Larry Coryell, Philip Catherine - Splendid
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Music CD Cover Artist: Larry Coryell, Philip Catherine Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown) CD Release Date: 2007-10-30 Music Label: Wounded Bird Records |
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Free Music Review: Resplendent
Hit: 5 Stars
Any solo instrument can start to sound tedious after 40 minutes regardless of how beautiful it may sound during 4 minutes, but I could listen to the two (mostly) unaccompanied guitars of Larry Coryell and Phillip Catherine on this recording for several hours! Hearing "Splendid" again (finally available on CD) is a reminder of the principle that how musicians listen to each other is more important than how many notes they're playing. The interaction between the two guitarists is so fine-tuned as to be almost telepathic and there's so much diversity of style: from the modernistic dissonance of "One plus two blues" to the elegiac and haunting "Quiet day in Spring" (with help from the fretless bass), and yet there's a unity of form to the recording. "Splendid" rekindled a love of the steel string acoustic guitar for me and (along with Michael Hedges' "Aerial Boundaries") helped validate it in my mind, as a powerful solo instrument again.