Marc Dorsa
Twilight's Path
© 2003 Marc Dorsa (783707673325)
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Original compositions performed on unique instruments (18-string Sympitar and 14-string guitar), Twilight's Path invites you to close your eyes, feel the gentleness and journey to a place you may never have been to before...
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It was 1979 during my Freshman year at U.C. Berkeley that I went to a campus guitar concert and fell in love with a very new sound coming from the hearts and guitars of Alex de Grassi, (the late) Robbie Basho and Will Ackerman. I was enchanted and completely captivated that evening.
I met Robbie Basho that first year while at Cal and began studying with him for the next several years. Robbie was a dear and gentle man and he reminded me of a Scottish Santa Claus. Robbie had the longest finger nails I have ever seen (man or woman) and he had a kind of sweet fumbliness about him that made you want to take care of him. I learned from Robbie so much about deeply seeing and feeling music. When Robbie would teach a song, or when he would introduce a song in concert, he would often poetically describe in very visual terms the song's story that was about to unfold: maybe horses running through a stream or a lover calling for a lost mate or a dove flying into an open church window. Music started to become much more visual for me, which I really enjoy. One of the most memorable times at Cal was when I played a duet with Robbie in a local concert.
Around this same time I met Alex de Grassi backstage at a concert in San Francisco. I was fortunate enough to have a few lessons with Alex here and there, all the while studying regularly with Robbie. As I recall, I didn't tell Robbie about these lessons for a while...I didn't want him to feel that I was "studying behind his back". Robbie absolutely adored Alex's music and had once told me the following: "John Fahey added a horse to the cart and got it rolling, Robbie added wings to the horse so it could fly, Alex came along, left the horse and took the wings." I've always enjoyed the imagery and the respect within those words. Alex's music for me was rich with colors and mystery, intricacy and delicacy. I wanted to crawl inside of it and try to understand how and why it touched me so.
Many years passed since studying with Robbie and Alex and it was in 1996 that I began to feel a musical deepening within me. I met my dear friend Fred Carlson who let me borrow his amazing Sympitar and I was in love. Fred built Zephyr for me, and a few years later Kali. Twilight's Path was soon born out of my dance with these two wood beings.
So to Fred, Alex and Robbie: I am forever grateful. :)
-Marc
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- author: Lorenzo Garcia
I ordered this cd a week ago and have continuously listened to it to the point that i ordered the accompanying songbook!-These songs breathe of life and love and hope-swome of the most inpiring and transcending guitar music I have ever heard-this cd enhances my life-thank you
Twilight's Path, Wow.... Wow
author: Glenn ManchesterThat's about all I can say about Mark and his music. Wow! Truly breathtaking, leaving you speachless. If anyone has ever taken a beautiful instrument like this and painted a magnificent picture after picture after picture, Mark has accomplished that on this CD. To use sound to form visions is definetly a unique skill. Mark has mastered that one in this great album.
Marc Dorsa
author: Robert Reverb TomberlinThis is instrumental guitar at it's smoothest and finest. If you would like to relax and even meditate you can do so with this wonderful, moving guitar expression. This artist would be an execellent addition to anyone's collection. Marc definitely gets a "10+" from me!
Twilight's Path
author: Sherri CousartA wonderful expression of uniqueness truly is expressed in Marc's music. Twilight's Path calls to me, like an invitation, to close my eyes, feel the gentleness in his music and travel to a place I haven't been and yet, I can go there over and over again!
Relax into the Redwoods
author: Nick PetersOnce a person has lived among the redwoods, one is forever blessed with a change in perspective. Marc takes the perspective of these magestic trees that surround him and through his unique voice shows that all destinations are ultimately circular and therefore are allowed to be unrushed. There are some beautiful turns in this work that show an intimate portrait of a master, playing two masterpiece instruments in what, like all great solo works, is a collaboration between the instrument and player!
Twilight's Path
author: Fred CarlsonWith Twilight's Path, Marc Dorsa has created an enchanting world of sound. The pieces strike me as not so much about melody and harmony in the traditional sense (though both are present in this world he creates) but are rather pictures in sound of a cherished place he wants to show us. Paintings of a mysterious land full of shimmering light and soft shadow. This is a recording you want to really enter into, giving yourself to this world Marc paints. His playing is meticulous, and the unique guitars he plays are recorded beautifully. I listen to a lot of solo acoustic guitar music, and it's wonderful to hear a new voice in this genre that is so clear, focused and true to its vision. I can't wait for the next view into this gifted artists' musical worlds!
Beautiful, soothing and inspirational
author: Jeffrey TitusHowever you experience Marc's excellent musicianship and exuberant instrumental expressions, you'll certainly discover, as I have, a great guitarist with much to say and an acute sensitivity and dynamic range, rare amongst today's acoustic performers. Marc does not try to shred your ears with chops and tricks, though he has the ability to do so... his unique instruments soothe one's soul with new sounds and his compositions are warm beams of sunlight reverberating from the strings and surrounding you with a license to open your heart. I have taken a walk down Twilight's Path and I think I'll go there often.