label: Intense Records FLD9274 (US CD, 1991)
- Mastering credit on US CD: Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering; matrix note references Nimbus
- Liner declaration on Discogs: no keyboards, synthesizers, or guitar synthesizers on the album
- Additional credited colors: tabla, sarangi, scratches, Nigerian drum rhythms, Japanese drums (see Discogs for track-index detail)