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I thought Tony Duhig's guitar playing was a melodic, kind of laidback form of improvisation.
Barazinbar!
TODDLER wrote:
On electric guitar he often played with a clean Jazz tone. He experimented with open tunings on acoustic which created an Asian music sound and luring vibe. He added a mystical style and raised the spirits in the music of Jade Warrior..Lol! Actually any musician that study's Asian music and even it's culture, will naturally create such a sound. Clearly it's the originality that Tony Duhig brought to the sound of their music. Horizens is a work of art! The entire album and especially "Long Wait At Mount Li." is a true work of art...and don't forget his very innovative yet bizzare guitar work on Steve Jolliffe's Journey's Out Of The Body.
Yeah, I usually play straight up electric, but I've been seeing what I can do with fingerpicking of late. I decided to try leaving some open strings in usual places, and found it remarkable how reminiscent it was of Tony Duhig. I didn't use his alternate tuning, though. I always thought Obedience, BTW, was a masterful use of layered droning distortion - who needs a mellotron when you can do that?
That's an interesting observation....your statement about the mellotron. I never thought of it in that way.
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Posted: September 30 2014 at 01:08
TODDLER wrote:
I thought Tony Duhig's guitar playing was a melodic, kind of laidback form of improvisation.
Barazinbar!
TODDLER wrote:
On electric guitar he often played with a clean Jazz tone. He experimented with open tunings on acoustic which created an Asian music sound and luring vibe. He added a mystical style and raised the spirits in the music of Jade Warrior..Lol! Actually any musician that study's Asian music and even it's culture, will naturally create such a sound. Clearly it's the originality that Tony Duhig brought to the sound of their music. Horizens is a work of art! The entire album and especially "Long Wait At Mount Li." is a true work of art...and don't forget his very innovative yet bizzare guitar work on Steve Jolliffe's Journey's Out Of The Body.
Yeah, I usually play straight up electric, but I've been seeing what I can do with fingerpicking of late. I decided to try leaving some open strings in usual places, and found it remarkable how reminiscent it was of Tony Duhig. I didn't use his alternate tuning, though. I always thought Obedience, BTW, was a masterful use of layered droning distortion - who needs a mellotron when you can do that?
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Posted: September 29 2014 at 21:33
My favorite is still Waves. One of the best titles by any artist to immerse oneself in, so it’s appropriately titled.
Those who prefer their Island period might also like Blue Star by Gurumander & Friends. It’s an album that I’ve praised on this forum before, and no, I had nothing to do with its making, I just like it. It’s readily available on Amazon.
Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.
On Steve Jolliffe's Journey's Out Of The Body, the flute, (played by Steve Jolliffe), is combined with sections of Tony Duhig's guitar playing ...and together...they both somehow create the beautiful sound crafted by Jon Field and Tony Duhig. There is spoken word in between some tracks, where Jolliffe is reading from a diary. The diary he wrote while traveling with Tangerine Dream and having out of the body experiences.
I thought Tony Duhig's guitar playing was a melodic, kind of laidback form of improvisation. On electric guitar he often played with a clean Jazz tone. He experimented with open tunings on acoustic which created an Asian music sound and luring vibe. He added a mystical style and raised the spirits in the music of Jade Warrior..Lol! Actually any musician that study's Asian music and even it's culture, will naturally create such a sound. Clearly it's the originality that Tony Duhig brought to the sound of their music. Horizens is a work of art! The entire album and especially "Long Wait At Mount Li." is a true work of art...and don't forget his very innovative yet bizzare guitar work on Steve Jolliffe's Journey's Out Of The Body.
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Posted: September 29 2014 at 10:00
TODDLER wrote:
HackettFan wrote:
dr Wu23 wrote:
I have 10 of their albums but I still like the first 3 the best and prolly Autumn's Dream the most. But I also like Floating World, Way of the Sun, and Now. Do you have July...the early psych thing two of the members were part of?
I knew of July from the band history on the website, but I didn't know there was an actual recording produced. I have to look into that!
TODDLER wrote:
My Jade Warrior collection...... Jade Warrior Released Last Autumn's Dream Eclipse Fifth Element Floating World Waves Kites Way Of The Sun Elements-The Island Anthology Reflections-(import cd from South Korea) Horizons At Peace Breathing The Storm Distant Echoes Dogstar Poets-Off Planet Now
Fabulous collection. I never heard of Dogstar Poets-Off Planet. Would you believe I paid for Breathing the Storm just before I went to bed one night several months ago, then forgot to download it! I have to correct that.
Off-Planet is like listening to the missing Jade Warrior album. The early style ..but more modern. Gongs, chanting, ocean waves, and birds are heard throughout the pieces just like on any other Jade Warrior album. It has all the characteristics of their approach and the distinctive atmospheric..cosmic sound.
That's all the recommendation I need. How would you rate Tony Duhig's guitar playing? He doesn't get mentioned on people's lists much.
I have 10 of their albums but I still like the first 3 the best and prolly Autumn's Dream the most.
But I also like Floating World, Way of the Sun, and Now.
Do you have July...the early psych thing two of the members were part of?
I knew of July from the band history on the website, but I didn't know there was an actual recording produced. I have to look into that!
TODDLER wrote:
My Jade Warrior collection......
Jade Warrior
Released
Last Autumn's Dream
Eclipse
Fifth Element
Floating World
Waves
Kites
Way Of The Sun
Elements-The Island Anthology
Reflections-(import cd from South Korea)
Horizons
At Peace
Breathing The Storm
Distant Echoes
Dogstar Poets-Off Planet
Now
Fabulous collection. I never heard of Dogstar Poets-Off Planet. Would you believe I paid for Breathing the Storm just before I went to bed one night several months ago, then forgot to download it! I have to correct that.
Off-Planet is like listening to the missing Jade Warrior album. The early style ..but more modern. Gongs, chanting, ocean waves, and birds are heard throughout the pieces just like on any other Jade Warrior album. It has all the characteristics of their approach and the distinctive atmospheric..cosmic sound.
There was a recording session which took place shortly after the release of Distant Echoes. The music was designed to be a theme revolving around the subject of a great native American chief. Anyway,...something along those lines..until band members stopped showing up for rehearsal. The tapes were maybe stored away..(I don't know?), but maybe some of the ideas for this lost material was re-arranged for NOW. Who knows? All I know is how curious I am about it! If this was another instrumental album that proceeded Distant Echoes...then we truly missed out on something special and worthwhile from Jade Warrior. Anyone have information about this?
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Posted: September 28 2014 at 19:16
dr wu23 wrote:
For all the Jade Warrior fans.....
Fascinating! Utterly cool! Thanks. It took a little while for the video to even come up on my phone, so I went to my laptop. This is a treasure. Kind of psychedelic in a Syd Barrett fashion. Kind of Beatles-like too. It's clear they were trying for a variety of timbres through electronic effects as permitted by the limited resources of the time. Lots of Tony Duhig's sensibility toward distortion. The guitar seems to have a volume swell a lot too. Something's frequently obscuring the attack on the guitar notes. Notably prior to John Field's flute playing.
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Posted: September 28 2014 at 17:31
kenethlevine wrote:
infocat wrote:
I have the "Island Anthology". Way of the Sun is my favorite, I think.
have that one too, very enjoyable
I don't have the anthology. I have each of the Island albums individually. I gravitated most to Floating World and then to Kites and Waves. It had been awhile since I listened to Way of the Sun, and couldn't remember it quite so vividly, so I gave it a very welcome listen again today. Very excellent. I'll recommend this to anyone. It's always amazing to me how Tony Duhig got these timbres out of distorted guitar that could sound more sublime and dreamy than gritty (aside from when he wanted it to be gritty, of course).
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Posted: September 28 2014 at 09:46
For awhile I've been enjoying Aquarius in Retrograde by Daniel Crommie with Glyn Havard & Friends. It has three Jade Warrior guys in it. Glyn Havard, David Duhig, and Allan Price. I just ordered the previous album, Between the Darkness and the Dawn. Hopefully it's just as good.
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Posted: September 27 2014 at 18:49
infocat wrote:
I have the "Island Anthology". Way of the Sun is my favorite, I think.
Way of the Sun is nice. Very beautiful. I like the Island albums. They take you to other realms so to speak. The character is very different from what came before. In case you haven't looked into the earlier albums, I really do recommend them as well. They're more classic grooving band efforts.
HolyMoly wrote:
Last Autumn's Dream is my favorite. I especially love the "Winter's Tale"/"Snake" combo that starts the album. The debut album was my intro to them - bought the LP without knowing anything about them, because it had a proggy look. Loved that album too, but my next, "Kites", was a bit over my head. "Waves" was next, and I loved the jazzy bits on that one, with Winwood guesting on organ. Long story short, I have all the 70s albums except for "Released", which I will get someday, though I have an mp3 copy I made from a friend's LP. Though I had all four albums separately, I still got "Island Anthology" years after it went out of print, when I found it used. It's a nice package and probably collectable.
Winters Tale/Snake. Jade Warrior were really masters of dynamic contrast very much like Genesis.
HolyMoly wrote:
Recent stuff, I have "Eclipse", actually a much older recording unreleased intil the 90s. Haven't heard anything else. I like the band when I'm in the right mood, but I'm not a completist.
Fifth Element is another posthumous release like Eclipse, but I think maybe I like Eclipse ever so slightly more. Fifth Element has Mountain of Fruit and Flowers, which is closely related to a similar named instrumental on Floating World. It's quite a revelation in how it bridges the gap between the old and new era.
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Posted: September 27 2014 at 18:09
dr Wu23 wrote:
I have 10 of their albums but I still like the first 3 the best and prolly Autumn's Dream the most. But I also like Floating World, Way of the Sun, and Now. Do you have July...the early psych thing two of the members were part of?
I knew of July from the band history on the website, but I didn't know there was an actual recording produced. I have to look into that!
TODDLER wrote:
My Jade Warrior collection...... Jade Warrior Released Last Autumn's Dream Eclipse Fifth Element Floating World Waves Kites Way Of The Sun Elements-The Island Anthology Reflections-(import cd from South Korea) Horizons At Peace Breathing The Storm Distant Echoes Dogstar Poets-Off Planet Now
Fabulous collection. I never heard of Dogstar Poets-Off Planet. Would you believe I paid for Breathing the Storm just before I went to bed one night several months ago, then forgot to download it! I have to correct that.
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