Perry, Jordan: Witness Tree - VINYL LP

Perry, Jordan: Witness Tree - VINYL LPTitle: Witness Tree Artist: Perry, Jordan Label: Feeding Tube Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 769791974111 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2019 07 19 Number of Discs: 1 "Vinylization of a self released cassette issued earlier this year by our favorite Virginia based guitar player. Witness Tree is a brilliant follow up to Perry's eponymous debut LP (FTR 376LP, 2018), and expands upon the form abstractions he first displayed there. Mr. Perry has a firm and solid

Title: Witness Tree
Artist: Perry, Jordan
Label: Feeding Tube
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 769791974111
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2019-07-19
Number of Discs: 1

"Vinylization of a self-released cassette issued earlier this year by our favorite Virginia-based guitar player. Witness Tree is a brilliant follow-up to Perry's eponymous debut LP (FTR 376LP, 2018), and expands upon the form-abstractions he first displayed there. Mr. Perry has a firm and solid touch to his string wrangling, but unlike many of his contemporaries, he doesn't seem to feel compelled to resolve all the melodic questions he raises. Perry often stops in a place he finds interesting, repeating rhythmic figures while trying out variations on the note/chord sequence that stopped him in the first place. It's a goddamn fascinating approach and allows him to explore textual aspects of the acoustic guitar that are not investigated often enough. In a certain sense, Perry's playing feels akin to that of Jon Collin's, since both guitarists appear to acknowledge the American Primitive School, while approaching it's compositional orthodoxy with an attitude that substitutes experimental tendencies for blues-base thinking. But the way they resolve these themes is quite different. Perry's slower pacing and precise string selection eschews the aleatory for a kind of mindfulness that is as invigorating as I usually find randomness. A deep and lovely dig into the outer edges of acoustic guitar rambling." -Byron Coley, 2019 Edition of 400; includes download slip. 45rpm.

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