For a long time I was torn between doing rock or contemporary music. The result was often complex rock music, elaborately structured on one hand, and contemporary pieces that I wanted to be understandable to a non-specialist audience on the other.
Little by little, my work has become more refined and assertive, leading to the compositions featured on my latest albums: 12 pieces for solo electric guitar and Rejoice! by Yang.
However, my task is not complete until, for me at least, the polarities between the two styles of music vanish.
Last albums
Rejoice!
My “rockiest” work is currently with Yang.
I compose the band repertoire according to musicians personnalities. Rejoice! is the last one, released on Cuneiform Records in July 2024 with Carla Kihlstedt on voice.
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12 pieces for solo electric guitar
My last solo work, published on Bandcamp in 2022 is 12 pieces for solo electric guitar, an album made of studies (Etudes) addressing different angles of the electric guitar technique, as well as compositions, mainly contemporary classical, for this instrument.
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Campanologie
My experimental side, Campanologie, released in 2019, is the result of the experimentations I have carried out about and around the composition of my piece for electric guitar quartet, Etude Campanologique n°3.
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Also
The Empty Room
The Empty Room is about mourning, but it doesn’t make it a sad album. It is more a questioning about loss, about letting go or handling pain, about how grief can turn into a vessel of serenity and peace.
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12 pieces for solo electric guitar
This collection of sheet music pieces is the written version of 12 pieces for solo electric guitar with addition of the Etude N°3, included on the CD-R. 92 pages + a CD-R.
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What people say
“I can’t tell you how many hours I have spent listening to Yang’s particular alchemy over the last few years: the telepathy between the guitars of L’Epee and James is apparent; the intricate rhythms handled with precision, subtlety and power by Voloda Brice; not to mention Nico Gomez, who is amongst the most melodic bass players I’ve heard.”
Phil Howitt – Canterbury Scene
(Rejoice!)
“Maestro Frédéric L’Epée, accompanied (among others) by the great Carla Kihlstedt, have given us this 2024 one of the best works that can be heard in the avant-prog genre.”
Prog Archives
(12 pieces for solo electric guitar)
“Some beautiful exercises and pieces for electric guitar from Frederic L’Epee. Several hypnotizing patterns, my favorite being the First and Second Variations of Etude No 1.”
Dustin Wall
©Frédéric L’Epée 2025