Bookmaker Rec.
Seabuckthorn : In Nightfall (UK,2011)***'
This fourth release of Seabuckthorn, the project of Andy Cartwright, sounds somewhat in the vein of James Blackshaw. The warm pickings are very open; they follow its excursions through a melody-line, but then break open to moody experimentation. When the picking unfolds, a second slide electric guitar adds accents on the chords. A few more accents are with different instruments on each track, like cello on the first or scraped metal and musical boxes on the second track, finding back its tonal spheres into a comparable atmosphere, like with a variation with a portal to a dream. This allows more and more experimental openings later, fleeing more independent, also dream-like, on its own with bubbling chords and the sounds of a variety of instruments. The album is a mood piece mostly, leads to a sphere of nothingness and then sounds very quickly over. The label released 100 cdrs only.
