When someone makes an instrumental album with just an acoustic guitar, he`s imposing a lot of restraints on his sound and I imagine it can be a struggle to make his album distinctive in some way. Not sure to what extent Frantz Casseus has won that struggle, because I found this album awful easy to tune out once I started playing it.
Yes, the playing is impeccable, the sound is gentle and if you want you can conjure up the kind of scene that Joy Circumcision mentions. If you want to relax or are of a meditative disposition, you could get a lot out of Haitian Dances, but for me, overall, I thought the sound was just too delicate and refined. After a few tracks, I wanted to change it for something a bit more robust.
So I`m just voting ok for this; don`t think I`ll be playing it again - at least not until I retire, or find nirvana.
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