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Sándor Szabó"Acoustic
Poetry", 2005 The music on this CD just grows on me. On
all but one selection, Hungarian guitarist Sandor Szabo plays a custom
Lakewood baritone guitar, using tunings ranging as low as contra bass
A. "Walk," "Equation of the Existence" and several
other tracks recall Pat Metheny's baritone guitar playing on "One
Quiet Night." "The Silence of Your Soul" begins with
a singer-songwriter sensibility, moves into a harmonically dark and rhythmically
jagged section, then returns to the peacefulness of the introduction.
Similarly, he juxtaposes contrasting moods in "Autumn in California."
Szabo uses two extended suites, "The Rainmaker's Suite" and
Hungarian Folk Ballads," to develop ideas and explore shifting textures
at greater length. For a pleasant tonal contrast he plays a 21-string
Chinese guzheng on "South Korean Landscape," which closes the
disc. Sandor Szabo has a long pedigree as a solo and ensemble guitarist
-- "Acoustic Poetry" should both satisfy his existing base of
listeners and earn him many new fans.
Patrick Ragains
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