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Cian Nugent EP (IR,2007)****
“I am an 18 year old self-taught guitarist from Ireland. I have been playing for roughly four years. My musical passions would obviously be blues and folk from the 30s and 40s although I am in love with John Fahey and the later, more abstract solo guitarists, despite never having heard these people when I started writing solo guitar music. I also really enjoy the modern solo guitarists such as James Blackshaw, Jack Rose, Cul De Sac, etc., who I feel are really pushing the limits forward in a great way.”
Despite being so young, it is the Fahey tradition (especially well done on "I will take the top of a tall cedar and break a tender sprout"), of taking real fundaments to expansion, which delivered Cian Nugent the right ideas to do so for his own explorations and experiences, during writing and composing. Only “The Wagoners Lad” is a traditional (taken from Buell Kazee). But it is “Baka Dance” which more clearly refers to older blues and ragtime, changing speed and transforming its activity in the theme a few times, a track which then ends quite unexpectedly. On the last and 6th track is added a second layer of string stretching sounds, with a rather violin-, and musical saw-like effect, while the Faheyesque blues keeps dominating and seemingly restricting the strangeness added to it.
A promising guitarist, who I assume will grow steadily and further in the near future.
CDR of only 100 in hand printed package (design by Conor Lumsden).
