By: Henk te Veldhuis
larelynn Rose is a self-taught guitarist and forester from
Mendocino County, California in the USA. She has released
her second album now, which is called Elegant Tern. She
plays fingerstyle guitar with associations to John Renbourn,
and Alex de Grassi who helped her a lot. Her guitar playing
has a very intimate atmosphere which has a relaxing effect.
She plays 11 tracks in 8 varied open tunings. Very special is
that Clarelynn manages to make her compositions so good
you forget she does play in so many open tunings, yet only
guitarists like Pierre Bensusan managed to be so complete
that the music and compositions does not matter that much,
as she is able to concentrate fully on her guitar playing. Her
techniques, like balance, punctuation and melody building
aresuperb. There is only one traditional arranged work on this
album "Monk's Gate /I saw Three Ships". Clarelynn knows to
create her unique own style in intimate settings which paint
beautiful landscapes in your mind. Most off her compositions
are concentrated on Folk music. My favorites are "Elegant
Tern", "Sound of Thunderclouds" and "Damnation Trail" as
they have a deep spiritual feeling with a melancholic character
in nice melody building and perfect balance in the melody
lines.The recording by "Laughing Coyote Studio" is excellent.
Clarelynn Rose has managed to make an exceptional album,
as "Elegant Tern" is as well an album for the pure fingerstyle
guitarist as people who like Folk music with a touch of New
Age Music. Clarelynn Rose is a very inspirable acoustic
guitarist.
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