Guitar virtuoso Dan Patlansky to rock Emperors Palace Barnyard

Dan Patlansky will be performing at Emperors Palace Barnyard on May 30 for the launch of his brand new album, Perfection Kills.

This South African guitar virtuoso has already enjoyed numerous highlights in his career, including being the support act for Joe Satriani’s Shockwave 2015 European tour.

His new album was released worldwide on February 2. The album is the follow-up to 2016s critically acclaimed Introvertigo, which was voted #1 Blues Rock Album in the world by Blues Rock Review USA, and his ninth studio offering.

His latest album was recorded at Scherzo Productions, a recording studio in Dan’s hometown of Pretoria.

Dan produced the album himself, something he hasn’t done in years.

“I learnt so much working with Theo Crous, who was the producer on my previous two albums, Dear Silence Thieves and Introvertigo.

“I worked on pre-production and songwriting with Theo on a couple of the tracks for Perfection Kills and applied what I learnt to the recording and production process of the album,” said Dan.

He said Perfection Kills is all about his vision of making a record that still makes the songwriting a priority as in the past.

“The final product delivers a far more real and organic result.”

He started writing songs and recording the new album in 2016.

“I got together with the band once I had basic ideas and messed about with them in a rehearsal space for a week. I went back, tweaked a few and then we were ready for the studio. The recording process was semi-live and took two weeks to complete.”

Perfection Kills is a concept that Dan wholeheartedly believes in.

“In any art form, perfection doesn’t exist because there is no yardstick to measure it by. The pursuit of perfection ends up doing far more harm to the art than good. This was the mindset we adhered to when we went into the recording studio, ‘Why try to be perfect?’”