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ProgNaut
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Published on: 17 Feb 2007
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MJBrady
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Published on: 10 Feb 2007
Classically trained violinist James Sudakow has paired his training with his list in influential artists to create a little different take on violin fronted instrumental music. His taste for the sound of electric guitar is integrated into a cd full of what I would have to call hard rock instrumentals. Some of the songs seems almost a little on the new age side, with just a hint of Jean-Luc Ponty, but where Ponty travelled more into the realms of jazz, new age, and classic 70's fusion while featuring line-ups that dazzled fans with their own virtuostic contributions, James Sudakow stays in the front of his band, and is the main showman for the music being presented, and his band plays things fairly safe as a backdrop to James' playing.
His taste for rock music shows in some of the tonal sounds he gets from his violin, raunchy and raw, with some distortion, reminds a little of what Jerry Goodman was doing back in the days of Mahavishnu. As stated, this is a nice cd full of creative violin playing, the songs are fairly straight forward with limited arrangements that appeal to progressive fans, but it does show an artist that is taking some leaps into a musical genre that has a very limited amount of violinists. I for one truely enjoy hearing the tonal aspects of the instrument in rock, or fusion settings, and the scene could use some more talents like James Sudakow creating new music.
If James Sudakow continues in this style of music, I hope he takes a page from the other greats that found musical success having violin fronted music, and that is to find some world class musicians to play with, and let them shine, what violinists like Ponty, Lockwood, Seifert, Urbaniak, Goodman, O'Connor, Sloan, had going for them, is the creative backdrop of equally impressive musicians to not only inspire their own playing, but to compliment every aspect of the music they were creating. James has the talent, and some really nice ideas, I enjoyed some of the moments of this cd more than others, as my first exposure to his music, I was pleasantly impressed to know that there is another up and coming violinist coming up, so from here on out, my ears are wide open to hear what he does next.
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