Erik Wøllo - Blue Sky Red Guitars

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Artists:		Exile (Erik Wøllo), Erik Wøllo
Album:		Blue Sky Red Guitars

Released by:		Spotted Peccary
Year:		2004

Nr. of discs:		1
Nr. of tracks:		11
Total playtime:		00:55:43

Track list

1. Morning Dew

2. Blue Sky

3. Red Guitars

4. Sedona

5. Destiny

6. Silent Nostalgia

7. Moving

8. Computerlove

9. Rain Tree

10. In The Hall Of Mirrors

11. Timeless

Artists: Exile (Erik Wøllo), Erik Wøllo
Album: Blue Sky Red Guitars

Genres: Electroacoustic, Jazzy / loungy

Erik Wøllo's exploration into the creative possibilities of the guitar is rich with texture and melody, highly sculpted and detailed - a pulsing vibrant and atmospherically three-dimentional experience.
Influenced by his travels to the North American Southwest, Wøllo manifests the natural wonders of the area through his instrument, painting profound vistas with many types of acoustic, electric,
electronic, and classical guitar voices.

Ambient, rhythmic and melodic music stylistic in the same ambient era as Guitar Nova. Also influences from Wind Journey and Emotional Landscapes. Layers of various acoustic guitars, with percussion and some electronic treatments.

The album includes 2 cover versions of Computerlove and In the Hall of Mirrors, both written by the German group Kraftwerk. Originally synthetic and computerized music, here for the first time performed on acoustic guitars!

All Music Composed, Arranged and Produced by Erik Wøllo, except track 8 and 10, composed by Kraftwerk and arranged by Erik Wøllo.

Instruments:
Acoustic 6 and 12 string guitars, soprano guitar, e-bow, slide, balalaika, mandolin, electric bass. For some bass and percussion sounds, VST plug-in instruments by Steinberg and Native Instruments were used.

Review extracts:

John Diliberto / Echoes: "Erik Wollo's music floats with the grace of a hawk, effortlessly riding air currents that are left painted and glistening in his wake. But what sounds effortless is actually deeply layered, intricately woven and composed with a poetic language."

Lloyd Barde / Backroads Music: "We might have said this before, but this is guitar music unlike anything previously heard. And one fantastic CD, another in a long line of Wollo discs that bear comments like “masterpiece” and “stunning achievement”. Rich beyond description with texture and melody, this music is highly scuplyed and detailed."

Bill Binkelman / Wind & Wire: "...stunningly beautiful, expertly recorded, and showcases his apparently boundless talent for composing in a wide variety of styles, from cheery acoustic-guitar driven new age/adult contemporary ]...] to a more introspective Windham Hill-ish guitar-oriented soundscape... Is this Wøllo's best guitar-oriented album so far? Perhaps it is."