Video zu Rhapsody From Sixth Avenue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR_svvw6tus
Das dritte Album von John Vaughan (nach
Somewhere in Europe von 1976 und
Postcards from the road von 2002)
The Notting Hill Gazette schreibt:
It is surely more than serendipity that John Vaughan's
magnificent new album Rhapsody from Sixth Avenue came out on the
40th anniversary of the Beatles White Album - the variety and
complexity of musical experimentation and production techniques
(superbly led by Ramesh Weeratunga), the quixotic switches from
ballad to reggae, guitar solo to Joe Kucera's haunting soprano
saxophone, weeping guitar solos to Richard de Bastion's
marvelous piano all show an artist tipping his hat to his heroes
of yesterday while at the same time, in Rainy Day in Liverpool
saying what feels like his farewell to his boyhood heroes on a
pilgrimage to his musical Mecca.
And so to the songs - an exhilarating mixture of styles and
themes - nostalgia, rain and mortality, mixing it up with upbeat
themes of optimism summed up by "In the End" - - yet instead of
"The love you take being equal to the love you make", we have
instead here the fatalism of "In the end it really makes no
difference, you always end up where you're going to be". And
here is the lie exposed - John Vaughan has made a great
difference, to a great many people, and his new album shouts out
his artistic talent from the rooftops of Sixth Avenue back
through time to the long-empty balconies of Hagelberger Street.
Rhapsody sublime - The Notting Hill Gazette hails a masterpiece.
