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1.1 The Fad1.2 Coke (For Our Addicts)1.3 Gnossienne #11.4 Mandrake1.5 American Eulogy1.6 Better Get Hit in Your Soul1.7 Ba-Dee Image1.8 Greensleeves in Vermont1.9 Ode to Little Drummer Joy1.10 $...(Part 1)1.11 Old Man River (For Our Lost Ones)1.12 New Coke (Part 1)1.13 Driftin' on a Reed (For Our Dreamers)1.14 American Innocence1.15 $...(Part 2)1.16 Dukes of Hazzard1.17 Take on Me1.18 Femme Fatale1.19 New Coke (Part 2)1.20 Display Window Strut |
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| Description: | Guitarist Eric Hofbauer's "American Vanity" is more than a solo album. It's a musically and conceptually daring examination of a wide range of American songs and the different facets of American vanity and pride. Hofbauer approaches the music and his subject from many different angles, in a complex and richly imagined response to contemporary American culture. The music is by turns ironic, outraged, compassionate, and irreverent. Hofbauer, who has been called "an extraordinary guitarist" by Cadence Magazine and "the heir to the avant-Americana throne" by Jazz review.com is also a member of the Blueprint Project whose latest self titled album features bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Matt Wilson.He can play lightning fast phrases or slow blues, sentimental melodies or dissonant
flurries, and he?s certainly a brilliant player. Fans of guitar forays will be especially
amazed by what he does on several pieces?consistent musical brilliance.
?Ron Wynn, Nashville City Paper
?this is a muscular and audacious display of technical virtuosity?he?s got my attention.
?Dan McClenaghan, AllAboutJazz.com
His approach is stately as classical music but loaded with the nose-thumbing attitude of
American music (found also in Thelonious Monk, Charles Ives and Lightnin? Hopkins).
?Mark Keresman, JazzReview.com
Using hefty fingerstyle chops on acoustic guitar, he weaves bebop phrases, discrete bass
lines, prepared guitar, dissonance, and fragmented improvisation into a cool and unique
personal statement?Hofbauer sustains the personality of each arrangement while re-
examining its elements. [His] original pieces are equally interesting, angular and
thorny?
?Gary Lee Joyner, Acoustic Guitar |
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| Producer: |
Eric Hofbauer |
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| No. of tracks: |
20 |
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| Manufacturer No.: |
CNMP3.2 |
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