Alex De Grassi - The Water Garden
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Free Music Review: FANTASTIC !!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Perhaps the best CD I've purchased. If you are a commuter and look forward to decompression time, you should listen to Water Garden. Your family and friends will appreciate it.Free Music Review: superb technique, but...
Hit: 4 Stars
I own about half of Alex de Grassi's albums; of the ones I know I think this is his best, but they all showcase a great talent for technique in the fingerpicking style. The sound De Grassi produces is amazingly clear and clean, and for all appearances effortless despite the complexity of his right hand technique. But... I don't feel I could ever give a De Grassi album a '5' rating, because to me he always sounds so mechanical. I can't think of any other guitarist so accomplished as he who exudes so little personality through his play. Yes, he does have a more or less instantly recognizable style, but it's not because of a particular kind of warmth/emotion; rather, it's on the basis of the lack of such. The present album purports to be "a collection of solo guitar pieces on the theme of water," but I feel/hear little of the wetness or chaos of flow that is the essence of water in De Grassi's play. It's just all too--organized. Try an experiment: play any of these pieces (or all of them) for a friend who has never heard of the album, and ask them what his play conjures up. Will they say 'water'? I doubt it. I like De Grassi in small doses; in that way his material comes off as more abstract (or perhaps classical), creating a kind of emotional counterpoint to other, more involving, material. **Addendum: In response to comments by one of the other reviewers: Yes, I actually do own and know all the early albums you mention--but my remarks still stand (in fact, they stand *because* I know those albums). I *admire* de Grassi's play, but find his approach too detached to be involving for very long, however spectacular his technique is.Free Music Review: Repetition, repetition and more repetition
Hit: 1 Stars
This is the first title from this artist that I've listened to. While he's obviously technically talented, I found myself asking, "where's the art here?". I purchased this CD based on Amazon's recommendation which, in turn, was based on my purchase of Nice Feelings by Pierre Bensusan (a fantastic piece of work).The Water Garden is repetitious to the point of tedium. The first cut, "Prelude", so repetious as to be annoying.