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Guitar Bazaar:
Reviews
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Guitar Player
Magazine
April 1997
Guitar Bazaar
Wielding a Taylor 812-C, he channels
more current than most of his electric
counterparts. Fresh, exotic, and totally
cool.
If you're getting
complacent about your acoustic
fingerpicking, you'd better hear Tim
Sparks' new CD. His specialty is playing
odd meters, such as the kopanitsa from
Macedonia and Bulgaria (2+2+3+2+2) and the
Middle Eastern jurjinah dance rhythm
(3+2+2+3). There's nothing forced or
studied about his playing or compositions:
his intense, on-the-edge attack speaks of
many nights wailing around campfires in
places most of us have never heard of.
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1993 National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion,
Tim Sparks, celebrates the release of his
second CD for Peter Finger's cutting-edge
guitar label, Acoustic Music Records.
Guitar Bazaar has been getting raves in
Europe, where it was released in the fall
of 1995.
Berlin Morning Post
"Sparks shows his tremendous
versatility moving between Jazz and the
classics"
Dirty Linen Magazine
"This is a major contribution to the
world of guitar transcriptions. You're
unlikely to hear more intricate and
wonderfully tricky guitar picking on any
other album this year. Sparks is an
extraordinary guitarist"
Consumable Online
"...a classy, expert and beautiful
album, just the thing to test the clarity
and range of your new amp."
This collection of pieces by acoustic
guitar maestro Tim Sparks has an Eastern
flavor, with Balkan harmonies and rhythms,
Transylvanian touches (a Sparksified
retelling of Bartok's Rumanian Dances),
Turkish dance rhythms, middle-eastern
scales and meters, Armenian motifs: all on
a guitar!
"Sleeping
Giant" beautifully blends flamenco with
somewhere further east, somewhere towards
Afghanistan: it's my favourite piece from
this album. A gentle giant, this one.
A
classy, expert and beautiful album, just
the thing to test the clarity and range of
your new amp. And it might just inspire
you dig out your old guitar and start to
play again.. but will you ever be this
good????
- Ali Sinclair
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