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Composer: Edgar MeyerPerformer: Edgar Meyer
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- First Things First
- Roundabout
- Interlude 1
- Please DonĀ?t Feed the Bear
- Whatever
- In Hindsight
- Interlude 2
- The Low Road
- Just As I Thought
- Catch and Release
- Interlude 3
- Woody Creek
- Degrees of Separation
- Interlude 4
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Music Review: LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!!!
Rating: 3 Stars
That really seems to be all that Edgar Meyer is saying with this new album. Because he plays all the instruments on the album, the record is less of a record and more of Edgar Meyer having a field day in a recording studio. The result is a bunch of superficial sounding, incredibly doctored music. Meyer's collaborations with the masters of other instruments are much better recordings than this show-off solo project.
Don't get me wrong, Meyer is a fantastic bass player. Probably the best and most creative player alive today by most standards. His piano playing on the album is alright, though it leaves a small amount of musicality to be desired. However the playing on the other instruments is really quite basic and in some places, rather clumsy. All the other instruments really provide more of a color change from bass and piano. This isn't a huge problem, it just leaves more to be desired when Meyer has recorded similar types of music with such greats like Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Mike Marshall and others.
The other problem with this album is that it sounds incredibly over-produced. Some sections of certain pieces seem to have been not overdubbed, but two independent tracks that have very little in common musically that have been spliced together. The most notable sections where this occurs are secitons of "Roundabout" and "Don't Feed the Bear." The result is music that sounds very doctored. Some sections of the album don't even sound like they could be realistically performed by any ensemble. Everything really sounds like an over-produced studio gimmick.
Whether it's the production or the music, I'm not really moved by the music on this album like I am by a lot of Meyer's other compositions on other recordings. This album is just too hard sift through to really find music I can sit down and enjoy. It's worth a listen just to hear Meyer's stellar bass playing, but you can hear that on his other much better recordings. Not to mention, stellar playing by other fantastic musicians. Don't throw away a lot of cash on this self-indulgent solo project, it's not really worth it.
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