GT: What is it about guitar instrumentals that appeals to you?
JL:
I think inherently the guitar is an orchestral instrument. It has a wealth of possibilities and combinations, harmonically, rhythmically, timbrally. It makes so much sense that there could be almost a distinctive vocabulary of writing, something that's distinct to the guitar that the composer is using. What I love about it is the marriage of the sounds that guitars can make and what the guitar asks of the player; the techniques and approaches. In other words, writing on the guitar is one of the ways I practise the guitar.