Camarillo, CA – Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity will be
releasing guitar innovator Michael Hedges critically acclaimed album
Aerial Boundaries on limited edition 180gm vinyl! Aerial Boundaries is
unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking albums in acoustic
guitar history. This is the record that presented Michael Hedges to
the world as the ultimate acoustic guitar visionary, stretching the
limits of the instrument to accommodate his uncanny musical ideas.
There are moments on the record where it seems impossible that so much
music is coming from one man and his guitar. Rich in classical harmony
and master of fast finger techniques, Hedges' tracks feature layer
upon layer of musical complexity and every performance expands the
dynamic range of the instrument.
The songs on Aerial Boundaries are all beautiful and haunting and it
is this emphasis on composition over technique that makes this such an
important recording. Stirring, complex compositions like “Rickover's
Dream,” “Spare Change,” and an ingenious instrumental take of
Neil Young's “After the Gold Rush” are on full display. He could
be seductively quiet and suddenly explosive...slow or fast, timid or
thunderous.
The liner notes on the 180g vinyl gatefold jacket assures the listener
that the guitar is the origin for every sound heard...attacking his
instrument, snapping strings, banging on the fingerboard with his
right hand...Hedges has electronically manipulated some of the guitar
sounds to an almost unrecognizable point, yet he still managed to
create music of untarnished beauty.
“There was simply no one like him,” Bonnie Raitt said of Michael
Hedges following his untimely death in 1997, “a very gifted
performer, arranger and composer whose music sounded like nothing that
had come before it." Boundaries remains the late composer-guitarist's
seminal work, and its innovations in technique, tuning, tone, and
intensity remain key texts in modern acoustic circles.
Tracks:
1. Aerial Boundaries
2. Bensusan
3. Rickover's Dream
4. The Ragamuffin
5. After the Gold Rush
6. Hot Type
7. Spare Change
8. Threesome
9. The Magic Farmer
Produced by Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, Steven Miller
Engineered by Steven Miller, Oliver Di Cicco, Bill Mueller, Michael
Hedges
Mastered for this release by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
For more information: www.audiofidelity.net
Press inquiries: Glass Onyon PR, PH: 828-350-8158,
glassonyonpr@gmail.com
