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В 2005 году увидела свет самая грандиозная работа Криса Ри – музыкальная книга "Blue Guitars", над которой он работал в студии 18 месяцев подряд. Получившийся в результате художественный альбом представляет собой собрание 11 CD (130 блюзовых композиций!), созданных Ри-музыкантом. Этот сверх-альбом "Blue guitars" объединил две страсти музыканта - блюз и живопись. Каждый из 11 дисков посвящен одному из блюзовых стилей - если не считать открывающего серию диска "Beginnings", на котором Крис Ри занимается именно истоками блюза - этнической музыкой, ритмами регги, и финального "60's & 70's" - в это время, по словам Криса Ри блюз изменился, "Вудсток превратил настоящий миссисипи-блюз во что-то совершенно иное". Хотя стилевой диапазон блюза, представленного в этом сборнике, максимально широк - от привычных "Chicago blues" и "Electric Memphis blues" до таких диковин как "Celtic and Irish blues". Несмотря на высокую цену (более 100 евро), мультимедийное собрание творений Криса Ри только в Европе разошлась тиражом 100 000 экземпляров
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Product Description
Having created the cover of Stony Road and interpreted the cover of The Blue Juke Box the close relationship between Chris Rea's music and his painting was defined. This relationship was clearly leading in one direction, a ground-breaking idea to link the two driving forces in his life. The idea of Blue Guitars was born. Eleven albums from Chris Rea in one book pack, 130 brand new Chris Rea songs inspired by the blues ranging globally across all his own interpretations of this musical form, songs that Chris believes are some of his best to date. He now had a body of work that would in normal circumstances have taken a decade to create; songs that conjured up all his favourite musical influences that had set him off down the road nearly thirty years previously. Instead of releasing all the albums in one go, or over a period of six months or a year, he decided to create something that combines his paintings with his music. Not out of some egocentric notion that his paintings and music would be appreciated in the same way, but simply that they are now inextricably linked


The beginning of a journey, February 18, 2006
By J. Moore (Grenada, MS United States)
Chris Rea is a musician's musician - in other words, musicians recognize him for much more than a few hit songs and a tasty slide guitar. He has the heart of an artist and something even more important - INTEGRITY. I have just received "Blue Guitars" and have barely had time to listen to but a few tracks. I began by watching the DVD which only whetted my appetite to immerse myself, over time, in the whole project. What is immediately apparent is that Rea has not shirked his responsibility to be true to his own musical vision and also to the expectation of his fans who have come to expect exemplarary musicianship as well as audio excellence. A sample if somewhat cursory listening has confirmed my suspicions. "Blue Guitars" is a work of mammoth proportions and emotional depth. I fully intend to update this review over time as I am sure this is a journey that is going to take a while
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