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Robert Thies: Blue Landscapes III: Frontiers
by Robin B James
Delicate, like two wise birds heard singing on a breeze—piano and flute, bringing unhurried and relaxed, melodic instrumental wonderment. Consistently contemplative serene movements, weaving a diaphanous kaleidoscopic silk tapestry. Nothing is even remotely fast or moderately hasty, the entire album is a perfect daydream with clouds. Thies and Krajacic create soundscapes that leave enough space in the music for the listener to fill with their own thoughts. It is about life. It is about freedom. It is about taking the ...
read moreGrateful Dead: Dick's Picks 24
by Skip Heller
The plethora of available live Grateful Dead material might be a completist's delight, but it can make for a nightmare for the consumer who just wants a few really good discs. This was a truly multifaceted band, with every facet documented to the point of exhaustion (or even tedium, depending who you ask). At their rootsy best, they could claim kinship with both The Band and The Allman Brothers, and as a longform improvising unit, they could be on par ...
read moreChet Atkins and Les Paul: Guitar Monsters
by Skip Heller
The seventies were bountiful years for guitar fans. Looking now at Guitar Player magazines of the period, it's almost dizzying to see how many veteran guitarists were doing some of their most interesting and liberated work. Bop stalwarts, blues greats (often obscure), and notable country pickers were all well-represented on vinyl throughout the decade, on a variety of labels.Chet Atkins, whose easy listening country guitar records (all on RCA) were too often tasteful to a fault, came out ...
read morePamela and Randy Copus: River of Stars
by AAJ Staff
I must admit that this album is one of my “guilty pleasures." It is unabashedly sentimental “New Age" music, as sweet as cotton candy and as soft as a down pillow, and this “dark techno/ambient" fan loves it. River of Stars is like all the good moments of Enya, the “celestial choruses" and the synthesized orchestral and string playing, without Enya's bleating little voice and Celtic/religious pretensions. It is slickly and professionally produced, with occasional hints of Latin or Indian ...
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