Kottke, Leo & Mike Gordon / Noon
| Album: | Noon | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Kottke, Leo & Mike Gordon | Added: | Oct 2020 | |
| Label: | Ato Records | |||
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 24, 2020: | Hanging in the bone yard
The Only One |
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Album Review
Tom McCarter
Reviewed 2020-10-19
Reviewed 2020-10-19
Reviewed: 10-19-2020
Reviewer: Tom McCarter
Genre: General
FCCs: none
If You Like: John Fahey. Peter Lang, Rob Wasserman, Ry Cooder
Review: Fingerstyle guitarist extraordinaire Kottke & Phisn bassist Gordon join forces once again to create a batch of cool songs over complex playing, mostly originals. They take turns on vocals.
Track Review (favorites denoted by *):
**1/ Ants (4:40) - guitar starts> midtempo hesitating instrumental duet> quick stop
*2/ I Am Random (3:56) - guitar/bass start> midtempo song> quick stop on whistle
3/Noon To Noon (2:54) - guitar starts> midtempo song> quick stop
4/ Sheets (3:24) - guitar starts> midtempo song> quick fade
**5/ Peel (4:37)- guitar starts> slow song with harmonized vocals builds to midtempo> quick fade
6/ How Many People Are You (4:06) - pig snorts start> midtempo song morphs into spoken word conversation to end
*7/Alphabet Street (4:08) -vocal starts> bouncy midtempo song> soft crescendo end
*8/The Only One (2:48) -guitar starts> quirku uptempo song> quick stop
*9/ Flat Top (2:21) - guitar starts> uptempo instrumental duet> soft crescendo end
**10/ Eight Miles High (5:17) - guitar starts> uptempo song> quick stop
*11/ From The Cradle To The Grave (3:05) - guitar starts> uptempo song with a reggae feel & vocal harmonies> quick stop
Reviewer: Tom McCarter
Genre: General
FCCs: none
If You Like: John Fahey. Peter Lang, Rob Wasserman, Ry Cooder
Review: Fingerstyle guitarist extraordinaire Kottke & Phisn bassist Gordon join forces once again to create a batch of cool songs over complex playing, mostly originals. They take turns on vocals.
Track Review (favorites denoted by *):
**1/ Ants (4:40) - guitar starts> midtempo hesitating instrumental duet> quick stop
*2/ I Am Random (3:56) - guitar/bass start> midtempo song> quick stop on whistle
3/Noon To Noon (2:54) - guitar starts> midtempo song> quick stop
4/ Sheets (3:24) - guitar starts> midtempo song> quick fade
**5/ Peel (4:37)- guitar starts> slow song with harmonized vocals builds to midtempo> quick fade
6/ How Many People Are You (4:06) - pig snorts start> midtempo song morphs into spoken word conversation to end
*7/Alphabet Street (4:08) -vocal starts> bouncy midtempo song> soft crescendo end
*8/The Only One (2:48) -guitar starts> quirku uptempo song> quick stop
*9/ Flat Top (2:21) - guitar starts> uptempo instrumental duet> soft crescendo end
**10/ Eight Miles High (5:17) - guitar starts> uptempo song> quick stop
*11/ From The Cradle To The Grave (3:05) - guitar starts> uptempo song with a reggae feel & vocal harmonies> quick stop
Track Listing
| 1. | Ants | 6. | How Many People Are You | |||
| 2. | I Am Random | 7. | Alphabet Street | |||
| 3. | Noon to Noon | 8. | The Only One | |||
| 4. | Sheets | 9. | Flat Top | |||
| 5. | Peel | 10. | Eight Miles High | |||
| 11. | From the Circle to the Grave | |||||