I wrote about Erik Mongrain when his first album Fates came out in 2007. I mentioned that he is a self-taught French-Canadian acoustic guitar player whose two-handed “air tap” technique will change the way you think an acoustic guitar can sound. His latest album, Equilibrium, features more air tapping but this time around it’s much less furiously frenetic. Mongrain, instead, takes a much more nuanced and percussive approach. There are melodies but the songs don’t rely on them for propulsion. It’s an organically somber mood that Mongrain creates with the sounds of scraping steel against wood. He certainly understands (like George Harrison said) about gently weeping guitars and that’s just about what it sounds like here.
MP3 | Erik Mongrain – Muse Equilibrium
MP3 | Erik Mongrain – Raindigger Equilibrium
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