JOOP WOLTERS

Joop Wolters biography
Joop WOLTERS is a Dutch guitarist and songwriter. He was born on the 8th of June 1971 in Middelburg, Netherlands. In 1994 he started his professional music career in the prog/fusion metal band ARABESQUE who released their instrumental debut album ''Beyond The Veil'' (Shark Records). In 2000 begins his partnership with publisher Lion Music. Two years later ARABESQUE would release the second studio album ''The Union'' on the label Lion Music. Joop WOLTERS collaborated also on tribute albums of Lion Music, which was dedicated to the guitarists like Uli Jon ROTH, Gary MOORE, Ritchie BLACKMORE, Jimi HENDRIX and Shawn LANE.

He started a solo career with the album ''Workshop'' in 2003 (Lion Music). This was followed by the next two albums ''Speed, Traffic & Guitar Accidents'' (2004, Lion Music) and the critically well received ''Out Of Order'' (2007 Lion Music). In 2008 he joined prog-metal project SHADRANE with a couple of very good musicians and released studio album ''Temporal'' (2008, Lion Music). Wolters was also guest guitarist on album ''Oniric Metal'' of French prog-metal keyboardist LALU. His fourth personal studio recording ''False Poetry'' was self-released (2011) and it brings excellent instrumental music with a variety of styles.

Joop WOLTERS reflected his flavour for combining various styles, because he has several years of experience as a studio musician in funk, pop, jazz, metal and acoustic music. Joop WOLTERS is a technically varied guitar player with a nice melodic feeling. His music is focused mainly on progressive metal with emphasis on fusion.

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