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- Date Released: July 8, 2003
- Genre: Country/Folk
- Label: Locust Music / IODA
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Solo instrumental guitar music is often categorized as new age, whatever the ability or ambition of the player. Unfortunately, this tendency overlooks the compositional skills of guitarists whose complex work is often closer to classical than new age. Wooden Guitar gathers five extended pieces by Jack Rose, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Tetuzi Akiyama, and Sir Richard Bishop. The sheer length of these works -- four run over 14 minutes -- convinces one of the artists' seriousness. All of these pieces indulge in a quiet, contemplative mood, and they never "progress" in the straightforward fashion of typical Western music. Instead, they float, linger, and move in unexpected directions as they travel toward the journey's unpredictable end. Basho-Junghans is the best-known name here, and he performs two cuts, "A North Thuringian Raga" and "Smiling Penguins." On the latter piece he turns his guitar into a percussive instrument, evoking the barren, ice-packed landscape and the footsteps of hundreds of birds. Akiyama's "Time Between" is a 20-minute meditation that combines carefully chosen notes and quiet spaces. Bishop brings a haunting air to the program with the pensive closer, "Corpuscle," a dark piece with traditional Spanish themes embedded. At 70 minutes, Wooden Guitar will be warmly embraced by novice players and fans of serious guitar music.
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Red Horse II |
14:47 |
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| 02. | |
A North Thuringian Raga
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14:33 |
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Time Between
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20:43 |
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Smiling Penguins
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5:13 |
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Corpuscle
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0:00 |
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05 Total Tracks, 55:16 Total Length
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Credits
- Jack Rose - Guitar // Steffen Basho-Junghans - Guitar // Tetuzi Akiyama - Guitar // Dawson Prater - Producer // Ernst Karel - Mastering // Richard Bishop - Guitar
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