City of Refuge

Artist: John Fahey
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 764483012720
EAN: 0764483012720
ASIN: B000001FK9

Release Date: 1997-02-11

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Tracks:

Fanfare
The Mill Pond
Chelsey Silver, Please Come Home
City Of Refuge I
City Of Refuge III
Hope Slumbers Eternal
On The Death And Disembowelment Of The New Age

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Customer Reviews:

Most innovative album in years.......1999-05-19

If you don't think that there are great songs on this with some great guitar playing then you obviously didn't listen to cuts like Chelsey Silver, Please Come Home or City Of Refuge III. But what sets this album apart is his courage to experiment which most people of his age are usually afraid to do. They usually want to give something to people that they can immediately understand, that they don't have to think too much about. Well, to Fahey, it's all about art, just like it's always been to him. Yeah, there are moments of noisy self-indulgence, but if you really listen, it's all just emotion. That's really all he's ever done, just played his emotions.

backporch Sonic Youth.......1998-11-06

For certain it has little to do soundwise w/ Fahey's more traditional guitar stylings, but plenty of assocation and reference to his earlier experiments in musique concrete. Sounds like some weird cross between Derek Bailey and John Cage maybe. I especially enjoy the opening overture, which sounds like Fahey jamming with an old noisy refrigerator motor. This CD is grating at times but I've got a lot of respect for Fahey for announcing his 'comeback' with such a thoroughly uncompromising disc of new material.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY.......1998-10-24

Whatever this is it is absolutely unlistenable. I can't give it away. I have some of Fahey's earlier work which is fabulous. I lost touch with his work and actually kind of forgot about him. Then I heard the stories of his illness and his mental breakdown. Well evidentally it's all true if this is any indication. The liner notes are but a small peek into what it must be like to be Fahey as he rants on about being missunderstood. Is it any wonder? Instead of buying this may I suggest you slam your head in a car door about seven times. You'll enjoy it much more than you would listening to seven seconds of this.

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