want to plug one of my favorite releases of 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tawWSAgLd_M#t=87 The Guardian review http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/10/jonathan-wilson-fanfare-review The acclaim for Jonathan Wilson´s 2011 debut, Gentle Spirit, meant he could call on some real heavyweights for the follow-up. The assembled cast here includes Jackson Browne and the Jayhawks, while none other than David Crosby and Graham Nash drop into provide trademark silky harmonies. The result is that Fanfare is something of an epic shrine to softer 70s rock: balanced on a sixpence between Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon,John Lennon´s Mind Games and namesake Dennis Wilson's exquisitely weary Pacific Ocean Blue. Any danger of a drift from homage into pastiche is avoided by the audible sincerity of the 38-year-old's visions, and some top-drawer songwriting. The self-produced album probably could have done with a stronger guiding hand: guitar solos go on too long; fragile moods are shattered by a squawking sax. However, the likes of the delicately epic title track, Dear Friend and Future Vision's tom tom-spattered paean to "the sweet caprice of love" are dreamlike and magical. Fanfare takes several plays to fully reveal its charms, but persistence is more than worthwhile.
