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John Fahey - City Of Refuge FLAC

Singer:

John Fahey

Album:

City Of Refuge

Genre:

Electronic style / Blues

FLAC album size:

1439 mb

MP3 album size:

1216 mb

WMA album size:

1395 mb

Other music formats:

MIDI AAC DXD MP4 MOD VOC AC3

Rating:

4.1 ✱

Style:

Avantgarde

Country:

US

Date of release:

1997

John Fahey - City Of Refuge FLAC


John Fahey - City Of Refuge FLAC

Tracklist

Fanfare 5:17
The Mill Pond 3:51
Chelsey Silver, Please Come Home 4:31
City Of Refuge I 20:37
City Of Refuge III 6:30
Hope Slumbers Eternal 5:04
On The Death And Disembowelment Of The New Age 19:27

Versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
644 830 127-2 AD John Fahey City Of Refuge ‎(CD, Album, Promo) Tim/Kerr Records 644 830 127-2 AD US 1997
644 830 127-2 John Fahey City Of Refuge ‎(CD, Album) Tim/Kerr Records 644 830 127-2 US 1997



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IT'S GENERALLY A rule for most people that if it doesn't have a melody it's unapproachable and discomforting. But for some of us the certainty of formula is not always appealing. City of Refuge shows John Fahey in a different light altogether. Perhaps his most recent collaboration with avant-garde experimental musician Jim O'Rourke has yielded a new "urban" feel to his sound. Lots of static and noise - characteristics you don't normally attribute to Fahey. But buried in there somewhere, is a melody, however subtle, it exists as an undercurrent or at least suggested at. Opening up with "Fanfare" are buzzing overdriven distorted notes that drown out the noise from what sounds like motor hum of some sort. Slide enters at the end - in a near fatal collision. With the motor still humming on "The Mill Pond," notes from the head of the guitar are well placed; detuning it at the same time and at some point tuning it back to another frequency. He starts to chart familiar territory on "Chelsey Silver, Please Come Home" sliding up and down the neck and bare finger pickin' like the non-revivalist man he is. Nine minutes into "City of Refuge I" - the prelude sparse installments of hanging notes in free form style - comes that hidden melody - floating and coming down. "City of Refuge III" is like anything off his previous records; bluesy, emotional - eternal. The new formula works best on "Hope Slumbers Eternal." On the last song sampling STEREOLAB's 'Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements' Fahey reminds us that his associations with punks and alternative types - in and around the Salem Oregon area - has kept his music honest, fresh - a signpost.

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