Intuite
 | Favored Nations, 2001, Audio CD Customer Rating: 12 reviews Recommend |
|---|
Ignore the surreal New Age cover painting with Pierre's leafy features peering quizzically from a tree — Intuite is a delightful album. It's also Bensusan's first entirely unaccompanied and totally acoustic recording in a professional career that began in 1976 with his Près de Paris album. Though he never took formal guitar lessons, Bensusan is among the world's most highly respected fingerstyle guitarists and has been dubbed the Claude Monet of the guitar. Aside from recordings, he has also produced several instructional books and videos for guitar players. Born in Algeria in 1957, he moved with his family to Paris when he was four. He took his early cues from the folk revival of the 1960s, but the breadth of his influences goes way beyond that, with flavors ranging through jazz, classical, and medieval into world and, in particular, Celtic music. All of these styles can be heard on Intuite, with perhaps the most striking example being the title track. This is one of seven pieces dedicated to other musicians, in this case Iraqi oud player Munir Bachir. Bensusan skillfully mimics the modality of the Arab lute even though he currently sticks exclusively to the unusual DADGAD guitar tuning. The piece dedicated to British guitarist John Renbourn, "En Route from Scarborough," borrows cleverly from the classic melody "Scarborough Fair," although this and all other compositions are Bensusan's own. Another highlight is "La Hora Española," which effectively evokes an Iberian ambience without resorting to clichés. Using neither vocals nor other instruments, Intuite constitutes a series of chilled abstract narratives — ideal music for unwinding after a stressful day. — Jon Lusk
- Kadourimdou
- The Welsh Arrow
- So Long Michael
- Intuite
- Bouree Voltige
- Le Jardin D'Adonis
- La Hora Espanola
- L'Alchimiste
- Agadiramadan
- En Route From Scarborough
- Silent Passenger
Title: Intuite
Sales Rank: 36363 in Music
Artist: Pierre Bensusan
Label: Favored Nations, 2001-09-25, Audio CD, 1 Disc
Item Dimensions: 0.21 pounds
Package Dimensions: 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches, 0.18 pounds
- Excellent DADGAD Album
- I discovered Pierre Bensusan's music when a track from Intuite was included on a sampler CD that came with an issue of Fingerstyle Guitar magazine.
Having heard the one sample track I bought the CD. I wasn't disappointed; it's a great album.
Guitar fans take note; all the material on this CD is played in DADGAD tuning. It's rare to find an entire album… More reviews
- Brilliant!!!
- Pierre Bensusan's Intuite is the most brilliant solo acoustic guitar recording i've ever heard and I've heard a ton! Everytime I listen to the cd I hear new things in it. His dialogue with the instrument is jaw dropping. To the reviewer who wrote about Kaki King........I think Kaki King is a great player but is not near to the level of musicianship as Pierre… More reviews
- Sublime... honestly.
- When you've played this CD through the first time you might find yourself with a mixture of elation and sadness. Sad only that it is so unique and perfect and there's not another ten albums to buy exactly like this one. The elation comes from the sublime being brought so near. That might sound overly poetic, but the… More reviews
- Guitarman
- DADGAD? Egad. Enough is enough. I'm happy that Pierre has learned to play in an alternate tuning but is that all he can do? The songs begin to run together and become hardly distinguishable. Hardly a true artist, I would suggest that Pierre go take some lessons to broden his scope. More reviews
- learn to spell in English
- I found about the muisic of Piere Bensusanne when I doing reserching on Michael Hegdes, of which I read on the Kaki King page, who is the best gutarits in the world. I sugest you listin to Kaki King befor anywhere, about acustic gutar. She is the great inovater in her hands on the gutar neck. Piere sounds boring after Kaki. And did you… More reviews
