April 19th, 2008
Melody Jam? You have to believe this
Chicken Noodles by Buckethead
This is a shorter review.
Chicken Noodles is a much newer album and my prediction is that it is already anonymous or is going to be forgotten soon but in my opinion this is a landmark album. I haven’t heard of an entire album full of Jam as this. Miles Davis’s “Bitches Brew” was a double album of jam but it featured many artistes. However in this album you are only going to hear two instruments, the guitar and the keyboard. The musicians of the album are the highly versatile and immensely gifted guitarist Buckethead whose Monsters and Robots album I reviewed earlier on great-anonymous-albums.com. The other person and worthy of every mention is Buckethead’s associate on the Fender Rhodes, Travis Dickerson. I have listened to the duo on the Population Overdrive album and was very impressed with the keyboard skills of Travis but this albums takes their association to another level.
Running into a little over 50 min this album is enjoyable whether listened to with full attention or while doing other tasks. The album has only 4 instrumentals and they are: 1) Enter Tomorrow (13:07), 2) Loss From a Distance (18:01) 3) Sorrow of Discord (11:28) 4) and False Directions (8:24). Each one is sublime and beautiful in melody in its own way and is sure to transport you to another world of listening enjoyment.
As of today one one review of it exists on Amazon.com and I am not sure how many more will appear but do take a listen to this unusual but superb album from one of today’s finest guitarists.
I have also included it under Acoustic and Instrumental category though I would normally include Buckethead under Heavy Metal.
Buy Buckethead’s Chicken Noodles at Amazon.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Buckethead always likes to take chances to do things that no one else seems to want to try. His work with Travis Dickerson is interesting and really pushes the limits of the “jam” or “jazz-fusion” cliche.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Yes, that’s the reason he is more listenable than the rest and stands out from the hundreds or thousands of shredders out there. Thanks for the comment.