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ARTIST
THAYER, LLOYD
TITLE
Twenty20
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 698CD
FTR 698CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/15/2022
"It has been a couple of years (that felt like a lifetime) since we released
lloyd Thayer
's last album,
Duets
(FTR 406LP, 2020), which he recorded with the drummer
Jerome Deupree
. The intervening time has been weird as hell, but Thayer (master of every string that's ever been strung) has made the decision to create a fantastic, sprawling solo suite for himself. And now it is time to share the beauty with you. Unlike the music on
Duets
, the piece here was played entirely on double-necked Weissenborn guitar, although the sounds are altered and layered in ways that are a far cry from the delicate slide work for which the Weissenborn is best known. And if there's not a temple bowl in the mix somewhere, I'll eat a bottleneck! Still, many of the same tactics employed on
Duets
, like mixing Eastern sonances with blues-based art music, are on full display on
Twenty20
. The extended piece is broken into distinct segments, with different moods, tones, and styles of attack, but the transitions tend to be subtle. You are drifting amidst cool tendrils of acoustic guitar and almost before you know it, there are sparking cables of electrical menace hanging nearby while ghost-tones quiver ominously in the darkness. Because this piece evolved over the two years it did, I am assuming there's a dark narrative thread lurking somewhere in its interior. But here's the thing -- lloyd's playing and writing are as beautiful to listen to as ever, so I'm not sure it's really worth getting bogged down in interpretation. Perhaps the best idea is to just go with the exquisite flow of the music, and damn the torpedoes. Just dig the beauty. Y'know?" --
Byron Coley
, 2022
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