The Great Southwest
Nicholas Gunn

Štai, ką rašo mielas kolega Seržas Kazlovskis, iš kaimyninės Baltarusijos, įkvėptas šio diskelio muzikos:

When I was wandering a lot

about the terrestrial verges

My favourite land,

you were always on my mind…

      It is rather complicated to review the music you admire. I doubt whether I could appreciate the Nicholas Gunn's new album without prejudice as far as this musician is one of a number of compositors I like most of all. I just try to tell what features of his creative work are much in common with me. So, let's start.   

Inconceivable width, boundless flight of fancy inhere in Nicholas Gunn's music therefore it is practically impossible to describe it. More over the male power is present in it, this music is very lively and expressive. You cannot stay indifferent to Its beauty and genuineness. And not even that all is significant. When you just turn " The Great Southwest" album on you start living in the cloud-land, you speed away into distant, beautiful provinces, to the southwest of America where among immense wilderness and vast canyons this magical splendid music was born.  

  " The Great Southwest" album includes eleven Nicholas Gunn's compositions from his previous albums as well as two new ones. It being very difficult to recognize which ones of the melodies had been recorded earlier and which ones are new as far as all the compositions which were created previously have been mixed and re-recorded in a new fashion. The music of " The Great Southwest" sounds freshly and all the album is listened to in one go. And as ever Nicholas Gunns' music is extremely emotional.   

The sound-design of " The Great Southwest" is practically perfect. The sounding of the album is very " rich" . It is the greatest pleasure to listen to these passionate percussion beating out rhythm, a delicate flute, a wrapping sound of keyboards, a guitar with soft nylon strings, ideally chosen natural sounds. The European school and Amerind tunes, customary instruments and the music which is quite like nothing on earth. All that is Nicholas Gunn and his unique creativity.

    This music is so beyond expression beautiful as the sunrise can be when it illuminates a boundless plain and nigrescent mass of distant mountains on it with its soft rays. All immensity of a human heart, the very depths of this life inhere in Nicholas Gunn's music.    

Listen to " The Great Southwest" and form your own opinion on this project. Will it coincide with mine?    

 When the words are over the music only remains…

To the place where a new day rises

This music hurries up to meet,

Thereto where a new day shall come,

One fine day…

Serge Kozlovsky