James Blackshaw
Sunshrine

A rustle of bells opens this sublime album by the talented James Blackshaw. An album that gradually takes you into a world of joy and fantasy only to throw you into an abyss of unknown emotions. Festive bells accompany a playful spirit that slowly transcends into the album, being swept away by a whirlwind of sounds emanating from the young Blackshaw's guitar, extracting magnificent sounds that seem to come from another world.

The strings cut. They wound in that long suite that gives the title to this precious CD-R released in 2006.

The bells return, completely devastated by those acoustic guitars as roaring as they are painful and romantic.

The sounds chase each other and dive headfirst into true art.
Art that knows how to move, involve.

The guitars let their prey escape: those joyful bells, now finally free to jingle in full joy, awaiting that brief final segment: a "Skylark Herald's Dawn", a short piece of prewar folk nature that awakens the senses and overwhelms them.

Before our eyes, as the notes of that guitar as sublime as ghostly play, a fan of colors and nuances unfolds. Exciting.

An album to take away and listen to when you feel completely different from usual.