Jonas Hellborg, Shawn Lane - Icon - A Transcontinental Gathering
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Artist: Jonas Hellborg, Shawn LaneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Music Label: Bardo Records
Soundtracks:
- Anchor
- Mirror
- Vehicle
- Escape
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Music Review: Outerspace fusion
Rating: 5 Stars
This album is just brilliant. Unbelievable. Jonas Hellborg has taken the direction of Good People In Times Of Evil and rocketed it to another galaxy altogether. The players are the same (with the addition of Selvaganesh's brother V.Umamahesh on vocals) but with a few key stylistic twists - this is more of a concept/vibe album rather than a collection of specific tunes, also a myriad great guitar tones and effects from Shawn Lane (the previous album had more of a standard clean type of tone) give the album a kind of mysterious, trance like feel. The addition of vocals really frees the band to go where no one has ever gone before, with spectacular results. Umamahesh's vocals are very much in sympathy with the vibe of the rest of the band. Hellborg says that the brothers' father, legendary percussionist T.H "Vikku" Vinayakram was the one who suggested his other son take up vocal duties. Umamahesh pulls off this formidable task remarkably well. To me, both the highlight and the most haunting part of this album is Shawn Lane's just gorgeous guitar work. Lane reveals the guitar on a plane previously unknown. A unique combination of unfathomable technique and limitless musical ideas just pours forth from the guitar in all kinds of tones, shades and colorations. Lane's artistry demonstrates not only his considerable mastery of the Carnatic Indian style of melodic ornamentation, but virtually every other style of music you could possibly have heard. This creates an incredibly multilayered sort of fabric. Of all Lane's beautiful, amazing work over the years, his playing on "Mirror" is at the same time the most beautiful and the most amazing guitar I have ever heard. "Escape" which closes the album is another highlight for it's sheer exuberance. Approximating the "tilana" style of Carnatic melody which is traditionally performed as a closing number in South Indian classical concerts, the track features some absolutely stupefying interplay between the musicians. All in all, this is a landmark achievement, and even perhaps ever so small a consolation, given Shawn Lane's untimely passing, that such milestones as this were reached before his unparalleled voice was forever transported from us.
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