Dominic Miller - Silent Light (2017) [Official Digital Download24-bit/96kHz]

Born in Argentina to an American father and Irish mother, guitarist Dominic Miller was raised in the U.S. from age 10 and then educated there and in England. Now he lives in France, though he has toured the globe for the past three decades. Aptly, "Silent Light" Miller's ECM debut, featuring him solo and with percussion accompaniment has a very international feel, with the Latin influence strong in such pieces as Baden (dedicated to Brazilian guitarist-composer Baden Powell). Le Pont has an early 20th-century Parisian air, while Valium evokes Celtic tunes in the vein of Bert Jansch and Fields of Gold is a hushed instrumental take on one of Sting's best-known ballads. Miller has long been known as Sting's right-hand man on guitar and co-writer of the worldwide hit Shape of My Heart, among others. Miller has also worked with the likes of Paul Simon, The Chieftains and Plácido Domingo. The guitarist's playing has prompted praise from Simon, who points out, in a liner note to the album, that Miller has a beautiful touch, with a fragrance of jazz and English folk.

When Dominic chose 'Silent Light'as the title of his new album, it provoked some interesting questions in my mind. I'm neither a scientist nor a mathematician but I am interested in whether or not there is a connection between audible sound waves and light.
I wonder for example whether the harmonic series is infinite, physicists would probably quibble about'divergence'and 'convergence' and so on, but say if this were the case, then could sound waves beyond the audible range eventually become light?
I don't know the answer, but I do know that when infinity is introduced into any equation things can get very 'fuzzy' which of course is just the area where artistic metaphor and license are allowed to play.
So I would say categorically, as his musical colleague for almost three decades, that whenever Dominic plays the guitar he creates colour, a complete spectrum of emotions, sonic architecture built of resonance as well as silence, he lifts the spirit into higher realms, perhaps those realms where silence reigns, in other words 'Silent Light'.

– Sting.

Tracklist:

01 - What You Didn't Say
02 - Urban Waltz
03 - Water
04 - Baden
05 - En Passant
06 - Angel
07 - Chaos Theory
08 - Fields of Gold
09 - Tisane
10 - Valium
11 - Le Pont

Produced by Manfred Eicher. Engineered by Jan Erik Kongshaug.
Recorded in March 2016 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway.

Musicians:
Dominic Miller - guitar, electric bass on "7"
Miles Bound - percussion on "1,3-5"; drums on "7"


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