Voice of the Seven Woods
Voice of the Seven Woods is UK guitarist/sitarist/anything-with-a-string-ist Richard Tomlinson. This is his debut LP (on Twisted Nerve/B-Music). He’s going for a psych-folk thing here, but takes that genre and reads it very broadly. There is a lot of middle eastern & Indian influence and his guitarwork reminds me a lot of Pentangle, particularly the John Redbourn side. He also throws in some storming electric guitar just so you don’t get to comfortable. It’s largely instrumental, but he does sing on a few tracks. And he has a delightful voice. Despite touching on a lot of styles, Tomlinson doesn’t genre hop. They are all pulled together into a cohesive album. And an album that sounds entirely modern even as it reaches into the past. This is one of my favorite albums to come out so far in 2007.
He’s also going out on tour with Prefuse 73 and will be hitting my turf (Detroit’s Magic Stick) on November 30th. I’m already there.
Voice of the Seven Woods - Sand and Flames
Voice of the Seven Woods - The Fire in My Head
