Harmolodic Guitar With Strings [Import]

James Blood Ulmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 1998)
• Original Release Date: August 18, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Diw Records
• ASIN: B000009Q8U
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,746 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opening

2. Arena: Church

3. Arena: Seven Gates

4. Arena: Arena

5. Arena: Lights Out

6. Arena: Church II

7. Arena: Arena II

8. Page One: In the Name of...

9. Page One: Page One

10. Page One: Blood and John

11. Page One: Page One II

12. Page One: Grand Finale

13. Maya

14. Black Sheep: Prologue

15. Black Sheep: By-Pass

16. Black Sheep: Caretaker

17. Black Sheep: Lost One

18. Black Sheep: Black Sheep

19. Black Sheep: Epilogue

20. Theme From Captain Black

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a concept album, but it works, February 17, 2001

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This review is from: Harmolodic Guitar With Strings (Audio CD)

Be warned-- this is a weird album that can only come from the disturbed mind of someone like James Blood Ulmer. It is, as the title suggests, just Blood's guitar with a string quartet to back him, although the quartet plays more than just a rhythm section role in the music. On Odyssey (possibly Blood's best-- I actually prefer it to Tales of Captain Black, so pick it up if you can find it), Ulmer proved that a guitar and a violin can not only peacefully coexist, but work oddly well together. This album is far different from Odyssey, though, in that there is no distortion of the sound of the string quartet. It actually sounds in several places like a classical album, but every time it begins to do so, Blood's guitar comes in like in an old call-and-response blues piece, echoing what the quartet has played, but in harmolodics. It is weird, but strangely, it works.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clever!, February 12, 2003

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Levan Tsulukidze (Georgia, Batumi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harmolodic Guitar With Strings (Audio CD)

It's not a typical classical album, nor just a jazz or blues album.It's a strange fusion, between avant-garde and mad mad mad conceptual thinking. To me Ulmer very interesting guitar player,his style and playing is so original.I can't express this noordinary feelings which comes from the listenings of this unusual album. Chotic, clean,sometimes dark and bluesy guitar with strings, loads your head and body into other sonics. I like it so much,recommended for all serious music lovers.