New CD - Fantastic Guitars

Bill Nelson · **Joined:** Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:40 pm **Posts:** 14185

mthom wrote:

Bill Nelson wrote:

And I'm not surprised that 'Ghosts Behind Glass' has proved challenging. It's the most deliberately experimental/avant-garde track on the album in some ways...one for outer limits listeners (and 'Wire' magazine readers.)

Hmmm, I was surprised that there weren't more tracks like "Ghosts Behind Glass". That was pretty much what I was expecting...

Well, we could easily have done a totally abstract, avant type of album, but there's more to both of us than that and I think we wanted to have some fun with it rather than get too 'furrowed brow' and 'out there.' It's an album of joy and friendship. However, if we do get to record together again, we may well decide to really confuse everyone! :wink:

alec · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:14 pm

Bill Nelson wrote:

mthom wrote:

Bill Nelson wrote:

And I'm not surprised that 'Ghosts Behind Glass' has proved challenging. It's the most deliberately experimental/avant-garde track on the album in some ways...one for outer limits listeners (and 'Wire' magazine readers.)

Hmmm, I was surprised that there weren't more tracks like "Ghosts Behind Glass". That was pretty much what I was expecting...

Well, we could easily have done a totally abstract, avant type of album, but there's more to both of us than that and I think we wanted to have some fun with it rather than get too 'furrowed brow' and 'out there.' It's an album of joy and friendship. However, if we do get to record together again, we may well decide to really confuse everyone! :wink:

Paul Andrews · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:48 pm

I'm finding the album perfectly cogent - nothing weird or abstract there at all really. From what I was reading here I was expecting Stockhausen meets Pere Ubu in a cauldron stirred by The Residents, but no - some lovely instrumentals and great playing.

Nice one Bill and Reeves! I look forward to part two should there be one.

Dar 13.1 · **Joined:** Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:03 am **Posts:** 6465

Paul Andrews wrote:

I'm finding the album perfectly cogent - nothing weird or abstract there at all really. From what I was reading here I was expecting Stockhausen meets Pere Ubu in a cauldron stirred by The Residents, but no - some lovely instrumentals and great playing.

Nice one Bill and Reeves! I look forward to part two should there be one.

Right . I don't see 'it' (music in general) being about overcoming challenges so much as it is simply about alignment, for me . Alignment and a certain kind of 'energetic' (emotional,viscereal, spiritual aspects , all rolled into something more) compatability. It's isn't hard to 'understand' Fantastic Guitars ; it isn't some foreign language or
obscure scientific minutae I don't have the knowledge base to comprehend ; it's sounds, timbres, rhythms, twangulation extrapolations . Some of it annoys me, some of it intrigues me, some of it sends me into cosmic spasms of glee. It's all good ... great, in fact . It just doesn't all work for me the way I need music to . Much of it does though

felixt1 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 15, 2014 12:17 am

WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Well, look who decided to join the party today :mrgreen:

That is one PHAT delivery

Nick · **Joined:** Thu Jun 12, 2014 7:55 pm **Posts:** 1

Ordered this now . I see this is a limited edition of 500 copies so hopefully I won't miss out.
Trying to work through the releases I don't yet have . Still have some way to go , but the journey is amazing .Please keep them coming!

hypnohighball · **Posted:** Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:03 am

Nick wrote:

Ordered this now . I see this is a limited edition of 500 copies so hopefully I won't miss out.

I don't think that this particular cd is limited to 500 physical copies, it just says "limited" and nobody's said exactly how many are being pressed.

Robbot · **Posted:** Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:59 am

Right off the bat, the tracks that grabbed me were:
04. A Brilliant Night For Rain
05. Ghosts Behind Glass
09. Santos
10. Radio Andalusia

I'm sure this will change, but those jumped out at me immediately.

Two words I would use to describe the entire cd are: playful and insistent.

G. Vazquez · **Joined:** Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:45 pm **Posts:** 309

I'm not happy with the album.

It's too short.

With a musicianship that incredible, with songs that complex and interesting, with those guitar lines that blend like Nelson and Gabrels were born to play together, anything less than a double album is just not enough. :evil:

There. I made my complaint. :wink:

felixt1 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:40 am

G. Vazquez wrote:

I'm not happy with the album.

It's too short.

With a musicianship that incredible, with songs that complex and interesting, with those guitar lines that blend like Nelson and Gabrels were born to play together, anything less than a double album is just not enough. :evil:

There. I made my complaint. :wink:

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