Stuart McCallum & Mike Walker - The Space Between (2016)

The Space Between is the second album by guitarists (and longtime friends) Stuart McCallum and Mike Walker. McCallum and Walker are British guitar giants, equally proficient and skilled, yet with vastly different sounds, setups and backgrounds. As a duo, there's a deep connection between these two musical minds, a great sense of unity, mutual respect and generosity and they are able to create something of real beauty and authority that transcends their individual brilliance. Beholden, the duo's 2014's self-produced first album, featured spacious reimaginings of the guitarists' compositions and jazz standards. The Space Between finds McCallum and Walker developing extra gravitas, focusing on McCallum originals. In addition they include two exquisitely chosen standards - ''Alfie'' and ''My Ideal'' - that sit perfectly in the set. The Space Between is not just an album documenting a musical friendship and the love felt for an instrument, it is a bold statement.