Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Alternate Landscapes (2019), by Jon Durant

This album should have been called Alien Landscapes instead of Alternate Landscapes, because Jon Durant’s guitar sounds are literally out of this world!

In terms of its sonic feel, Alternate Landscapes falls somewhere between George Harrison’s Electronic Sound (1969) and Andy Summers’ Mysterious Barricades (1988).

 

If you’re going to fall somewhere, that’s not a bad place to land.

 

The album also recalls elements of Summers and Robert Fripp’s Bewitched (1984), as well as Fripp’s Frippertronics solo albums.

 

That’s an illustrious pedigree of sound, and Durant should be honored and privileged to be in such hallowed company.

 

In terms of the artistic and sonic possibilities of the guitar, this is essential listening and belongs in the collection of anyone devoted to the instrument. It is among Jon Durant’s finest work.

 

--Raj Manoharan

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