(2021) Gyan Riley - Silver Lining


Review:
Gyan Riley is a virtuoso guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn whose unique work expands the rich legacy of classical guitar music with influences from minimalism, flamenco, bossa nova, and the folk-jazz sounds of John Fahey and Leo Kottke. His second CD for Tzadik, recorded during the pandemic lockdown, is his best yet’a breathtaking and fabulous collection of music for solo guitar. Fluid, compelling, and beautiful, this is music you will return to again and again. “This album pays homage to several of my musical mentors. I am forever grateful to these artists for the inspiration they have given me, not only for introducing me to unfamiliar music, but to new ways of hearing, seeing, and interpreting the world. This recording is also a reflection on the unexpectedly good things that for me have grown out of the hardships of the pandemic: new experiences, lessons learned, skills acquired, creative solutions, and adaptation inspired by necessity.” — Gyan Riley





Track Listing:
1. Silver Lining (for Dusan Bogdanovic)
2. Three Fragments from Within: Broken Record
3. Three Fragments from Within: Toucher les Nuages
4. Three Fragments from Within: Appa-Tango
5. Sparkling Pines (for Julian Bream)
6. Sometimes You Go Back for More (for Kenton Youngstrom)
7. Cyclone (for Aniello Desiderio)
8. Kaleidoscope (for Terry Riley)
9. The Old Castle (for John Zorn)


Media Report:
Genre: acoustic, classical, jazz, world
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits