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Andreas Martin : Live im loft (D,2005)***°'
Andreas Martin is Christoph Heeman’s older brother, member of HNAS since the “Melchior” album (HNAS is listed on next page) and Mimir. Andreas has a beautiful clear style quality, which for me as a non-guitarist are still somewhat hard to describe. He uses some guitar percussion during playing on “Border Towns” from Preston Reed. He interprets on acoustic guitar three Michael Hedges tracks, two Preston Reed tracks and a Michael Gulezian track. The least I can say is that he knows what he’s doing. There’s a technical mastery and colourful tone variation, and also a rhythmic colourful balance in the melodic evolution. There’s an underlying rhythmic bluesy feeling on “Border Towns” from Preston Reed, and warm moving tensions elsewhere, and everywhere strong rhythmic pulses and rhythmical colour-contrasts. His style is distinctive enough to call him a great guitarist.
Included is a video on mpeg viewable on any PC.
-(PS. Michael Gulezian has items reviewed on next page)-
