gorgeous
5
By Elm123456789
How can you review something that is so beautiful and right? I feel silly trying to put into words something done by such a giant talent.
How can this be only $14 when you can spend that on a fancy lunch every day of the week? Wacky world we live in.
Great instrumental album
5
By thaboy
This is one of the best album's of 2009. The musicianship is exquisite, the songs simple yet imaginative.
the live experience is amazing...
5
By nouwenthen
i just returned from seeing 'disfarmer' live and it was spellbinding...absolutely amazing. unclassifiable, certainly. moving, definitely. graceful and transcendent...absolutely. i continue to be amazed at frisell's unique, humble and powerful artistry...one of a kind.
Brilliant!
5
By LP26
Being both a photographer deeply familiar with Disfarmer's work and a guitarist, again, deeply familiar with Frisell's work, this recording from the first listen struck me as brilliant.
Disfarmer worked in an archaic way (though not completely archaic for his time) using a large format view camera to produce his images. When a photographer is under the dark cloth viewing the ground glass and composing, the world you see is both upside down and reversed (left is right and right is left). Over time this view of the world becomes normalized, no different really from seeing the world in a more conventional way.
Frisell's music, through his use of loops and delays, bends time - the photographer's most essential aesthetic commodity. As each photograph is a fractional cross section of time, an intersection between photographer and subject, an intersection of heart and eye, so too is Frisell's compositional sense.
This is brilliant work by one of our greatest living jazz guitarists and composers.
Excellent Addition to Frisell's Catalog: But Shame On iTunes
5
By bmaiani
Wonderful recording. However it's available on the Nonesuch website for $4 less ($10) AND it's in CD quality there (320 instead of Apple's 256: EVERYTHING on iTunes should be 320 I say, and there should be cover art as well at the prices they charge). Nonsense I say. Wise Up iTunes.
Disfarmer in particular, but all of Frisell's repertoire in general...
5
By scralty
Bill Frisell is awesome, and so damn understated! He's got music box innards he winds up and places on the strings of his tele above the pickups.... He's run it all, at times, though a zvex ringtone pedal, and I'll be darned if that thing can make any sounds that are not dissonant and awkward sounding, but he pulls it off. Someone in some forum said his sound is 99% in his fingers, but he's an expert working with effects and uses them to go where no one has gone before! He messes with time, has been good at that since he had his stint with ECM in the 80's and with Zorn, he just assaulted the listener! The Disfarmer stuff just seeps out of the soul of Herber Springs Arkansas, and is representative and as evocative as a book full of really quirky, interesting, and profound photographs.
Indelible
4
By angelblue
As always, Bill's intricately laced rhythms are picturesque and always haunting... long after the last chord.
He is indeed an American Artist who paints with his instrument.
Beautiful Articulation
4
By Jbro 94
Bill does a great job of capturing the essence of the emotion he is trying to portray through these songs
