Description
Chasing Light is a studio album by the British singer and songwriter Gareth Davies-Jones, independently released in February 2011. The album was produced, recorded, and mixed by Graeme Duffin, Sandy Jones, and Gareth Davies-Jones at The Foundry Music Lab in Motherwell, Scotland.
Track eight on this album is called «Troubadour», a beautiful punchy ballad from the Northumberland-based songsmith which speaks of journeying and life on the road. In many ways it sums up the whole of ‘Chasing Light’ which truly does take the listener on a journey of musical styles and lyrical pictures and is permeated throughout by Davies-Jones’ soothing vocals and superb musicianship. The first two tracks, «The Fields» and «Hidden» are a couple of high quality stops along the route of mainstream acoustic songs that prepare us for a sharp turn westwards towards «Reilly», an updated Irish sea-shanty and «Sweet Portaferry», a lovely Celtic ode to Gareth’s childhood home in County Down. We then take an altogether political change of direction with the poignant «Berlin To Bethlehem» and «Headlines», the latter of which is reminiscent of the lyrically intelligent work of Del Amitri. The title track is a meditative acoustic guitar instrumental, where the player’s proficiency is demonstrated by the complete lack of ‘fret buzz’ and excellent use of string harmonics at the end. Warm, full and thought-provoking. [Michael Durrant, Cross Rhythms, September 2011]
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CD tracklist:
01. The Fields
02. Hidden
03. Reilly
04. Sweet Portaferry
05. Berlin To Bethlehem
06. Headlines
07. Chasing Light
08. Troubadour
09. Character
10. PQ17
11. Rover Of The Sea
12. Ingram
Note: Available at Bandcamp: https://garethdavies-jones.bandcamp.com/album/chasing-light
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