Grand Canyon

Nicholas Gunn - Beyond Grand Canyon (CD&DVD) (2006)
New Age / Instrumental | Easy CD-DA / Flac & Cue, No Log | Cover included | 5 % recovery | 305 MB | RS
DVD 9 | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | MPEG-2 DVD | PCM 2.0, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 | 75 min | 3.73 GB | 5 % recovery | RS
Audio CD & DVD: July 18, 2006 | Label: Gemini Sun Records

Beyond Grand Canyon is of a piece with all the albums he's released over the last decade or so, many of which have "Grand Canyon" somewhere in their titles. Favoring romantic harmonies and arrangements that border on Yanni 's terrain, Beyond Grand Canyon is on the lighter side of Gunn's oeuvre: often tending toward the sentimental, when a darker, more evocative touch might serve him better. Gunn plays flutes, stacks his voice in earthy, vaguely Native American-meets-Gothic choirs, and plays keyboards and percussion throughout the disc, accompanied sparingly by violinists (including Karen Briggs) and guitarists (including Johannes Linstead). Despite the Southwestern scenario, there's a surprising Celtic flavor to many of these tracks, including the title piece and "The Boneyard." And when it's not Celtic, Gunn brings a Latin and flamenco feel. On the companion DVD, the album tracks accompany a slickly produced slide show of Michael Fatali's color-saturated, painterly photographs, a vibrant, hyper-real Yang to Ansel Adams's stark and austere Yin…

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