Jon Collin - Early Music LP
Jon Collin - Early Music LP
Staff Pick: Mitch
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Another whisper-quiet recording that sounds like an early approach to playing that Collin has opened up in more recent years. Collin has the ability to create an atmosphere of creaks, scrapes, and deadened notes that is then sliced open by a single note or a short run of phrases. Here he plays a fair bit of slide guitar that sounds like Ry Cooder with the fragility of Loren Connors’ work with Kath Bloom, or even the lyricism of the Love Chants lead lines. Among all this, passages are recorded to tape, played back, and played back over, creating an uneven plane of audial reference, with guitars slipping in and out of fidelities.
–Mitch
'Coming a couple of years after High Peak Selections, Early Music was the second 'studio' full-length album by Jon Collin. More spare and sparse than its predecessor, both in atmosphere and presentation (the track names are simply numbers), it's also perhaps more focused and consistent in terms of sound and mood (as well as instrumental set-up and recording locale). While High Peak Selections and later recordings feature environmental and external sounds bleeding in and out of recordings, the only sound other than an amplified acoustic guitar heard on Early Music is the whirr and squeak of the reel-to-reel tape machine that it was recorded on, the recording device becoming an additional instrumental presence.
The importance of the release in the wider context of Jon Collin's back catalogue is shown by the fact that the record's title would become the name of the record label that he would start not long after its release, and indeed that that this reissue is presented by.'
The importance of the release in the wider context of Jon Collin's back catalogue is shown by the fact that the record's title would become the name of the record label that he would start not long after its release, and indeed that that this reissue is presented by.'
