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From La Tribune, Sherbrooke, March 9, 2019
Fans of guitar and inspiring beautiful music will certainly be delighted with this sixth album by Calum Graham, who has brought us one of his most accomplished albums to date. Impressive and sensitive.
Calum Graham is one of these musicians with a rare talent: at 27 years old, with a career that takes him all over the world, his impressive virtuosity and his unique fingerstyle, the Alberta guitarist now offers us his sixth album, precise, sensitive and exciting. Thread of Creation is an open window on the extraordinary abilities of this exceptional artist.
The one that Acoustic Guitar Magazine named one of the 30 best guitarists under 30 years of age in the world will amaze us, almost splitting up on the instrument. If the composer Graham does not sin for excess of audacity, the virtuoso guitarist is in perfect control of his means, extirpating rhythms, bass and transcendental melodies from his guitar alone. Between frenetic excitement, sensitivity, tenderness and generosity, Calum Graham knows how to convince people of the accuracy of his approach.
Recorded at L'Assomption, produced with a beautiful sobriety by Quebec guitarist Antoine Dufour, Thread of Creation highlights, through a subtle interplay of reverberations, Calum Graham's almost magical fingering, and his ability to create so many musical layers of beauty and humanity. One could have the impression of hearing more than one instrument on these compositions, so much the fingerstyle gives the musician great freedom.
"When you listen to this style for the first time, you get the impression that three guitars are playing at the same time. I play the bass score with my left hand and the melody with my right. It covers bass, melody and rhythm. It's like a small orchestra with only one guitar. It creates a lot of possibilities for a solo guitarist.
From La Tribune, Sherbrooke, March 9, 2019
Fans of guitar and inspiring beautiful music will certainly be delighted with this sixth album by Calum Graham, who has brought us one of his most accomplished albums to date. Impressive and sensitive.
Calum Graham is one of these musicians with a rare talent: at 27 years old, with a career that takes him all over the world, his impressive virtuosity and his unique fingerstyle, the Alberta guitarist now offers us his sixth album, precise, sensitive and exciting. Thread of Creation is an open window on the extraordinary abilities of this exceptional artist.
The one that Acoustic Guitar Magazine named one of the 30 best guitarists under 30 years of age in the world will amaze us, almost splitting up on the instrument. If the composer Graham does not sin for excess of audacity, the virtuoso guitarist is in perfect control of his means, extirpating rhythms, bass and transcendental melodies from his guitar alone. Between frenetic excitement, sensitivity, tenderness and generosity, Calum Graham knows how to convince people of the accuracy of his approach.
Recorded at L'Assomption, produced with a beautiful sobriety by Quebec guitarist Antoine Dufour, Thread of Creation highlights, through a subtle interplay of reverberations, Calum Graham's almost magical fingering, and his ability to create so many musical layers of beauty and humanity. One could have the impression of hearing more than one instrument on these compositions, so much the fingerstyle gives the musician great freedom.
"When you listen to this style for the first time, you get the impression that three guitars are playing at the same time. I play the bass score with my left hand and the melody with my right. It covers bass, melody and rhythm. It's like a small orchestra with only one guitar. It creates a lot of possibilities for a solo guitarist.
From La Tribune, Sherbrooke, March 9, 2019
Fans of guitar and inspiring beautiful music will certainly be delighted with this sixth album by Calum Graham, who has brought us one of his most accomplished albums to date. Impressive and sensitive.
Calum Graham is one of these musicians with a rare talent: at 27 years old, with a career that takes him all over the world, his impressive virtuosity and his unique fingerstyle, the Alberta guitarist now offers us his sixth album, precise, sensitive and exciting. Thread of Creation is an open window on the extraordinary abilities of this exceptional artist.
The one that Acoustic Guitar Magazine named one of the 30 best guitarists under 30 years of age in the world will amaze us, almost splitting up on the instrument. If the composer Graham does not sin for excess of audacity, the virtuoso guitarist is in perfect control of his means, extirpating rhythms, bass and transcendental melodies from his guitar alone. Between frenetic excitement, sensitivity, tenderness and generosity, Calum Graham knows how to convince people of the accuracy of his approach.
Recorded at L'Assomption, produced with a beautiful sobriety by Quebec guitarist Antoine Dufour, Thread of Creation highlights, through a subtle interplay of reverberations, Calum Graham's almost magical fingering, and his ability to create so many musical layers of beauty and humanity. One could have the impression of hearing more than one instrument on these compositions, so much the fingerstyle gives the musician great freedom.
"When you listen to this style for the first time, you get the impression that three guitars are playing at the same time. I play the bass score with my left hand and the melody with my right. It covers bass, melody and rhythm. It's like a small orchestra with only one guitar. It creates a lot of possibilities for a solo guitarist.
12 song solo album featuring Instrumentals, Vocals, and new songs written on the Harp Guitar with guest performances by Michael Manring and Antoine Dufour.
Release date : March 2016
Produced, Recorded, Engineered, and Mixed by Antoine Dufour (Studio AD in L’Assomption, Quebec, Canada) and Terence Lam (TL Studios in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada)
Mastered by Antoine Dufour
'Tabula Rasa' kept me listening from start to finish. Calum Graham is writing some of the best music I have heard in recent years. - Rob Poland (Candyrat Records)
To Buy/Download this Album please visit : http://www.candyrat.com/artists/calumgraham/1234/
Calum offers six original songs on the new duet album, fully formed, in full command of his craft, his identity and his music. Brimming with fascinating arpeggios, alternate tunings and ringing harmonics, “12:34” also features reworkings of three of Don's classic tunes as well as a cover of Outkast’s smash hit “Hey Ya”. There’s no question that every listen to "12:34" will reveal something captivating and new, but both Don and Calum prefer that listeners come to their own conclusions about the music.
Don Ross is one of the world’s finest and most consistently intriguing artists in the world of solo fingerstyle guitar. He has proven to be an innovative composer whose mastery of acoustic fingerpicking styles has grown to not only include a variety of advanced techniques, unique ideas and worldly influences but also a strong interest in working with other great musicians.
Revisiting collaborative guitar work, Don teams up with gifted and significant new talent Calum Graham. Calum is one of those players whose music that you can't help but like. “His tunes are energetic, infectious, and show a compositional maturity well beyond what I would normally expect to hear from such a young player. What can I say, I'm a fan!" says Don. It's all an ironically "full circle" story, as Don was the reason Calum started playing fingerstyle guitar in the first place. Early on, the younger version of Calum became very serious about the instrument, fascinated by technique and musicality that go far beyond the usual strumming of a few chords.
To Buy/Download this Album please visit : http://www.candyrat.com/artists/calumgraham/phoenixrising/
"Phoenix Rising" features eight original solo fingerstyle compositions from young and rising star, Calum Graham.
Since winning the Canadian Fingerstyle Guitar Championship in 2010, Graham has released an indie debut record on his own imprint and a duet CD with Don Ross entitled "12:34", which has received positive reviews worldwide. The compositions on "Phoenix Rising" are all top notch and show a maturity that one does not simply arrive at without years of hard work, trail and error, and finally success which equals great music. Based on the fact that Graham is only in his early twenties, his listeners should be rewarded with much great music to come.
All songs written & performed by Calum Graham. Recorded at Candyrat Studios in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Mixed & Mastered by Antoine Dufour. Produced by Calum Graham, Antoine Dufour & Rob Poland
"Sunny Side Up" is the first release from Calum Graham. It features 10 Tracks in total. With 5 original tunes, 3 Cover songs, 1 transcription, and 1 Killer Arrangement!! Recorded at Encore Recording Studio in Calgary, Alberta.