Album Review: Only Love from Anson Wright
Album: Only Love Artist: Anson Wright Label: Saphu Records Website: www.ansonwright.com Guitarist-composer Anson Wright fashions smooth blues with a flare for ambient ruminations on his latest release Only Love . His sonic reflections flow with a stream of consciousness that induces soothing ripples from start to finish. The recording features all original modern jazz instrumentals with seven compositions written by Anson Wright, and two compositions by his pianist Weber Iago (aka Jasnam Daya Singh). The breezy musings orchestrated by Wright on "Solstice" whisper softly in the listener's ear as Jasnam Daya Singh's piano keys twinkle with an undulating gait. The moonlit ringlets in the melodic trimmings canvassing "Chelsea" circle around the listener, focusing the instrumentation on producing a winsome sonorous. Wright's guitar chords shape slinky verses along "Inner Motion" that resemble a gently tempo-ed samba, transitioning into ba...