Impossible Worlds

Description

6-panel gatefold sleeve CD, with 8 page booklet. False Walls releases a solo album from Glasgow-born and London-based guitarist Kevin Daniel Cahill. Consisting of two long tracks, the album traces a steady progression as it moves through different environments - initially ambient and isolationist in tone, the work ultimately reaches a form of transcendence. Rooted in Kevin's guitar-playing, though not immediately identifiable as such due to the deployment of tape loops and effects, the album foregrounds feeling and atmosphere, and its duration and gradual development benefits close listening. Kevin Daniel Cahill is a classical guitarist from Scotland and graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Folkwang Universitat Der Kunst in Essen, Germany. During his studies, Cahill held a deep connection to romantic and impressionistic works of composers such as Federico Mompou, Toru Takemitsu, Frederic Chopin and Alexandre Tansman. Cahill uses his training in the classical arena to merge and fuse contemporary and impressionistic musical languages together through adopted classical techniques and approaches. His music has been described as "Classical guitar meet electric guitar ambiance and multi-instrument art-rock, an audacious synthesis of both worlds" in This is Classical Guitar. "The long [33 minute] first piece is astonishing, a mostly timeless drift with an almost non-existent pulse underpinning it, an ebb and flow of echo and sustain. Trails of notes spiral and fade across an emptiness that is full of overtones and expiring sound...simply stunning." - International Times. "Timeless tonal landscapes..the two long pieces - 'Caoineadh' and 'Impossible Worlds' - are equally beautiful, though the title track deserves singling out for Cahill's ability to chart a drawn-out path that's both melancholy and transcendent." - Electronic Sound