5.0 out of 5 stars
This is the best acoustic record Ive heard in 20 years, June 30, 2009
This review is from: Left Of Sunday Afternoon (Audio CD)
This is the best acoustic record Ive heard in 20 years, May 26, 2009
By Elinor
"In a time when western music has become a desert dry with extemporaneous creativity, guitarist Darin Laynes album Left of Sunday Afternoon through the confusion with that one clear, clean drink of water you were looking for. Teaming up with ace-of-all-trades drummer and percussionist Jason McKenzie performing on the North Indian drum called the tabla, their acoustic guitar and tabla interplay is inthing less than brilliant. Well, recorded, arranged and produced, Left of Sunday Afternoon is no mirage. Simply by the purity of the performance, melody and rhythm, it sends you on twilight rides through the desert in gypsy caravans or to wander back down that old country creek with cypress trees that you used to swim at in the summers as a kid. Darin Layne brings his own amazing abilities as a guitarist and composer into sharp relief, with echos of John McLaughlins Shakti coupled wit the acoustic prowess of Michael Hedges and Leo Kottle. Each song has a clarity and freshness that is only found when the muciscans at hand lose themselves in their common love of music.
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