Antoine Dufour

Antoine Dufour: Sound Pictures

by C. Michael Bailey
June 12, 2011

Superhuman acoustic guitar playing was de rigueur for the New Age music of the 1980s and '90s, though personality often suffered at the expense of technical ability. Only a few artists:, such as Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges were able to float as cream to the top of a pile of wannabes, all who could play perfectly, but with absolutely no spirit. On Antoine Dufou's fifth solo CD, Sound Pictures the guitarist plays his own composition, “Spiritual ...