Monk Rock

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:58:10
Personnel: John Michael Talbot (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric 12-string guitar, banjo, sitar, background vocals); John Michael Talbot; John Gillatin (keyboards); Leland Sklar (bass guitar); Neil Wilkinson (drums); Jerry McPherson (guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar); Phil Keaggy (electric guitar); Eric Darken (percussion). Audio Mixer: Brent King. Liner Note Author: John Michael Talbot. Recording information: Bill Schnee Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Dark Horse Studios, Franklin, TN; Little Portion Hermitage, Berryville, AR; OMNI Sound, Nashville, TN. Photographer: Rick Ims. In 1968, writer/producer David Axelrod took over the career of the proto-psych one-hit wonders the Electric Prunes for the entirety of two thoroughly bizarre psychedelic-religious rock operas, Mass in F Minor and Release of an Oath. Those albums are an important touchstone when listening to John Michael Talbot's Monk Rock: after a pair of fairly typical pieces of hard-rocking CCM, "One Body in Christ" and "Spread the Good News," Monk Rock is basically a one-album distillation of those two Electric Prunes records in concept and execution: songs like "Sanctus" and "Kyrie" swing between Latin chanting and more melodic English transliterations, set to jangle-fuzzy, neo-psych guitar rock tunes. "Te Deum," which oddly interpolates a fast-picking banjo into the mix, is the best of the lot, but the entire album deserves a certain amount of respect for its oddball majesty and the fact that Talbot is approaching this material completely straight but without the ponderous self-seriousness that would sink a project like this. ~ Stewart Mason
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)