[Harp-L] Review : Sébastien Charlier's "Diatonic Revelation"

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I have just posted a review of Sébastien Charlier's new album "Diatonic 
Revelation" on my blog. Here are the first few paragraphs : 

"When Sébastien Charlier gave me his first pro album earlier this summer, I 
felt somewhat apprehensive. Mostly because I really like him as a person, 
but his music, despite (or perhaps because of) his dazzling technique, never 
moved me until now. The title of the album, Diatonic Revelation, did little 
to reassure me. I was, in short, expecting an inaccessible record of 
technically mind boggling but not very musical harmonica playing. 

I am glad to say that I was pleasantly surprised. It took me several listens 
to form an opinion about it, but dazzling yet pointless technique it ain?t. 
Past a short and oddly uninteresting first track, the record enters 
full-blown into jazz territory, in a way that, to my knowledge, no record 
featuring diatonic harmonica ever has. Despite its title, Diatonic 
Revelation is not harmonica record. It?s a jazz record with a drums, 
double-bass, piano and diatonic harmonica line-up." 


Ben FELTEN
http://harmonica.typepad.com