whitley
The Web in its ever evolving avatar allows one to follow various doorways and paths, leading us to never before seen or heard secrets (some well kept, others just too pure and brilliant to be uncovered by the generic commonality of mass production).
Chris Whitley has been my last, most successful journey, a discovery.
The Entertainment Weekly in September 2001 proclaimed
""...The troubadour goes digital, looping in Middle Eastern chants, bongo beats, electronic beeps, and DJ Logic's scratches..."
Samplings of his music available here
For me, it was the magnificence of Pandora that begun it all. On the DC alternative rock channel, some true judge of musical talent, known only to me from a digital signature played a track of his called breaking your fall. Pandora, in all its tremendous wisdom explained the genres to me as follows:
mellow rock instrumentation
folk influences
mild rhythmic syncopation
acoustic sonority
a vocal-centric aesthetic
major key tonality
acoustic rhythm guitars
My first reaction, What the f@#$? Folk influences interspersing with mellow rock instrumentation and an accoustic sonority? I had to hear more.
I then find this.
He was Dave Matthews' musical mentor.
Amazon kicked in towards the discovery of this phenomenon. I got Rocket House.
The album enters macabre and yet very real elements of my sensibility and the haunting, almost unreal sounds generated in conjunction with simple, heart-wrenching vocals has my mind in a dizzy.
I close my eyes and allow the tabla infused electronica of this poetic trapdoor to take over....
Here she comes
Catching on fire again
Casting all restraints to the wind
Fanning out her flame to little men
Well they never gonna take your
Heart away
Like a million to one
You're the one
I Would side with you
You're the one
Bright as you want to
You're the one
But they never gonna let you
Get away
Well the world will follow
Always
Here she comes
Sending the faithless home
Tending these fuses alone
Offending the ice age
You're the one.
-Little Torch by Chris Whitley
(from the album Rocket House)
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My kingdom for any or all of his gifts of music....as a gift.
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are you listening?
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R.I.P. CW.
Chris Whitley has been my last, most successful journey, a discovery.
The Entertainment Weekly in September 2001 proclaimed
""...The troubadour goes digital, looping in Middle Eastern chants, bongo beats, electronic beeps, and DJ Logic's scratches..."
Samplings of his music available here
For me, it was the magnificence of Pandora that begun it all. On the DC alternative rock channel, some true judge of musical talent, known only to me from a digital signature played a track of his called breaking your fall. Pandora, in all its tremendous wisdom explained the genres to me as follows:
mellow rock instrumentation
folk influences
mild rhythmic syncopation
acoustic sonority
a vocal-centric aesthetic
major key tonality
acoustic rhythm guitars
My first reaction, What the f@#$? Folk influences interspersing with mellow rock instrumentation and an accoustic sonority? I had to hear more.
I then find this.
He was Dave Matthews' musical mentor.
Amazon kicked in towards the discovery of this phenomenon. I got Rocket House.
The album enters macabre and yet very real elements of my sensibility and the haunting, almost unreal sounds generated in conjunction with simple, heart-wrenching vocals has my mind in a dizzy.
I close my eyes and allow the tabla infused electronica of this poetic trapdoor to take over....
Here she comes
Catching on fire again
Casting all restraints to the wind
Fanning out her flame to little men
Well they never gonna take your
Heart away
Like a million to one
You're the one
I Would side with you
You're the one
Bright as you want to
You're the one
But they never gonna let you
Get away
Well the world will follow
Always
Here she comes
Sending the faithless home
Tending these fuses alone
Offending the ice age
You're the one.
-Little Torch by Chris Whitley
(from the album Rocket House)
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My kingdom for any or all of his gifts of music....as a gift.
-----------------------------------
are you listening?
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R.I.P. CW.
