Album Review: Heat Songs from George Nazos
Album: Heat Songs Artist: George Nazos Label: Street of Stars Website: www.georgenazos.com Born in Athens, Greece and working in New York City, guitarist-composer George (Giorgos) Nazos blends various styles of guitar from acoustic jazz and flamenco to collaborative freestyle and ambient. Nazos moves through a gamut of expressions on his latest recording Heat Songs , weaving sublime sensations in the chord sequences integrated with improvised patterns. His studies on the guitar demonstrate his imaginative leanings and melodic sensibilities. Joined by Harvie S on bass, Tony Jefferson on drums, and vocalist Tamuz Nissim, the effort is a finely orchestrated collaboration. Nissim's soothing lullaby-lilt along "Bird on a Wire" is catacomb by Nazos' guitar trickles as his chords amble in a meditative fashion. Plucking at notes in a freestyle manner across "Our Melody," Nazos creates a mosaic of sounds framed in Harvie S' throbbin...