Disfarmer, Bill Frisell's latest Nonesuch release, is out now. The Times (UK) gives it four stars. "Frisell’s filmic themes summon up the ghosts of a lost America. The results are gently beautiful." The BBC calls it "quietly impressive ... a patchwork quilt sewn with empathy, warmth and a sense of weary pathos. The result is a subtle, but moving experience. Jazz Times describes the album as "26 majestic, melodic vignettes evoking bygone honkytonks and tumbleweed towns ... Like a great film score, Disfarmer's success rests on a great motif."
Disfarmer, Bill Frisell's latest Nonesuch release, is out in the US tomorrow and is already in stores in the UK today. The album sets music to the images of the late Michael Disfarmer, a curmudgeonly character who captured his rural Arkansan neighbors in photographic portraits during the 1940s and '50s.
The Times (UK) gives it four stars. "Frisell’s filmic themes summon up the ghosts of a lost America," says reviewer John Bungey. "The results are gently beautiful." Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk.
The BBC calls it "quietly impressive ... a composite portrait worthy of Disfarmer himself." Reviewer Colin Buttimer summons his own poignant imagery when he describes Frisell's setting for Disfarmer's photos, writing,
Brooding undercurrents of bluegrass and the blues itself ebb and flow like wind on cornfields ... Disfarmer is a patchwork quilt sewn with empathy, warmth and a sense of weary pathos. The result is a subtle, but moving experience.
Read the complete review at bbc.co.uk.
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Jazz Times describes the album as "26 majestic, melodic vignettes evoking bygone honkytonks and tumbleweed towns ... Like a great film score, Disfarmer's success rests on a great motif." There's more at jazztimes.com.
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To listen through the full album for one more day, visit NPR's Exclusive First Listen at npr.org.
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