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Jason Becker - Perspective
Jason Becker - Perspective
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Tracks
1. Primal
2. Rain
3. End of the Beginning
4. Higher
5. Blue
6. Life and Death
7. Empire
8. Serrana
9. Meet Me in the Morning
Release date:
05/2001
Total time:
60:48
Description
Between the release of his first solo album,
Perpetual Burn
, in 1988 and the making of this, his second,
speed metal
guitarist
Jason Becker
suffered one of the most devastating blows a human being can: he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), the incurable ailment that gradually renders its victims paralyzed.
Perspective
was recorded during the period when
Becker
was losing his ability to move, much less play the guitar, and thus marks a transition from his days of frantic fretboard work to less speedy playing and to writing music that is played by other musicians and by computer; much of the album was written on a Mackintosh and then executed by guest performers. The result is that
Becker
, being unable to produce his usual
heavy metal
performances, has turned to a more varied musical palette, allowing in a wide range of musical influences.
"Primal,"
the lead-off track, for example, has a Middle Eastern feel, while
"Empire"
is distinctly Oriental. The lengthy
"End of the Beginning"
displays
classical
influences, as does the
Bach
-like
"Serrana."
Becker
's musical imagination is unfettered even if his body is disabled; he stuffs his tunes with different musical ideas, often taking them in surprising directions. In this sense, the most notable track is also the last written for the record,
"Life and Death"
("The title speaks for what was on my mind at the time," he notes), which sounds like a group of musical cues for the soundtrack of an adventure film.
Jason Becker
is enduring a catastrophic fate physically, but he is using it to explore musical passages he might not have otherwise. Originally released on his own label in 1996,
Perspective
was reissued by
Warner Bros.
in 2001. A part of the proceeds goes to the ALS Therapy Development Foundation (
www.als-tdf.org
). ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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