Hotel Vast Horizon
Chris Whitley
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New Lost World | Chris Whitley | 4:24 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Breaking Your Fall | Chris Whitley | 3:23 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Frontier | Chris Whitley | 4:43 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Hotel Vast Horizon | Chris Whitley | 3:54 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Blues for André | Chris Whitley | 2:52 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Assassin Song | Chris Whitley | 3:56 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Wide Open Return | Chris Whitley | 3:07 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Silhouette | Chris Whitley | 4:26 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Insurrection At Newtown | Chris Whitley | 3:33 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Free Interval | Chris Whitley | 2:40 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Songs |
Album Review
Like Bob Dylan, Chris Whitley's music is deeply informed by the blues. But, also like Dylan, it is defined by a weird rhythmic amorphousness. What at first seems like indistinct strumming is soon brought into shape by angular melodies delivered in Whitley's unmistakable voice — deep and seemingly sedated. Chord changes are transparent, falling in odd places and practically unrelated to his strumming. None of this is a bad thing. Whitley's music is powerfully original. On 2001's Rocket House, he employed a virtual orchestra of electronic sounds, which provided a fitting frame for his otherworldly mumble-howl. With Hotel Vast Horizon, Whitley returns to more bare settings. The music is created by Whitley (playing guitar and banjo) with bassist Heiko Schramm and drummer Matthias Macht. And though the instrumentation is traditional, he manages to retain a fundamental strangeness throughout, almost defined by the absence of further arrangement. The results are not easy listening, but they are deeply compelling.
Biography
Born: 31 August 1960 in Houston, TX
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs By Chris Whitley
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Hellbound On My Trail | Dislocation Blues | 5:50 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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I Forget You Every Day | Living With The Law | 4:33 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Dislocation Blues | Dislocation Blues | 5:27 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Indian Summer | Dirt Floor | 3:39 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Dislocation Blues | Dislocation Blues | 5:27 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Ballpeen Hammer | Dirt Floor | 2:38 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Stagger Lee | Dislocation Blues | 7:26 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Big Sky Country | Living With The Law | 4:45 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Velocity Girl | Dislocation Blues | 4:52 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Twelve Thousand Miles | Dislocation Blues | 4:36 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
- $16.90
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Country, Rock, Blues-Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Blues, Classical, Avant-Garde, Roots Rock, Americana
- Released: 01 April 2003
- ℗ 2003 Messenger Records Inc
