JON DURANT: Flood

Jon Durant

Flood

© 2007 Alchemy Records (607387102527)

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Progressive instrumental music drawing from new age, rock and jazz.

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Jon Durant's Flood is a milestone recording from this unique artist. Blending the ethno percussive grooves of his recording Brief Light with new elements such as sparkling 12 string guitars and heavy detuned guitars in conjunction with Tony Levin's extraordinary bass and Vinny Sabatino's brilliant percussives, the album takes listeners to sonic landscapes unlike any they've heard before.

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  • atmospheric masterpiece
    author: René

    Since his second CD, Silent Extinction Beyond The Zero from 1997, Jon Durant plays the “cloud guitar”. Don’t confuse this instrument with that strangely formed six-string with which Prince is showing off, but think of a woolly sound, which expands like a cloud and which exhibits as far as the sound goes similarities with the flowing sounds created by the E-Bow. The owner of Alchemy Records shows his trademark also on Flood, on which he is assisted by his regular companions Vinny Sabatino and Tony Levin. Partly because Sabatino hasn’t used his drum-kit this time and concentrated solely on percussion-instruments, it has become a fine open production, which, for some parts because of the use of acoustic guitars, sounds more melodic and warmer than the work of David Torn and the soundscapes of Robert Fripp. Linear Formulation for instance is very modest; slowly the patterns, touched slightly by the electric guitar and fretless bass, murmer on, after which accents are being put in by a bansuri-flute which was brought about by synthesizers. More severe like King Crimson is Thinly Veiled Threat, while in Invisible Dragons Abound Levin’s bass sounds exactly like on Peter Gabriel’s Don’t Give Up. Last mentioned also wanders around in the sensitive closing piece Here Comes The Flood, an interpretation for electric guitars which stays closely to the original. Also very special is the triptych Sparse Fragments which is spread all over the album. Fragment 1 contains a short, loop-like theme and in the second fragment it looks as if the Mellotron out of Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats from The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway has been sampled. The last fragment joins these elements together and spreads it out into a beautiful threatening, slightly symphonic climax. Just like Durant’s previous five albums, Flood is strongly atmospheric; like a blanket of clouds it is sometimes intimate and calming and then dark and frightening.

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