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Elemental Red

by Geoffrey Armes

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1.
Off the Island 04:04
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2.
Gypsy Hill 05:04
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3.
The Road 04:26
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4.
Hidden Child 05:37
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5.
Wind 05:56
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6.
Only You 03:14
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7.
Man in the Moon 05:35
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8.
The Work 03:30
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9.
Sea Lanes 05:47
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10.
Mountain 04:17
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11.
Country Heart 04:45
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12.
Music Flows 09:24
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Local Insomniac Music
Best of 2007
- #7 Elemental Red
--Rich Hughes WUSB

- Top solo album of 2007
- #6 of the Top 10 CDs of 2007
--Dan Herman Radio Crystal Blue

Energetically spiritual, 'Elemental Red' repays careful listening. From the nostalgic almost pop of 'Gypsy Hill' (track 2) to the fierce longing of 'Mountain' (track 10) to the sensual neo-traditional folk of 'Sea Lanes' (track 9) to the luxuriantly calm 'Man on the Moon', (track 7) this music travels an emotional landscape at once familiar and exotic.

'Elemental Red's acoustic verve, symbol and metaphor-laden poetry, and highly propulsive but acoustic production value is a restless depiction of quest. Name checking Jung, laden with quotes from JG Bennett, GI Gurdjieff, and perhaps most obviously Muhammed Subuh, this drive, while peaceful, is immediately felt. So many roads sung of, which road? Meta-roads? Pan Celtic guitar derivatives augmented by African percussion act as a trellis for elegantly eloquent searching song-writing that rides melody, that is sweet, honest, natural and highly affective.

"With this recording I rode two horses, the one pulled towards the magical illusion of overdubbing and effects while the other asked for the guitars to be in your face, the singer's breath in your ear. While I rode I gabbed about journeys inner and outer and in-between, couched in the languages I had learned along the way. In hotel rooms with shining simonised surfaces to admire, and luxuriant arm-chairs to relax in, I booked perky live performances, without loops and clever edits, to please you."

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released May 19, 2007

8 tracked in the East Village

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Geoffrey Armes Berlin, Germany

London to Berlin to NYC to Berlin. Music. Accompaniment: Ailey, Graham, Cunningham. Keys, guitars, percussion, bass. Parkinson's.

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