Acoustic Isles

Christy Doran-acoustic guitar

Christy Doran has with this cd confirmed that he’s one of the most inventive and bracing acoustic guitar improvisors going. He’s experimental without being self-indulgent, propulsive without being monotonous, novel without being gimmicky. Sometimes using electronic modifications to his mostly acoustic palette, Doran has created a new sort of electro-acoustic (or acoustic-electro) genre for guitar. It doesn’t always come off, but it succeeds the large majority of the time. (Note: this cd is part of a 2-disc package, the second disc of which is a DVD. This DVD wouldn’t play on my late model DVD player due to an apparent format restriction).

Creative Works Records

CWI04P/50

www.creativeworks,ch

Richard Grooms