Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity will be releasing guitar innovator
Michael Hedges critically acclaimed album Aerial Boundaries on limited edition
180gm vinyl! Aerial Boundaries is unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking
albums in acoustic guitar history. This is the record that presented Michael
Hedges to the world as the ultimate acoustic guitar visionary, stretching the
limits of the instrument to accommodate his uncanny musical ideas. There are
moments on the record where it seems impossible that so much music is coming
from one man and his guitar. Rich in classical harmony and master of fast
finger techniques, Hedges' tracks feature layer upon layer of musical
complexity and every performance expands the dynamic range of the instrument.
The songs
on Aerial Boundaries are all beautiful and haunting and it is this emphasis on
composition over technique that makes this such an important recording.
Stirring, complex compositions like “Rickover's Dream,” “Spare Change,” and an
ingenious instrumental take of Neil Young's “After the Gold Rush” are on full
display. He could be seductively quiet and suddenly explosive...slow or fast,
timid or thunderous.
The liner
notes on the 180g vinyl gatefold jacket assures the listener that the guitar is
the origin for every sound heard...attacking his instrument, snapping strings,
banging on the fingerboard with his right hand...Hedges has electronically
manipulated some of the guitar sounds to an almost unrecognizable point, yet he
still managed to create music of untarnished beauty.
“There was
simply no one like him,” Bonnie Raitt said of Michael Hedges following his
untimely death in 1997, “a very gifted performer, arranger and composer whose
music sounded like nothing that had come before it." Boundaries remains
the late composer-guitarist's seminal work, and its innovations in technique,
tuning, tone, and intensity remain key texts in modern acoustic circles.
Tracks:
1. Aerial
Boundaries
2.
Bensusan
3.
Rickover's Dream
4. The
Ragamuffin
5. After
the Gold Rush
6. Hot
Type
7. Spare
Change
8.
Threesome
9. The
Magic Farmer
Produced
by Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, Steven Miller
Engineered
by Steven Miller, Oliver Di Cicco, Bill Mueller, Michael Hedges
Mastered
for this release by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
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