anish guitar whiz Torben Enevoldsen (also in Section A) contributes all
insturmentation to his third solo album simply entitled "Flying Solo".
Stylistically this isn't a million miles away from the solo albums that were a dime
a dozen in the 1980's - by no means a bad thing. This means there is lots of guitar
and then more guitar - fortunately Torben has seen fit to break up the flying
fretwork with more restraint textures and makes good use of clean electric and
acoustic parts.. Flying Solo is home to some very good compositional work that
begins with opener 1:49am and First Attempt being high on quality. The album also
has some more leftfield music that's not what you would expect, Lobotmized that has
a fusion feel amongst the guitar lines.
Having said that the guitar tone does at times fall into the "thin and overly
saturated" category, this doesn't detract too much from my overall enjoyment (and
certainly doesn't hide Enevoldsens skills any), but had there been a slightly more
open guitar tone then some of the dynamics of the lead work may stand up a little
better.
As it stands Flying Solo proves why Enevoldsen is considered one of Europe's hottest
players on the metal scene and will please anyone interested in the guitar
instrumental genre.
Rating - 80%
Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
anish guitar whiz Torben Enevoldsen (also in Section A) contributes all
insturmentation to his third solo album simply entitled "Flying Solo".
Stylistically this isn't a million miles away from the solo albums that were a dime
a dozen in the 1980's - by no means a bad thing. This means there is lots of guitar
and then more guitar - fortunately Torben has seen fit to break up the flying
fretwork with more restraint textures and makes good use of clean electric and
acoustic parts.. Flying Solo is home to some very good compositional work that
begins with opener 1:49am and First Attempt being high on quality. The album also
has some more leftfield music that's not what you would expect, Lobotmized that has
a fusion feel amongst the guitar lines.
