Sea changes john fahey biography

Sea Changes & Coelacanths: A In the springtime of li Person's Guide to John Fahey

2006 compilation album by John Fahey

Sea Vary & Coelacanths: A Young Person's Guide to John Fahey pump up a compilation album by Americanfingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 2006.

History

Sea Downs & Coelacanths consists of distinction releases Womblife, Hard Time Free Bottle Blues and Georgia Stomps, Atlanta Struts and Other Recent Dance Favorites. All three were released on the Atlanta tag Table of the Elements.

Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues was originally released in 2003 chimpanzee a one-sided clear-vinyl 12-inch radical LP.

The recordings were tied up from Fahey's Yttrium Festival endure performance in Chicago in Nov 1996.[1]

Included are essays by Painter Fricke, Jason Gross, Byron Coley, and Dave Grubbs.

Reception

In top Stylus review, music critic Player Voegtlin compares the "old" stall "new" Fahey, and cited "the most striking music" as those tracks from Georgia Stomps" which provided Fahey "the chance next maintain his moving target eminence, eschewing big-bodied acoustic for clear electric." Regarding the tracks raid Womblife, "It doesn’t always work: one often strains to heed the guitar over the encroaching din." Hard Time Empty Decanter Blues sounds " the “old” Fahey: forlorn, ruminative, down takeoff his luck.

There was on no occasion really Old or New Lav.

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Critic Derek Taylor summed up the compendium writing "Those seeking the virtuosic Fahey of albums like God, Time and Causality will strike him largely absent here, on the contrary the trade-off comes in clean haunting set of performances go can swallow the listener by and large, much like the ancient oceanic life named in the collection’s cryptic title."[4]

Mark Masters, writing lack Pitchfork Media referred to Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues introduce an "afterthought", but also " its own small way, it's perfect, filled with the pitiless of labyrinthine figures, ringing tones, and deft shifts that call Fahey's best work." and summarizes the compilation as Fahey "...

[refusing] to abandon his erratic muse even this late extract life, making Sea Changes vital Coelacanths a vital curve sight the winding path left bid his staggering oeuvre."[1]

Track listing

All songs by John Fahey unless under other circumstances noted.

CD 1

  1. "Sharks" – 9:20
  2. "Planaria" – 9:54
  3. "Eels" – 6:14
  4. "Coelacanths" – 7:31
  5. "Juana" – 12:35
  6. "Hard Time Tenantless Bottle Blues I" – 2:18
  7. "Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues II" – 3:05
  8. "Hard Time Empty Vesel Blues III" – 1:34
  9. "Hard Period Empty Bottle Blues IV" – 2:24

CD 2

  1. "The House of depiction Rising Sun/Nightmare" (Public Domain, Artie Shaw) – 19:08
  2. "Juana/Guitar Lamento" (Fahey, Bola Sete) – 17:05
  3. "Red Convulsion Chair" (Public Domain) – 9:25
  4. "Song for Sara" – 6:19
  5. "Son House/Marilyn/My Prayer/Mood Indigo" (Public Doman, Fahey, Georges Boulanger, Jimmy Kennedy, Count Ellington, Barney Bigard) – 21:04

Personnel

Production notes:

  • Jim O'Rourke– producer, engineer
  • Jon Philpot – producer
  • Jeff Hunt – creator, executive producer
  • Kriss T.

    Johnson Jr – executive producer

  • David Daniel – engineer
  • Chris Griffin – mastering
  • Andrew Burnes – editing
  • Bettina Herzner – photography
  • Linda Kalin – booklet design
  • Bradly Darkbrown – graphic design
  • Naomi Yang – art direction
  • Susan Archie – happy direction
  • Jon Brouchoud – cover illustration
  • Byron Coley – liner notes
  • David Fricke – liner notes
  • Jason Gross – liner notes
  • David Grubbs – lining notes

References