Dec 11 2007
Abysis Projects
Talented guitarist from Holland, Devapath was influenced early on by flamenco guitarist Vicente Armijo, and later travelled to India, meeting flute player Milind Date. These influences combined to form the East, West fusion of rhythms and styles, forming a unique style and sound, the Abysis Projects sound. This is perhaps best displayed in the great track Granada Bombay I am offering this track here, because I believe it to be commercialy unavailable.
At times, Abysis Projects music floats across the seas to the middle East, with tracks like “Little Burma Buddha” from the album Travels in Sound and Science, which oozes mystical atmosphere, with the Pipes taking up an anguished melody, vying with guitar for melody and counterpoint. From the same album, “Ignivomo” is a classic Abysis work, featuring guitar melody and accompanying Violin, later the Flute, developing into a more rhythmic middle section, only for the plaintive melody to return. “Para Montse” is a plaintive guitar duet.
The Album The Universe Will Never End features mostly soft, dreamy, landscape settings, the opening track “Air Minor, By Way Of Passion”, 10 minutes of repeated arpeggio accompanyment on guitar, with melody taken by guitar, many embellishments like trills and flamenco like ornaments. Later, Horns join in with the melody making a lush sounding track which sets the album scene.
Other albums currently available are Sufi Sound, and the very evocative Monte El Viento, both those albums having tracks that evoke exotic places like Cassablanca, Cataluna, and the Orient.
Classical guitar solos by Barrios, Piazzola, and Baden Powell have also been interpreted by Devapath, hopefully soon these recordings will also be available. If you enjoy world music with exotic rhythms and influences, not to mention haunting guitar melodies, lavish Flute and Pipes, then Abysis Projects is something you will cherish.
Abysis Projects music is available at Legal Sounds
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