Review on FAME page

There are quite a few solo acoustic guitar CDs out there right now, and thank goodness for that, but the lone electric has been overlooked, and that's too bad because, as anyone who plays knows, the electric obtains an entirely different result even when completely undistorted: the harmonics are different, you can't rely on that sweet acoustic sustain, etc. This forces a slightly different way of playing. Here, Adam O'Connor runs through a dozen self-composed tunes revivifying the sound of the unaccompanied electric pretty much as Les Paul first invented it but compositionally modified by what quickly became much jazzier applications in Jim Hall and other players.

Hard to tell if these are melodic improvs or pre-written compositions…or both…but it hardly matters, as what's of import is the degree of development guided by a germinal idea, and O'Connor constantly keeps to that, maintaining a path forever returning to the spine of each cut despite innumerable tempo shifts, asides, decorations, and extensions. Perhaps no cut exemplifies that better than Karava, a mutant ballad, the closing track basing in an adagio but turning every which way in locating contrasts and mellow vivacities..........

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http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p05739.htm