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Mother Nature by Ylric Illians |
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- posted by Consonance.info, ex-NetRadio Relax on 8/30/2012 |
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Like a music of Nature |
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“Mother Nature” is new achievement of sound depths made by Ylric Illians. The album is a unit of nature life and we can see it since the first seconds of it. |
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Rating: Very Good + |
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Broken Dreams by Dominique Langham |
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- posted by Consonance.info, ex-NetRadio Relax on 8/30/2012 |
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Beauty in Sadness |
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Beautiful sadness put in music helped Dominique Langham in creating of exclusively soulful album with short but thrilling pieces. It's the ode to our internal Cosmos that often appears in difficult relations with our world. |
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Rating: Very Good + |
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Giving Voice: Guitar Explorations by Rich Osborn |
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- posted by anonymous on 6/14/2012 |
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INNOVATIVE SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC |
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Occasionally a musician comes along who pushes the envelope in a specific genre. In this case the genre is solo acoustic guitar music, and even more specifically, music that is played "free raga style," which means Osborn generally follows the raga form from India, but then improvises within that structure. He fingerpicks, but not in the more common Travis-style that is heard in folk and country. He is not keeping a running bass-line going all the time with his thumb. This music is much more free of those contraints. Osborn is stretching the boundaries, like a jazz musician, not with speed, but with quality. This music opens your mind to possibilities. The album begins with the most free-form track, "Into the Silent Land." The most structured tune is "Joelle's Song" which was written for a wedding and has two tempo-different sections (before and after the wedding). The most melodic pieces are "Knights of the Interior Castle" and "A Song of New Beginnings" (the first sounds like the soundtrack to a period-piece movie and the latter reflects Osborn's life after his wife died). It would be remiss not to mention the longest composition, the ten-minute-plus "The View from San Damiano, with Rain," which starts with random notes representing the first minute of raindrops preceding a full rain-storm. This album spent several months in the ZMR Top 10 and is definitely worth checking out for its fresh originality. |
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Rating: Excellent |
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