I'm Not A Gun

I'm Not A Gun is a collaboration between John Tejada and Takeshi Nishimoto. The two have gained worldwide acclaim with their four albums for Berlin-based City Centre Offices (CCO) and two albums for Tejada's own Palette Recordings. Tejada is an internationally-established electronic artist who has received critical acclaim the world over for his electronic productions, while Nishimoto studied the classical tradition from some of the world's premiere guitar players such as James Smith, Scott Tennant, Bill Kanengizer, and Brian Head. He also had the jazz guitar legend Phil Upchurch as his mentor.

I'm Not A Gun is an organic combination of a captured acoustic performance and experimental electronic composition.

The project expands on the ideas the two have been honing over the past few years, combining acoustic elements with electronic production to capture that magic take.

The accompanying atmospheres created mostly from processed granular guitar add a synthetic acoustic backing for the lead guitar work. The combination of the acoustic and synthetic guitar textures envelops the listener in a pulse backed by Tejada's drum playing or at times, synthetic drum programming.