Secret Sister Music 
Greg Weeks : "Fire in the Arms of the Sun" (1997)****'
"Many, many wonderful lines of intospection are to be found on this melancoly, stripped to the core example of the songwriters art. Quiet desperation and a stoic sense of bleak realisation of the nature of things seems to haunt this CD. Weeks delivers the songs in a breathy quiet intimate voice mainly accompanied by acoustic guitar. This stark approach means the lyrics come trough with a clear intensity that invites the listener's attention. Those with an appetite for undemontrative expressions of solitary ruminations at least. A lot of the melody lines and guitar playing are exquisite. In fact the beauty in these songs may remind some of the much revered Nick Drake in that there is a fragility at the centre of most of Weeks' songs on this CD, yet an uncomprimising strength in articulating that fragility. Check out songs like 'Shady Skies' and 'Lullabies', 'Leaves and Limerance", 'Molly Bloom', 'Trading Touch','Follow' and 'King Rides By'. There isn't a bad track on the CD. From start to finish I find it grows and grows -a classic." L.Woolfe
1000 copies only. Sold out at source.
Keyhole Rec. Greg Weeks : Bleecker Station (US,1999)****
Greg Weeks' "Bleecker Station" album I highly appreciate. The shortness of the album, the minimality of instrumentation, the rough recording, almost like a lo fi production with spontaneous concentrated bunch of ideas of the moment the qualities are all there, like pearls, slightly dusted. Our s/sw producer thinks -although he recognize the qualities- "the naked rough recording doesn't do justice to the songs", but I personally think that even the strangest moment of the 2nd acoustic guitar playing a badly phrased and slightly out of parts "Dawn a dark corridor" doesn't spoil it for me, rather it gives a short moment of uncomfortable emotions the effect still fitting on within the lyrical content. All songs reflecting thoughts and feelings arising from a relationship gone/going sour. The first 6 songs were written and recorded over 8 days on a 4 track with the deliberate aim of cataloging impressions of a stormy relationship. Each song is related to a painting inside the booklet. The cover shows a reference to the 70's Italian progressive Saint Just album "Casa Del Lago". Greg's interest goes beyond s/sw and folk, goes beyond the obvious and mediocre or any self-prooving styles giving his music the right touch for depth once called progressive. People liking the poetic depth of Nick Drake, mixed with the spontaneous idea explorations of new writers like Bonnie "Prince" Billie, but within a scene of what has its sensitivity in the seventies should definily try and buy this album. L.Woolfe, out s/sw producer said "As an introduction to Greg Weeks, "Bleecker Station" has melted my curiosity enough to go check out his debut cd "Fire in the arms of the Sun"." I am sure I will enjoy this album and hope to hear his other works soon too.
Ba Da Bing! Greg Weeks : Awake like Sun (US,2002)***??
I heard a cdr-copy of Awake like Sun' quickly in a shop, and at first hearing the dominating combination of mellotron were a bit strange to me, so that I never ordered it. Now all these early albums are sold out.
