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Victor Johnson : Tangled
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Unconventional chords, haunting melodies, astonishingly beautiful lyrics, and a voice that will leave you spellbound.
Genre: Folk: like Joni
Release Date: 1999
Tangled
Victor Johnson
Record Label: Victor Johnson
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Melancholy 0:00 Album Only
2. Way to Blue 0:00 Album Only
3. Tangled 0:00 Album Only
4. Aphrodite 0:00 Album Only
5. Amandine 0:00 Album Only
6. All the Mornings of the World 0:00 Album Only
7. Frontporch Dreaming 0:00 Album Only
8. Blue 0:00 Album Only
9. The Moon and Me 0:00 Album Only
10. Three Days in Paris 0:00 Album Only
11. Beneath the Silver Moon 0:00 Album Only
12. Ocean 0:00 Album Only
13. Sunflower 0:00 Album Only
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Album Notes

Victor Johnson uses unconventional chords, weaving melodies, and vibrant, resonating images to create a deeply textured musical tapestry.

Sometime reminiscent of Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake, Johnson's music possesses a striking originality.

He is also noted for his exceptional voice and lyrics that seem to leave one spellbound.

Tangled features the song Three Days in Paris, a song about being in love in France, "walking in sunflower fields" and climbing cathedrals only to find that "the bells wouldn't ring".

It also features a lush ballad, Blue, and the rich harmony of Melancholy.

All in all, Tangled explores the depths of human love, showing how tangled up emotions can be, ranging from an ode to divine beauty, Aphrodite, to love that is utterly lost in All the Mornings of the World.

Johnson, a natural, intuitive musician, recorded and played all the instruments on his cd, including guitar, piano, bass, and sax.

He captures the passion and artistry of each musical idea, as if each song was a fine painting.

His music has been said to "induce concentration."

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REVIEWS

NO indie folk collection is complete without tangled.
author: Michael Burgin
                            
I love the srtipped down almost live feel of this album, i especially love the melody on 'wait to blue.' Take Nick Drake and add a little Joni Mitchel, and Victors unique, unexpected, yet welcome chord progressions, and you get the great indie release Tangled.

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Drake's influence is primarily spotted in Johnson's nature-oriented and melancho
author: Mikael Ledin, The Nick Drake Files, Sweden
                            
Atlanta-based singer & songwriter Victor Johnson's first solo cd, TANGLED, is dedicated to the memory of Nick Drake. Drake's influence is primarily spotted in Johnson's nature-oriented and melancholic lyrics, while his singing voice might be likened to an American version of a classical trained Morrissey. Add David Sylvianesque song-titles like BENEATH THE SILVER MOON and we are bound to have high expectations. The result is not disappointing: the beautiful harmonies, the unexpected chord progressions and the inspired lyrics live up to every part of the description. For the next album, I would personally wish for some more "rough edges" in the deliverance and more variation in the arrangements, but it's nevertheless a promising debut.

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This CD is really a gem!
author: Bob Muller, Greenville, S.c.
                            
This CD is really a gem! Obviously with a name like "waytoblu", you know Victor is going to be influenced by Nick Drake, but there's some great alternative tuning and some folk/jazz arrangements that are very tasty. Plus really cool artwork on it of tangled, twisted roots...I like this disc a lot, it might just sneak into my top 10 for '99...and Victor has shared his lyrics with us, so I don't have to add anything on that.

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Really enjoyed the cd!
author: Michelle Malone, Musician
                            
Really enjoyed the cd!

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