Released: 1997
Tracks: Native of the Rain; Evening Tower; Per Moana; Flock; Dancing Inside; Star of the Dust; Pages; Prelude; Awakening (for Aileen); Prelude
Best track: Per Moana, maybe Native of the Rain
Track to skip: none
This is a gorgeous album. Solo 12-string acoustic guitar played by an exceptional musician. Do you need to know anything else? Awright, fine. Tony Geballe is officially a student of Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft and was in the League of Crafty Guitarists for a few years before ‘going solo’. Geballe’s not as well known as fellow Crafties Trey Gunn or the California Guitar Trio, but like those two he makes excellent music. Compared to the CGT, Tony’s playing sounds a lot less like Fripp. The CGT have been getting away from that for a while now, and here on Tony’s first album you can hear a slight Guitar Craft influence, but mostly it’s his own voice. This is a really short album, only 38 minutes, but the time works in its favor.
Most of this music is very mellow, calm stuff. The time does go by really quickly and it’s really relaxing music. Per Moana is probably my favorite on here; it’s just beautiful. Native of the Rain is probably the showcase track on here and it’s really impressive. The song Pages has some excellent changes it. Yeah, there are great things about all these tracks and as a whole it’s a great album. I frequently just put it on repeat and let it play for a few hours. Very enjoyable and excellent stuff.
Rating: 93
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