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Intuite by Pierre Bensusan

Intuite

Release Date: 9/25/2001

Recording Date: 9/2001

Tracks: 11

Label: Favored Nations Records

Type: CD

Genre/Styles:
Country, Jazz, Solo Instrumental, Chamber Jazz, Ethnic Fusion, Guitar, Bluegrass, Contemporary Bluegrass, Guitar/New Age

Album Tracks (11)

Song Title
Length
1.
Kadourimdou
03:59
2.
The Welsh Arrow
02:19
3.
So Long Michael
03:13
4.
Intuite
04:52
5.
Bourrée Voltige
03:05
6.
Le Jardin d'Adonis
02:17
7.
La Hora Española
07:15
8.
L' Alchimiste
03:05
9.
Agadiramadan
04:59
10.
En Route from Scarborough
03:47
11.
Silent Passenger
03:36

What the Critics Say

For his first all-solo, all-instrumental, all-acoustic album, French fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Pierre Bensusan found himself signed to Favored Nations, a label owned by rock & roll stunt guitarist Steve Vai. It may not be an obvious pairing, but Vai has long been a fan of Bensusan's elegant and pancultural approach to the guitar, and with Intuite he offers Bensusan a warm, resonant ambience in which to stretch out. As you might expect, the compositions refer to any number of guitar traditions -- "Kadourimdou" nods to the blues before veering off into samba rhythms and a wholly unique combination of folk and jazz inflections; "En Route From Scarborough" (dedicated to fellow fingerstyle guitar hero John Renbourn) inverts the melody to "Scarborough Fair" and explores a whole new world of variations on that familiar theme; the sweet and melancholy "So Long Michael" (dedicated to the late Michael Hedges) comes from no single tradition in particular, but is a gentle soul cry inspired by the untimely death of a genius. Like most of Bensusan's work, this album can function as background music, but it would be a shame not to pay attention to the wit of his ideas and the grace of his playing. ~ Rick Anderson, Rovi

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