Josip Pešut is a guitarist, composer, songwriter and arranger from Zagreb, Croatia.

Always having a stalwart gravity towards music, he easily opened the doors to that creative world at his teen ages, revealing the guitar as his primary expressive instrument. Besides diverse musical influences , there were vast symbolic impacts on his urge and ways to self-express, found in his very life.

Inditing ten of his songs, Josip announces a debut instrumental guitar-oriented album 'The Life' to be released at autumn, 2009. The album is a gathering of musical themes describing destruction and creation, and the struggle to remain in the balance between the both. Besides Josip on lead and rhythm guitars, the album features an outstanding bassist Tomislav Lacković, a drum veteran Nenad Borić and a radiant keboardist Tomo Bačurin. Tomo is also a producer of the album, being well known for his works at Longplay Studio and awarded with numerous awards in regional music domain.

Josip enjoys working relationships with many musicians, locally and worldwide. He gets music career mentoring from a well established virtuoso guitarist Tom Hess. The ablity to pour his inspiration within all genres of music drove him to share musical ideas with a sphere of pop, rock and metal musicians.

"Truth is what we all strive for. Sometimes on physical, and sometimes on spiritual or emotional level. Truth bears weight and liberation. I savor every bit of incessantly motion to a revelation of the ability to musically reflect all my experiences. Emotial, physical and spiritual. Therefore, the most sincere symbols of truth I can give you are my own songs."

- Josip Pešut
 

Musical influences

Nobuo Uematsu, Miki Higashino, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Steve Vai, Frank Gambale, Paul Gilbert, Shawn Lane, Buckethead, Jason Becker, Fredrik Thordendal, Richie Kotzen, Allan Holdsworth, Tony MacAlpine, Billy Sheehan, Mr. Big, Terry Bozzio, Darkane, Soilwork, Meshuggah, Cryptopsy, Vital Remains, Necrophagist, Deicide, Slipknot, KoRn, Mudvayne, Machine Head, Sepultura, Soulfly, Dry Kill Logic, System Of A Down, Static-X, Linkin Park, Stone Sour, Death, Dream Theater, Symphony X, Pantera, Metallica, Deep Purple, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Ozzy Osbourne, Frank Zappa, Michael Jackson, Alanis Morissette, W A Mozart, Ludwig von Beethoven, Chopin, J S Bach...

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