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Adrian Belew

Side Three (2006)

Adrian Belew is one of the most original guitarists I’ve ever listened to. He played with many famous musicians, such as David Bowie and King Crimson, but at that himself is still underrated and not such famous musician.

Last year Adrian started to record his solo albums seriously by releasing, although not of long duration, but valuable albums “Side One” and “Side Two”. This year Adrian released the next album with a quite predictable title “Side Three”. This album has a similar organization - it contains nine full value track on 35 minutes of total duration (and that’s unusual in itself, if we would take an average duration of present-time music albums into account).

As regards to music, “Side Three” is a deserving continuation of the line, which, however, has its own identity. Only the last track “And” repeats an altered “Ampersand” version from “Side One”. The rest of the album sound freshly enough, but at the same time each track is performed in Adrian’s “firm” style. It’s meaningless to describe the music - you’d better get this album and listen to it yourself. You won’t be disappointed. Reviewed by Igor Brynskich.