NICHOLAS GUNN
The Great Southwest
(c) (p) 2002 Gemini Sun Records
13tks/53mins
When I was wandering a lot
about the terrestrial verges
My favourite land,
you were always on my mind…
It is rather complicated to review the music you
admire. I doubt whether I could appreciate the Nicholas Gunn's new album
without prejudice as far as this musician is one of a number of compositors
I like most of all. I just try to tell what features of his creative work
are much in common with me. So, let's start.
Inconceivable width, boundless flight of fancy inhere in Nicholas
Gunn's music therefore it is practically impossible to describe it. More
over the male power is present in it, this music is very lively and expressive.
You cannot stay indifferent to Its beauty and genuineness. And not even that
all is significant. When you just turn " The Great Southwest" album on you
start living in the cloud-land, you speed away into distant, beautiful provinces,
to the southwest of America where among immense wilderness and vast canyons
this magical splendid music was born.
" The Great Southwest" album includes eleven Nicholas Gunn's
compositions from his previous albums as well as two new ones. It being very
difficult to recognize which ones of the melodies had been recorded earlier
and which ones are new as far as all the compositions which were created
previously have been mixed and re-recorded in a new fashion. The music of
" The Great Southwest" sounds freshly and all the album is listened to in
one go. And as ever Nicholas Gunns' music is extremely emotional.
The sound-design of " The Great Southwest" is practically perfect.
The sounding of the album is very " rich" . It is the greatest pleasure to
listen to these passionate percussion beating out rhythm, a delicate flute,
a wrapping sound of keyboards, a guitar with soft nylon strings, ideally
chosen natural sounds. The European school and Amerind tunes, customary
instruments and the music which is quite like nothing on earth. All that
is Nicholas Gunn and his unique creativity.
This music is so beyond expression beautiful as the sunrise
can be when it illuminates a boundless plain and nigrescent mass of distant
mountains on it with its soft rays. All immensity of a human heart, the very
depths of this life inhere in Nicholas Gunn's music.
Listen to " The Great Southwest" and form your own opinion on
this project. Will it coincide with mine?
When the words are over the music only remains…
To the place where a new day rises
This music hurries up to meet,
Thereto where a new day shall come,
One fine day…
Serge Kozlovsky
email: serge_kozlovsky@tut.by
web site: http://sergekozlovsky.com
P.S. Translated by Tatyana L. Permyakova |
