The music of Nicolas Meier’s guitar playing has never let
me down. My introduction to him was four years ago with the releases of his
collaboration with Pete Oxley on Chasing
Tales and Infinity. Now
we are here in the latter part of 2019. Nicolas is full swing with the release
of his new album called, Peaceful. He
has his own World Group that features bassist Kevin Glasgow, violinist Richard
Jones, and percussionist Demi Garcia.
Released on the MGP label and distributed by MoonJune
Records, Peaceful gives Meier an
opportunity to go beyond the genre of Flamenco music. He and the World Group
takes you to the heart of the sound throughout the different guitars that he
plays on the album.
And it isn’t just the journey that he takes you to, but
going through the outskirts into the European countryside across the sea with
some middle-eastern textures. The percussions that Demi does on here, gives
some aspects of the romantic side of the Tango while Richard’s violin gives
Nicolas a chance to pull the handles of going back to those wonderous
landscapes with some melodic textures that they would do together.
What I love about this album is that how the group have this
amazing chemistry together and they would bring these delicious ingredients
they brought from the grocery store and cook up a delicious meal together. Not
only that, but they would bring up these structures to add more of these
intensity levels to increase the challenge even more.
The music can make those challenging dances by tackling the
traditional styles between the hearts of both Mexico and Brazil with some
unexpected twists and turns. And with Peaceful,
it can really capture you to see and hear on what not just the world group
would do, but what would Nicolas Meier think of next.
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