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It would be easy to suppose that more than one guitarist is at work on many of the tracks on Pierre Bensusan's appropriately named album Vividly. Those two or three string players would have to be unusually intuitive, however, reading each other's minds in real time. Bensusan is sometimes playing three separate parts in a couple of different time signatures. In fact, it's amazing he never gets his fingers tangled. The effect is a textured guitar sound, as Bensusan interweaves the different sections, quickening and slowing, playing complexly and then simply. By varying the dynamics and the time, he is consistently surprising, yet always satisfying. As if that weren't enough, he also sings on every other track, usually in French, though "The In-Between" is a love song rendered in lightly accented English. After working alone for most of the disc, he adds a band and other singers for the closer, "Les Places de Liberté," making for the liveliest moment on what has already been a vivid collection.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Traditional, Composer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Pierre Bensusan, Performer - Pierre Bensusan, Composer
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
Album review
It would be easy to suppose that more than one guitarist is at work on many of the tracks on Pierre Bensusan's appropriately named album Vividly. Those two or three string players would have to be unusually intuitive, however, reading each other's minds in real time. Bensusan is sometimes playing three separate parts in a couple of different time signatures. In fact, it's amazing he never gets his fingers tangled. The effect is a textured guitar sound, as Bensusan interweaves the different sections, quickening and slowing, playing complexly and then simply. By varying the dynamics and the time, he is consistently surprising, yet always satisfying. As if that weren't enough, he also sings on every other track, usually in French, though "The In-Between" is a love song rendered in lightly accented English. After working alone for most of the disc, he adds a band and other singers for the closer, "Les Places de Liberté," making for the liveliest moment on what has already been a vivid collection.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 01:02:37
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Pierre Bensusan
- Composer: Pierre Bensusan
- Label: Dadgad Music
- Genre: World
2010 Dadgad Music 2010 Dadgad Music
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