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For his second studio album, singer/songwriter John Shannon offers Songs Of The Desert River, an 11-track collection that envelops the listener with its own sense of time and space. On songs such as "Darkness," "Hurricane" and "New Winter," Shannon and his band Wings Of Sound float weightlessly along an ethereal through-line of delicately finger-picked acoustic guitar, lyrics of spirit and mysticism, ghost-like vocal harmonies, flourishes of flugelhorn, bowed-bass and other subtle atmospheric sounds.
He's drawn comparisons to the likes of Jose Gonzalez, Iron & Wine and John Martyn, but Shannon views himself as more a "song-seeker" than a part of contemporary tradition. Searching for his words and music in nature, he's embarked on vision quests in the wilderness to find songs "in the winds and sunrise." Shannon's "found" songs are the focal point of all-encompassing journey into a multi-dimensional psyche and wide-open heart. Songs Of The Desert River offers a path of aural transport that sustains long after the music has faded and ultimately beckons the listener back time and time again.
John Shannon makes beautiful, minimalistic compositions based around the guitar and upright bass?to which he matches his delicate, wafty voice.
It?s the musical equivalent of staring out at a very
still, very lovely lake. - Time Out New York
Somewhere between John Martyn and Nick Drake...
hypnotic and timeless... - Le Monde
...John Shannon offers a sumptuous disk of
uncluttered folk... - Les Inrockuptibles
Songs as pure and unfiltered were only known long ago
from American folk-heroes like Pete Seeger. - WOM
Dreamy peaceful reveries. - Earvolution.com
'Songs of the Desert River' is deceptively simple in its articulation of the profound, yet remains utterly mysterious; its abundant beauty resonates long after its final song echoes,
then vanishes into the realm of silence. - All Music
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Darkness |
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Wave To The River |
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Desert River |
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Hurricane |
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Forever Is When |
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Spirits On The Same Train |
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Dawn Breaks |
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Days Gone By |
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Tell The Morning |
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New Winter |
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Into The Unknown |
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