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A THOUSAND OTHER NAMES G.E. Stinson, guitarist of the internationally acclaimed, grammy-award winning world music/fusion band, SHADOWFAX, takes his six-string muse to another level. Also features guitarist Nels Cline (The Geraldine Fibbers, Thurston Moore), Brad Dutz & Japanese vocalist, Kaoru. |
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A THOUSAND OTHER NAMES - 1996 Birdcage Records - CD - Price: $4.99
Songs: Meadows, Marie Marie, Dirty Boy, Walk In The Fire, My Paradise, Disappear,
Sister Witness, Antioch
REVIEW: "Imagine Leonard Cohen fronting the Cocteau Twins. Imagine bizarre guitars, exotic percussion, female backing vocal lines as if they were an instrument. Imagine all of this taking place live before your eyes."
~ BAM MAGAZINE
A Thousand Other Names was founded by guitarist G.E. Stinson as a vehicle for his vocal compositions. Stinson's explorations of American folk music forms began with the Pentecostal atmospheres of his early life growing up in Oklahoma and continued as he traveled through the South and the Midwest following his fathers railroad employment. After settling in Chicago, Stinson studied blues with many of the prominent musicians of the era such as Hound Dog Taylor, Cash McCall, Brewer Phillips and others.
In 1972, Stinson co-founded the trail-blazing world music/fusion group, Shadowfax. During his tenure with this group, he performed and composed on seven recordings, toured extensively in the US, Europe, South America and Japan. In 1988, Stinson and Shadowfax were honored with a GRAMMY AWARD from the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences.
Nels Cline, aside from his acclaimed work with The Geraldine Fibbers, has played with the likes of Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Lee Renaldo and Vinny Golia. Kaoru, who moved to California in 1986 from her native Tokyo, is a veteran composer, arranger and performer who has released five albums of her own in the UK and Japan. Brad Dutz, described by Josef Woodward as "A merger of Spike Lee And Spike Jones..." is the percussionist supreme with over 100 album credits to his name. Brad has played with such musicians and bands as David Benoit, Tribal Tech, Leo Kottke, Rickie Lee Jones and Terrence Trent D'Arby.
"G.E. Stinson lets his fingers scratch out an almost funky guitar riff about three quarters of the way to a standard realization before strangling it and beating it into a dissonant chord. In the middle, seatted on a high stool, Japanese vocalist Kaoru moans a word, cuts a phrase. Her microphone is plugged into an effects machine; she twiddles it's controls to sample and repeat her vocals for rhythmic input, or to cathedralize them for godvoice authority. The mass gets denser. The intervals get smaller and smaller until everything blends into a roar. It sounds as if the roof has been ripped oft of Hell."
~ LA TIMES
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