Customer Reviews

Existence

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The majority of the songs on this album are, in my opinion, the caliber of Mozart. I listen to it at work often on my headphones and it is nothing but the pure dripping mother tincture of audio awesomeness.

Each song is not only complex and full of interesting movement, but, more importantly, they SOUND GOOD and are often moving to the soul. This is rare in the realm of pure guitar.

Many compare Antoine to Andy Mckee, but I really think Antoine is better. Both have amazing technique, but so far only Antoine has created an album that is consistently stellar from start to finish.

This album is truthfully a masterpiece.

I have never heard of this guy, but he sounds like a combination of Pierre Bensusan and Michael Hedges. I noticed he used a few Andrew York riffs as well. Very nice and creative guitar playing - love it!

I love the guys playing. He's taken from Michael Hedges and brought it into the present

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Dufour came into his own as a guitar player, eclipsing his best with a whole other level. A must buy for any acoustic guitar fan. I have been a fan of his since Naissance in 2005, and he has just gotten better since then.

Pandora presented "Transcendent Mountain" to me while on the Phil Keaggy channel the other day. It was one of those rare musical moments where three thoughts immediately converged:

1. I have never heard anything quite like this before.

2. The caliber and quality of the music is phenomenal.

3. I must buy this album now!

If you fiddle with the acoustic guitar, as I do, you'll listen to this and vacillate between wanting to brush the dust off the thing and learn to play it again, and throwing it in the fireplace because you'll never sound anything like this.

The entire CD is top notch. Buy it, download it, steal it if you must... but give it a listen. You'll be glad you did.

This cd has a new age kind of melody to it. Its full of rythem and melody and really gets your mind to wonder to wonderful places. My favorite sone is "Into you Heart," its a little more experimental than the others, the rythem is chopped so beautifully in some places all the while maintaining melody.

There are a lot of guitarists out there who are willing to showcase their fancy guitar-playing techniques. Antoine Dufour silences them by making gorgeous music with the guitar. And oh, by the way, he's got some amazing techniques. I can't wait to hear another CD.

I'm a writer and this is my go to for background music every time I sit down at my laptop. By far my favorite album from him.