Jazz Articles about Jeff Pearce

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Jeff Pearce and Vidna Obmana: True Stories

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

Vidna Obmana (the Belgian ambient electronic composer, whose real name is Dirk Serries) has been prolific in the last half of the '90s and into this new decade. I am happy to report that I like his new music more and more. This collaboration with ambient guitarist Jeff Pearce is a good sample of the newer Obmana style.

Obmana has chosen his collaborators wisely, especially his longtime musical partnership with Steve Roach. I must admit that the reason I like ...

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Jeff Pearce: To the Shores of Heaven

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

There are quite a few artists in the ambient field who use electric guitar as part or all of their musical instrumentation, but none does it so well as Jeff Pearce. In this solemn but beautiful album there are timbres and sound-effects, and even percussion sounds, which you would think were done on a synthesizer - but all of it is done with electric guitar. That does not mean that there is no actual guitar-playing on the album; it does ...