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No Love Is Sorrow is the third solo album by American singer-songwriter-guitarist Buck Curran. The albums primary influence draws upon personal experience, along with an idiosyncratic musical style developed over many years as a solo artist and member of the psych-folk duo Arborea. The album presents a body of soundscapesacoustic and electric instrumentals, psychedelic poetic folk songscompositions inspired by visions of the surreal landscapes of life: love, hope, loss, fear, transformation, the light of expecting a newborn child, dreams, the realization of impermanence with the recent losses of family members and friends. Further inspiration was drawn from music as wide-ranging as experimental music, 60s, and 70s Folk and psychedelic Blues-rock, Jazz, Western classical music, and Indian classical music.
Ghost on the Hill, Deep in the Lovin Arms of My Babe, Odissea, and One Evening are very personal songs that include lyrical themes of love, memories, and fear: Ghost on the Hill is a haunting and poetic memoir of life past, One Evening (in the poetic style of Bob Dylans Its Alright, Ma, Im Only Bleeding) is a harrowing statement charged with scenes of contemporary life: love and hope, uncertainty and fear created by society, technology, and politics. Blue Raga, No Love Is Sorrow, Marie, For Adele, Chromaticle, and Lucia are experimental tone poems created through improvisation on acoustic guitar. War Behind the Sun is a searing psychedelic electric guitar instrumental. Django (New Years Day) is Currans debut on piano inspired by the music of Claude Debussy and Erik Satie.
The mournful, elegant tones that neo-folk artist Buck Curran draws from voice and guitar have a capacity to linger in the air long after the notes have faded. Recorded at the American guitarists home in northern Italy shortly before the area went into lockdown, No Love Is Sorrow is a beautiful piece of work, interspersing space, atmospheric instrumentals with more complete songs like spooky western Ghost On The Hill, the ballad Deep In The Lovin Arms of My Babe’ and the title track. Curran sings with the gravelly decorum of Mark Lanegan but the songs remain, bewitchingly, just over the next horizon. 8/10 Peter Watts, UNCUT
filled with beauty, a minimialist psychedelic folk. Roughly half instrumental and half straight songwriter-folk, Currans guitar is a layered, many-faceted thing, shapeshifting with each track, digging its way into your ears, past your brain and right to your heart. Times are tough, but the music is still something special. I hope these new albums help smooth out some of the rough spots in your day or provide a few moments of relaxing meditation. Aaron Stein, JamBase
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