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FEW WORDS is a guitar driven six song set by Worship Leader/Guitarist Roger Brainard that breaks the boundaries of genre and fashion to create a spiritually pure and spontaneous work. 'I don't try to predict how music will be perceived or how I will be evaluated. My mission is to hear with my heart and express with guitar and voice. My goal is to touch God and bless people'. Although his style is uniquely his own Roger fits comfortably in the company of Clapton, Santana, Jeff Beck and Joe Satriani.
There is a lot of Guitar in Christian music, but not much Guitar-Centric or solo instrumental music. FEW WORDS detours from the mainstream by incorporating melody, lyric and solo Guitar in an open improvisational format. There is no doubt that Roger's main vehicle of expression is the electric guitar. His delivery, honed by years of gigging, studio work and worship, is assuring, peaceful and powerful. 'I have been very encouraged by my Church and Pastors to pull out all the stops and play straight from my heart'
Roger was once asked to sit in with the worship band for a national leadership conference. He found out later that his role was to raise a few eyebrows and be a catalyst for discussion on their future direction of worship music. "I felt pretty honored when I found out".
FEW WORDS starts with 'Give Him the Praise', a call and response between voice and guitar that achieves the momentum of a cross-country Gospel Train, the album ends the journey with "Love never fails" a guitar powered Euro-beat with lyrics lifted almost verbatim from II Corinthians 13:6-10. In between are four instrumentals that weave and wind from the windswept mountains of 'And the Wind', to the rarified atmosphere of praise in 'the Bells of Heaven', to the Afro/Cuban 'Here I am' and the majestic 'Pillar of Fire'
Hi Rog, I made my way to your music player and guess what? It rocks! It's really good, you were right, I like the vibe/sound (you had mentioned I might like your stuff because of the myspace friends I have up). Wasn't expecting your music to be so soulful and moving.
My favs (so far, have more tracks to listen to still) were "And the Wind," "The Bells of Heaven," and dug the groove in "Pillar of Fire," very good ole fashioned blues.
The 1st track (AND THE WIND) on the player is really good, just soars from the get-go, love it, no breaks, pauses of boredom from the listener. Feel like you're on the 'ride.' Love the meandering riffs and reverb, AND the emotion, kind of just pours out effortlessly. From the get-go of the song, I thought it just took off. Don't know why but it felt smooth like cascading water, to my ear, really fresh vibe. Dug the wails; huge emotion; nice bass-lines at end (liked the touch/punch of the bass).
On the 2nd track (GIVE HIM THE PRAISE) I couldn't stop my feet from tapping to the beat, love the soul and funky groove. Think if I saw this played live, I'd be into it and groovin.'
The 3rd cut (HERE I AM)-- Very Santana--nice! Thought the guitar tone and playing is masterful (very clean riffing)..
4th track (BELLS OF HEAVEN) ...simply LOVE! conjured up Christopher Cross' "Sailing" from the past (always had a special place in my heart for that song. ...Some songs do that upon the first listen...). This one spoke to me, really liked the deep-hearted rythm and blues chug, flowed very nicely.
Well, hey, no wonder Adam (LEE) liked what he heard. Take care till next time, Nathalujah