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Artist: JAMES BEAUDREAU Title: Fresh Twigs [Lt ed of 250 #'d copies] Label: Workbench 02 Country: USA Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $12.00
Description: Featuring James on guitar, bass guitar & percussion, and with former DMG crewman Mikey IQ Jones guesting on percussion & electronics on one piece. This is the second disc by our friend James Beaudreau, and again he has done a fine job of delivering his own personal take on the guitar. There seems to be a deluge of solo guitarists emerging over the past few years and often acoustic players. On "Opening Bell," James plays a variety of guitars, some electric, more acoustic, carefully layers parts one on top of the other without ever become too dense or overdone. Each guitar has a very different sound or personality, depending on how it was recorded or which device was used to alter its sound. I like the way James uses either static or the sound of a campfire burning to give "Gold Coast" a more outdoorish quality. "Montmartre" starts with one acoustic guitar and then shifts into two other acoustic guitars and then it shifts again as the different guitars come from different places in the mix. There is an odd charm at work here where different themes overlap, connect and/or intersect. Each piece present a different theme, idea or a handful of related fragments that somehow fit together just right. Some of these fragemts are elegant and some are slightly twisted, yet they all seem releated to one another. What I dig most about this is the occasionally delicate sections that are both soothing and a bit perplexing at the same time. A few of these tracks have that Frith-like skewered pop sound that was apparent on "Gravity" or "Speechless". You never know where some of these pieces will end up, yet with some time & perspective, they all fit into a certain magical place. - BLG
| Artist: JAMES BEAUDREAU |
| Title: Fresh Twigs [Lt ed of 250 #'d copies] |
| Label: Workbench 02 Country: USA |
| Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $12.00 |
| Description: Featuring James on guitar, bass guitar & percussion, and with former DMG crewman Mikey IQ Jones guesting on percussion & electronics on one piece. This is the second disc by our friend James Beaudreau, and again he has done a fine job of delivering his own personal take on the guitar. There seems to be a deluge of solo guitarists emerging over the past few years and often acoustic players. On "Opening Bell," James plays a variety of guitars, some electric, more acoustic, carefully layers parts one on top of the other without ever become too dense or overdone. Each guitar has a very different sound or personality, depending on how it was recorded or which device was used to alter its sound. I like the way James uses either static or the sound of a campfire burning to give "Gold Coast" a more outdoorish quality. "Montmartre" starts with one acoustic guitar and then shifts into two other acoustic guitars and then it shifts again as the different guitars come from different places in the mix. There is an odd charm at work here where different themes overlap, connect and/or intersect. Each piece present a different theme, idea or a handful of related fragments that somehow fit together just right. Some of these fragemts are elegant and some are slightly twisted, yet they all seem releated to one another. What I dig most about this is the occasionally delicate sections that are both soothing and a bit perplexing at the same time. A few of these tracks have that Frith-like skewered pop sound that was apparent on "Gravity" or "Speechless". You never know where some of these pieces will end up, yet with some time & perspective, they all fit into a certain magical place. - BLG |