Acoustic Visions is the sixth solo album by electric guitar player
David T. Chastain
David Taylor Chastain (born August 31, 1953) is an American heavy metal guitarist and the owner of Leviathan Records and Diginet Music.
Chastain emerged in the mid-1980s along with a wave of other neo-classical guitarists. He has released ab ...
. This album is notable because it is the first album by David T. Chastain to be entirely recorded with acoustic guitars. Chastain also mixed, engineered, digitally edited,
sequenced, and produced the album himself.
Reception
AllMusic reviewer
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine (; born June 18, 1973) is an American music critic and senior editor for the online music database AllMusic. He is the author of many artist biographies and record reviews for AllMusic, as well as a freelance writer, occ ...
calls David T. Chastain "a little weak", saying that "he rarely writes a memorable theme -- but as a player he's exceptional, taking these compositions further than anyone would have expected. He may no longer have the audience he had in the '80s, and he may no longer be turning out the kind of heavy metal that filled stadiums in the '80s, but Acoustic Visions indicates that David T. Chastain is now playing better and with more subtlety than he ever has."
Track listing
All songs written by David T. Chastain except where noted
#"Set" - 4:04
#"Pyramid of the Sun" - 3:58
#"Appassionata Minore" - 4:19
#"Cadenza in a Harmonic Minor" - 3:49
#"Inner Journeys" - 4:10
#"Dirge for Yesterday" - 4:01
#"Evening with Juilliard" - 5:21
#"Lifetime" - 4:02
#"Time and Time Again" - 4:32
#"STC" - 3:55
#"Escape from Thera" - 6:27
#"Untitled Track" (E. Smith) - 4:27 performed by Fortaleza
Personnel
*David T. Chastain - acoustic 6 and 12 string guitars, producer, engineer, mixing
*Steven Taylor - art direction, graphic design
References
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1998 albums