Sea Changes & Coelacanths: A Young Person's Guide to John Fahey
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| Compilation album by John Fahey | ||||
| Released | November 21, 2006 | |||
| Genre | Folk, Avant-garde | |||
| Length | 127:54 | |||
| Label | Table of the Elements | |||
| Producer | Jim O'Rourke, Jeff Hunt, Jon Philpot | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Dusted Magazine | (no rating) |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.6/10) |
| Stylus | (B+) |
Sea Changes & Coelacanths: A Young Person's Guide to John Fahey is a compilation album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 2006.
Sea Changes & Coelacanths consists of the releases Womblife, Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues and Georgia Stomps, Atlanta Struts and Other Contemporary Dance Favorites. All three were released on the Atlanta label Table of the Elements.
Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues was originally released in 2003 as a one-sided clear-vinyl 12-inch vinyl LP. The recordings were taken from Fahey's Yttrium Festival live performance in Chicago in November 1996.
Included are essays by David Fricke, Jason Gross, Byron Coley, and Dave Grubbs.
In his Stylus review, music critic Stewart Voegtlin compares the "old" and "new" Fahey, and cited "the most striking music" as those tracks from Georgia Stomps" which provided Fahey "the chance to maintain his moving target status, eschewing big-bodied acoustic for shimmering electric." Regarding the tracks from Womblife, "It doesn’t always work: one often strains to hear the guitar over the invasive din." Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues sounds "...like the “old” Fahey: forlorn, ruminative, down on his luck. There was never really Old or New John. New John was always Old; the Old was always presented in brand New ways. So, raise a glass to neither: John was always at his best with a leg hanging over either side of the fence."
Critic Derek Taylor summed up the compilation writing "Those seeking the virtuosic Fahey of albums like God, Time and Causality will find him largely absent here, but the trade-off comes in a haunting set of performances that can swallow the listener whole, much like the ancient marine life named in the collection’s cryptic title."
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