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Jack Cheshire : Little Moon / Green is the Colour (UK,2006)****
Sometimes I do not find it easy to describe why an artist is good and how it sounds like. I only know I can put the songs on repeat and keep on enjoying them. I should have learned acoustic guitar to be able to describe Jack's guitar playing, or should have a better memory to give a correct reference that gives the right idea, and not just a vague idea. For me, "Little Moon" is like rhythmical poetry, with the guitar pickings, and with the song, a first favourite of mine, like a lullaby or musical box with rich sounds and expressed by a singer with a guitar who succeed to bring forward various harmonies from his guitar, that sound like expressing the chords of the body of the instrument. The guitar is like the full moon, spreading its chords in the air. Slightly romantic and idealized in circumstances I could fall asleep on this musical pillow, with wishful prosperous thoughts. Brilliant. I could only express it with different poetry, which I will not. "Green is the colour" with harmonious picking and rhythmic harmonies like acoustic rock and an orchestra in the guitar has equally rich qualities, with a slightly more rocking association (from rocking asleep to rocking awake)... Very good. (A new talent on the horizon).
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Jack Cheshire : Love The Eyes / Carousel / Tombs (UK,2006)****
These 3 tracks are other, more calm alternative folk-pop musings, with on “Love the Eyes” the guitar picking this is a bit more linear with the song, in a slowly brushing melodious rhythm. “Carousel” has some band arrangements to it, starting in the second verse (with cello ?, double bass and drumming). This carousel sounds like a metaphor for a slowly moving towards someone, in a romantic way, adapting the rhythms to the combined energy of two persons, until he’s able to bring the other into the circle dance of musings. “Tombs” has a different, more concluding rhythm on the guitar, making sounds as if using a bell sound to what sounds like the clicking of a clock, like an energy of time passing by, towards a closing end. This 3-track EP has a sense of poetry, in a very compact, striving towards-the-essence-way, and seems to be inspired at least with what reflects in the guitar. Talented !