| Jef Coker | Music from the Clouds |
| Jeff has been one
of the most consistent figures on the Avalonian cafe/pub music scene in
recent years, it's good to see some more solid evidence of this man's talents.
Music from the Clouds has a promisingly well designed cover, albeit with
a slightly bewildered picture of Jeff on the inside.
The album begins with an avalanche of hardcore
flamenco, 'Granadinas'. I don't know much about flamenco, so it's hard
to say whether it's good or not, but some pretty impressive sounding guitar
work, by anyone's standards. This gives way to a more rhymic piece, 'tempo',
which acts as a base to more atmospheric acoustic noodling. The title
track, 'Music from the Clouds' involves more fretwibbling, this time to
a background of new age ambience - actually i quite like this one, it's
a bit mysterious with lots of spacey bubbling noises in the background.
I keep expecting to catch tumbleweed rolling across my living room floor,
hang on a minute was that the guitar? somewhere between inspired and dribbling.
Suddenly the band strikes up with 'Jaya matakali' - a furious gypsy kings
style romp! This is a collection of fine acoustic guitar based instrumentals, showing Jeff clearly as a guitarist of great technical merit and musical versatility, all put together in the best looking package yet from picture records. |
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