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Recommended by us on 24th July 2008
...according to our Brian on Thu 24 Jul, 2008.
I've been thrusted James Blackshaw's new CD 'Litany of Echoes' to try & decipher for you lot into meaningless words. Elvis Costello once said that writing about music was a pointless exercise & when it comes to describing this man's extraordinary talent the old snipe was dead on. Both Phil & I are big fans so now is the time for me to big him up! Opening with a grand piano piece, slightly foreboding but mercurial, the ivories being thumped hypnotically, gently, rapidly, in a similar manner to his guitar playing before track two opens with some mournful viola like distant trains arcing lonefully across a desert. This is the cue for his spine tingling steel 12 string to enter stage left and from then on I feel like my ears are being taken out for a posh meal. He injects so much warmth and soul into his playing. It could be the pinnacle of contemporary classical folk for all I know, there's not one guitarist in the UK today who caresses his strings in such a spellbinding way as this boy! Initially with the viola swooping eerily as a backdrop, he weaves his magic sound into vast shifting moodscapes that keep you hooked till the very end. His style is very distinctive, his fingers must be possessed (you feel like there's 2-3 guitarists creating this gorgeousness) and he leaves you with a feeling of peace & awe for a long time after you've finished listening. Shout out to Fran Bury for the hugely complimentary viola & violin backing intermittent throughout. She certainly adds some unquantifiable depth to proceedings! Nothing else will quite hit the spot after one of his recordings. If you're already a convert then this is all obvious, however if you've not yet been blessed, this truly is up there with his finest work & an ideal starting point! CD only on Tomkins Square!We calculate your shipping costs by taking the heaviest item in your order and calculating that at the 'Heaviest Item' price. Each additional item in your order is then charged at the 'Additional Item' price.
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