Bill Frisell's latest Nonesuch album, Disfarmer, is out now. Billboard sees it as evidence of Frisell's being "best suited for exploring vast territory and responding with imaginative integrity." Q says, "As ever, Frisell’s playing, all texture and touch, raises matters way beyond the merely atmospheric," and selects the album's "shimmering instrumental version" of a Hank Williams tune as an Essential Track of the month. The Philadelphia Inquirer gives the album three-and-a-half stars, praising its "wonderfully rootsy and evocative music" and the "superb ensemble" that plays it.
Bill Frisell's latest Nonesuch album, Disfarmer, was released late last month, and the critical acclaim continues to come in. "Creatively restless," says Billboard's Dan Ouellette, "Frisell is best suited for exploring vast territory and responding with imaginative integrity, which is evidenced on Disfarmer."
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Q's Peter Kane says, "As ever, Frisell’s playing, all texture and touch, raises matters way beyond the merely atmospheric." The magazine selects the album's take on the Hank Williams tune "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)" as one of the 50 Essential Tracks of the month, explaining that "less is definitely more on ace guitarist's lovely, shimmering instrumental version" of the song. Read more at qthemusic.com.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer gives the album three-and-a-half stars. Inquirer music critic Dan DeLuca sees it "as wonderfully rootsy and evocative music," even for those unaware of the life and work of its inspiration, the mid-century Arkansan photographer Michael Disfarmer.
DeLuca praises Frisell's fellow performers on the album—Greg Leisz on steel guitars and mandolin, Jenny Scheinman on violin, and Viktor Krauss on bass—as a "superb ensemble" and the album's music, featuring Frisell's "delicate originals," as "by turns haunting and sprightly."
Read the complete review at philly.com.
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