The love of all things guitar is sublimely freaky here!
author: Robert Silverstein, 20th Century Guitar
control FREAK clocks in under fifteen minutes, yet there's a wealth of guitar-based jazz-rock sounds that combines the time-honored sound with some unexpected twists and turns. In addition to the seven tracks featuring Jehle on all guitars, bass, drums programming, robot voices and more, the CD features a part two enhanced track that let's you see what you hear...
Jehle proves himself to be a colorful character indeed and his freewheelin', inventive spirit and love of all things guitar comes sharply into focus on the sublimely freaky control FREAK CD.
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This is definitely not your father’s guitar picking clone album.
author: Doug Hilton
“control FREAK”, a new CD released by Bill Jehle under the “BellyJelly Music” label (ASCAP), is the next new, new thing in the music world. Bill presents a slightly-radical, very refreshing, large step down the road of self-produced musicians. Attention: the bar just got higher for his peers.
Reminiscent of Vincent Van Gogh, who cut off his ear for his art, Bill has integrated a “build-the-instrument” phase, a “compose-the-music” phase, a “play-the-instrument” phase, and an “augmented-reality production” phase to make this an extreme example of an artist who hands his soul to the listener. This is definitely not your father’s guitar picking clone album.
All the songs are tied together with a theme - what the newly-made guitars could accomplish, when pushed to their ultimate limit by their Master. The result transcends a “live” performance, since it takes some serious studio time to make an instrument misbehave inside your brain so well. All the tracks are layered with combinations of chords and riffs that leave you wanting more. This album is a real psycho-acoustic journey.
The worst thing to be said about his album is that there simply isn’t enough of it - there needs to be more, more, more!
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