By: Matt Cafissi
cottish and virtuous Dean McGinnes esordisce us with this interesting job equipped
from ten tracks absolutely Satriani style and not only. Good the production: Going
Nowhere opens the dances with riff a a lot heavy in order then to placarsi with the
beautiful one ballad that New Start in perfect Satch style follows from the title
it. To listen to also the following Mountains Of Echo, acoustic song characterized
from beautiful atmospheres new age. E' time also for road song the The Journey Man
Ryan Carroll, other Stach-Vai callback. That to say, of sure a job it does not
originate them but daltrocanto nobody by now tries truly interesting things, the
beautiful sounds and a discreet production make of this cd a good album that
distacca from others axe-man underground and from the usual home-made productions
that lately they make it from landlady. To mensionare also the marked the rhythm The
End Is Near and the beautiful ballad and conclusive Title Track part 2. Bravo Dean,
we wait for your next job, even more mature... to listen!
The Scottish six-string bender goes all philosophical in the big instrumental picture.
With such a heavy start one would be forgiven for thinking that "Going Nowhere" is
too true rather than ironic a title. But there's a tangible physicality in the
guitarist's delivery, especially when the riffage layering breaks into a gentle
picking and then, the Chicago-influenced blues that could have smelled of many long
years on stage if Dean McGinnes wasn't so young. Yet he is and so can get away with
the dissonance mistake which mars the serenity of "New Start" as usually McGinnes'
technique seems precise and his thoughts run deep, He might be all over the place
stylistically, with a good dose of swagger and shredding, and less convincing with
the "Get Up And Go" rock 'n' roll beat, but emotive folk-meets-classical airiness of
pieces like "2ism" and "Mountains Of Echo" is gripping. The more the album spins the
stronger the grip, yet for nowhere not to be an option there comes time to go down
to the crossroads and decide which way to go further on up the road. A promising
talent.
***1/2
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