Classic Rock Start Page Album Review
CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO - Whitewater
1. The Marsh 4:59
2. Atlantis 4:13
3. Skyline 4:22
4. Mee-Woo 3:18
5. Prelude Circulation BWV 988 2:52
6. Cantharis 3:10
7. Cosmo Calypso 5:33
8. Whitewater 3:57
9. Led Foot 4:17
10. Relative Illusion 3:38
11. Red Iguana 3:12
12. Ghost Riders On The Storm 3:22
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3 different nationalities, 3 different styles of playing guitar?
If there was any doubt about that producer Tony Levin has managed to fit them well together.
This album contains 12 instrumentals, but the strings tell the stories. Romantics ("The Marsh", "Mee-Woo", "Relative Illusion"), classics ("Prelude Circulation BWV 988"), rock ("Led Foot"), fusion ("Red Iguana"), virtuosity ("Skyline", "Cantharis") even a link to the old analog sequencers of the 70's ("Cosmo Calypso")
is present.
For 13 years now Paul Richards (USA), Bert Lams (Belgium) and Hideyo Moriya (Japan) are on the road as the California Guitar Trio and in those years they become an institute with fans all over the world, including Tony Levin, who once again produced a CGT studio-album.
It's a good one to listen to when you're sitting in your chair, headphones on and relaxing after another day of hard work. It brings piece to the mind, and in this world of hasty, nervous people, it could be a medicin for going back to your roots! Virtuosity never predominates, the exact balance is right there between Richards, Lams and Moriya, and that's a skill too!
Already waiting for the next one!
Review by: Clemens Steenweg, September 2004