Silhouette of a Season

Matt Millecchia (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Acid Lake Publishing
• ASIN: B002G3SHBI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #701,065 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The long awaited Matt Millecchia CD, "Silhouette of a Season" produced by Will Ackerman (founder of Windham Hill Records and Grammy Award Winner) has been released and is now available! Many world renowned musicians have joined him on this recording including T-Bone Wolk (SNL Band, Carly Simon, Hall and Oates), Michael Manring (Grammy Award nominee), Jeff Oster (2007 Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, NAR), Samite, Eugene Friesen, Derrik Jordan, Steve Schuch, Jimmy Gordon and guitarist and Grammy Award winning songwriter himself, Will Ackerman. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Grammy Award winning engineer, Corin Nelsen in Will Ackerman's personal studio, Imaginary Road Studios, in Windham County, Vermont.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Review from NewAgeMusicWorld.Com / NewAgeMusic.nu, November 11, 2010

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John P. Olsen / Review Publicist (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silhouette Of A Season (MP3 Download)

Much like the seasonal changes we encounter daily at various locations around the world, many musicians I encounter daily have their own change in atmosphere in relation to the music they produce. Their musical adaptations in style and structure can sometimes be expected to a degree, but most times it is tempered just like the weather and cannot be easily predicted by anyone.

Matt Millecchia is a great example of a guitar player making a more profound change in his performance style by releasing of all things, a New Age album. Currently residing in New York, Matt is most acclimated to performances with various Metal Rock, Punk and Folk bands over the past 20 years and really not a matter of being a hot to cold disparity by this, but this departure certainly is polarizing. Interestingly, Matt Millecchia is also a senior engineer who takes precision measurements on one of the most powerful lasers ever produced so he is uniquely familiar with the technical aspects of extremes.

Silhouette of a Season is his more equalizing New Age Contemporary Instrumental debut with 12 original compositions featuring Matt on 4 Solo Guitar songs. Employing another key change in style, he specializes in the flat-pick method of acoustic guitar verses a more common finger style and has also enlisted notable artists most will recognize.

Taking the legendary journey to Imaginary Road Studios in Vermont, Grammy Winner and founder of Windham Hill Records Will Ackerman has produced and performs guitar with Matt on two songs. Another Grammy Award winner Corin Nelsen engineered, mixed and mastered this album so the quality shines by their expertise, plus the all inclusive list of top musicians on various songs which includes Michael Manring on bass, Eugene Friesen on cello, the late T-Bone Wolk on bass and accordion, Derrik Jordan on electric violin and percussion, Jeff Oster on flugelhorn, Steve Schuch on acoustic violin, and Samite on flute.

Silhouette of a Season shows a natural beauty in composition and performance while dramatizing a glowing atmosphere during each of the 12 songs placed mainly in a moderate tempo. All have a pleasing feel of radiance and song Arrivials is the first prelude into the many qualities you will experience on the entire album. Orchestra and electric violins provide a swaying motion while guitars evenly enhance this refined image by counter rhythms and then again in a more pronounced Summer Tears.

Antietam Spring is a light introspective song where accordion and guitar inscribe a peaceful feeling while achieving a pleasing sense of intrigue and perhaps only natural given the interesting choice in instrumental harmonies. The guitar pairing of flugelhorn in Mist and cello in Acid Lake are like the percussion, guitar and flute instrumentals in Sphynx where each artist imparts their proficient expressions while revealing the fine naturalistic atmosphere Matt Millecchia envisioned for each song.

Matt takes a graceful departure apart from more familiar genres by the 4 Solo Guitar improvisations of Georgia Springs, Expectations, August Eclipse & Moonset and while adapting this gentle change of seasons with over 20 years of experience and by using the flat-pick method without sub-rhythm overdubbing, the transition is made solid by a fine performance, along with his artistic stance on the evenly represented concepts of harmony.

Silhouette of a Season is an album anyone can become acclimated with every single day of the year and since the glorious presentation given by every musician transposes a fine exploration in atmosphere, their precise harmonies bring to light an integral shine for success which to me, turns out to be an even more predictable quality.