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Dan Cunningham : I think of home (US,2003)*°°
Described as making music in a “new Appalachian” style I had to try to dig deeper into what could be the essence of the “old” Appalachian style (see introduction above), something with which I only partly succeeded. Perhaps I still don’t understand the essence, for me this reference still sounds much too far away, even when one or two tracks gave a different interpretation thematically, which are perhaps fine for the specialist to discover.
The CD starts with the strongest expressions, with subtle guitar pieces, with songs on top of it, some cello, double acoustic guitar. Favourite there are the beautiful and subtle “Plant a Garden”, a quietly flowing warm stream reflection like in a jazzfolk wave, followed by the simple and beautiful cello and harp improvisational composition of “Across the summer’s flowered fields”, and the fine short idea of impressionist double tracked guitar-fingerpicking of “Seculed Pooling Stream” with some cello, and water streaming. After that the ideas of compositions, especially structural and in rhythms take easier solutions which do not contribute automatically to the purest musical inspiration, and also don't give any more chance to more transcendent emotions in inspiration. In that way the carrying voice and potentional guitar, with arrangements only partly succeeded in carrying me, still with pleasure, to some place outside a more common ground.
