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Music Artist: Dan Balmer
Label: Chase Music
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 028568802928
EAN: 0028568802928
ASIN: B0000012HD


Release Date: 1991-07-01

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Tracks:

  1. Somebody's Girl
  2. The Times We Spent Together
  3. Noah And Tim
  4. A Winter Beginning
  5. Creature Of Habit
  6. Looking Back
  7. Prom Night
  8. The Untitled Fusion Tune
  9. Body And Soul

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Quiet Man Makes Noise.......2000-11-29

I've been a big fan of Portland's Dan Balmer for years. I first saw him, as part of The Tom Grant Band, back in 1982. He stood quietly on the stage and played like mad. No change here! Dan puts together a combination of slow, mid and fast tempo tunes that touch a variety of nerves. He also weaves his former bandmates, Grant, drummer Carlton Jackson, bassist Jeff Leonard and original Grant Band bassist Dave Captein into the mix. The feeling is a familiar, yet distinctly different sound. Dan puts his acoustic hat on for cut 1 and does some pretty work. On cut 4 he adds an oboe to the slow, moody, full sounding tune of "A Winter Beginning". Tunes 2 and 7 have that slow dance feel, but drive uniquely. Two sounds like it should be used after a wedding and "Prom Night" has a 50's gymasium quality...rough, yet mesmerizing. "Noah and Tim" is a bouncy lounge act tune that has Dan playing a series of fast clean runs and then drops a Grant piano solo right in the middle. Cut 5 is a funky, smooth jazz tune with Captein hold down the bottom. Dan sears the final sixty seconds with a bunch of tasty licks to take the song out. "Looking Back" is a long, slow tune, probably my least favorite on the disk, until they funk-it-up between the three and four minute marks...it suddenly becomes a wonderful slow player. The last two cuts are the farthest apart. The 4:42 of "Untitled Fusion Tune" fly by as Dan and gang do a mid-paced burn of appegiated runs and Leonard comes in with a nice bass solo. Dan cuts out all the garbage and finishes the set with the superb solo effort of "Body and Soul". Smooth fingering and graceful harmonics give a soft, sweet sound. Overall, an excellent offering from a fantastic guitarist. I like the production level...not over the top. A good, clean album for someone who likes a mixture of styles and sounds.

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