Dove award winning “Instrumental Album of the Year”. The songs really capture Phil’s Celtic influence. This CD is deeply reflective and moving. Several songs feature orchestration, adding to the warmth of this album. Highly recommended!
Tracklist:
1. In The Light Of Common Day
2. County Down
3. Symphonic Dance
4. Addison's Walk
5. I Feel The Wind Of God Today
6. Fare Thee Well
7. Fragile Forest
8. Brother Jack
9. As Warm As Tears
10. A Place Of Springs
11. In The Light Of Common Day (Reprise)
12. When Night Falls
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Phil Keaggy - Beyond Nature
Sunday, June 14, 20096- and 12-String Guitar - Leo Kottke
Friday, June 12, 2009
For decades, Leo Kottke would inspire generations of fingerpicking acoustic guitarists (and help pave the way for New Age and contemporary instrumental music), but this 1969 album is the one that started it all. Kottke's brilliant debut was released, fittingly, on John Fahey's Takoma label. Showing the influence of Fahey himself (and Takoma labelmate Robbie Basho), Kottke performs impossibly difficult solo compositions that meld blues, bluegrass, and jazz techniques. Whether surefooted and quick ("The Driving of the Year Nail," "Jack Fig," "The Fisherman") or slow and reflective ("Ojo," "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"), Kottke's instrumental work is simply awe-inspiring. He'd forge an entire career out of this music and eventually incorporate singing onto his albums, but this gem is Kottke at his very best. Essential. --Jason Verlinde
Tracklist:
1. The Driving Of The Year Nail 1:54
2. The Last Of The Arkansas Greyhounds 3:15
3. Ojo 2:12
4. Crow River Waltz 3:17
5. The Sailor's Grave On The Prairie 2:30
6. Vaseline Machine Gun 3:08
7. Jack Fig 2:10
8. Watermelon 3:07
9. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring 2:21
10. The Fisherman 2:29
11. The Tennessee Toad 2:37
12. Busted Bicycle 2:45
13. The Brain Of The Purple Mountain 2:07
14. Coolidge Rising
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Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries
It's been called the album that opened "a new chapter on steel-string guitar playing," and it's unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking albums in acoustic guitar history. Though Hedges had released the excellent Breakfast in the Field on Windham Hill in 1981, the Grammy-nominated Boundaries came as an unexpected revelation in 1985. On stirring, complex compositions like "Rickover's Dream," "Spare Change," and a deft instrumental reading of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush," Hedges unleashed a stunning new vocabulary of finger-tapping, hammering, and harmonic slaps--processed with electronics and reverb--that still resounds today in the playing of artists from Ani Di Franco to Preston Reed. Steeped both in classical harmony and the fingerstyle guitar tradition of Leo Kottke, Martin Carthy, and John Renbourn, Boundaries remains the late composer-guitarist's seminal work, and its innovations in technique, tuning, tone, and intensity remain key texts in modern acoustic circles. James Rotondi
Tracklist:
1. Aerial Boundaries
2. Bensusan
3. Rickover's Dream
4. Ragamuffin
5. After the Gold Rush
6. Hot Type
7. Spare Change
8. Menage a Trois
9. The Magic Farmer
Bossa Nova
Sunday, June 7, 2009
1. Hard Day's Night
2. With a Little Help from My Friends
3. If I Fell
4. All My Loving
5. She Loves You
6. Michelle
7. In My Life
8. Here, There and Everywhere
9. I Want to Hold Your Hand
10. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
11. Pra Você Eu Digo Sim (If I Fell)
12. Minha Vida (In My Life)
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1. Fool to Cry - Lima Moananu,
2. Let's Spend the Night Together
3. Out of Time - Astrud C.,
4. Sympathy for the Devil [Pleased Remix]
5. Under My Thumb
6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Michelle Simonal
7. Harlem Shuffle [Favela Remix]
8. Ruby Tuesday [the Dubby Mix] - Dual Sessions
9. Angie - Uschi,
10. Miss You [Back 2 Remixes]
11. Start Me Up/Brown Sugar [Remix]
12. Wild Horses - Karen Souza
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1. Redemption Song
2. No Woman No Cry - Astrud C., Lima Moananu,
3. Buffalo Soldier [the Trumak Remix]
4. I Shot the Sheriff - São Vicente
5. Stir It Up - Michelle Simonal
6. Sun Is Shining [Shiny Remix]
7. Positive Vibration [+ Mix] - Dual Sessions
8. Is This Love
9. Get Up Stand Up
10. One Love [Caipora Mix]
11. Could You Be Loved [Bahian Roots Remix]
12. Waiting in Vain
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1. As Tears Go By [Luxury Strings Mix] - São Vicente
2. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Amazonics
3. Beast of Burden - Aneka,
4. Emotional Rescue [2 Many Beats Remix]
5. Tumbling Dice
6. Mixed Emotions - Michelle Simonal
7. Honky Tonk Women [Three Knocks Mix]
8. Paint It Black
9. She's So Cold [Ipanema@7" Mix]
10. It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It) - Natascha
11. I'm Free [Wizard Edit] - Uschi
12. You Can't Always Get What You Want
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1. Intro - G-Spliff
2. Patience - Sixth Finger
3. Sweet Child O' Mine - Banda Do Sul
4. Paradise City - Scubba
5. November Rain - Ghetto Blaster Ltd.
6. You Could Be Mine - Glambeats Corp.
7. Knockin' On Heaven's Door - United Rhythms Of Brazil
8. Since I Don't Have You - Amazonics
9. Don't Cry - Sao Vicente
10. Welcome To The Jungle - Freedom Dub
11. It's So Easy - Natalie Renoir
12. Used To Love Her - Groove Da Praia
13. Live And Let Die - Anekka
14. Outro - G-Spliff
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