(AR021) Chris Weisman - Transparency 2CD

Chris Weisman - Transparency (AR021)

2CD edition of 300 copies - released 02/01/2011

CD1

01. round

02. music in the line

03. the winning blues

04. bicycle

05. symbols and signs

06. number 2 man

07. almost a mood

08. the radial spoke

09. money madness

10. transparency

11. feel the houses

12. anybody's time

13. fire and flame

14. rosenwinkel vertigo

15. sound of the summer

CD2

01. the beatles

02. be easy on yourself

03. in the walls

04. the pilot's skull

05. contact high

06. no business shoes

07. ordinary consciousness

08. 1999

09. the sun comes back

10. rain doctor

11. mystery

12. the sweetest flags

13. arabesque

14. crosst bridge

15. angleterre anywhere

"in a hardly circulated and seldom referenced 1967 interview with paul mccartney and john lennon from during the making of what would become sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band, they use the words "jokes" and "folk" in describing their new music. with this crazy perceptual distance between the artist and the public in mind - between what they think they're doing and how we end up boxing it - consider chris weisman's song-based albums not as "pop" but as an almost side effect of jazz, an upper extension (if you will) over a base of changes playing, free improvisation, and guitar teaching. jazz is more self consciously a field in pursuit of novel pitch relations than the retro rainbow of what calls itself pop now (though his vermont boot grinds deceptively deeply into many of its potholes), and the project of making wrong notes work - at the expense of popularity for over 20 years - is transparently weisman's nerdy ambition (this is the author of a book called "nonmusical patterns and their mystical meanings"). "transparency" - chris' latest (always imagined to be his last) - : joke folk through and through, his "the beatles", 30 songs and all. " -donald christopher 2011

chris weisman's new double album folk/pop masterpiece. his most personal & accessible album yet. for fans of elliott smith, the beatles, and weird music.