Paul Metzger
Deliverance
locust103
CD / 180 gram LP
2007-10-23

Minnesota's Paul Metzger is an unsung hero of the unaccompanied string
instrument and a master musician of an instrument of his own invention.

On Deliverance - a real time performance on his overhauled 21 string
banjo - you'll be treated to some of the most deeply satisfying &
impulsive outer cosmos ragadelia you're ever likely to hear. Clocking in
at nearly 60 colossal minutes, Deliverance is 3 tracks of unfiltered
aural transcendence; a hypnotic raga epic that's by turns a slow burning
meditation & an urgent mind / body duel.

Paul's playing may summon up the spirits of Sandy Bull's searching
inventiveness, Billy Faier's out Tacoma sides, J.P. Pickens' tweaked
Americana, Henry Flynt's searing harmonic drones or Big Jim Sullivan's
psychedelic exotica, but at the end of the day, Metzger is no idolater
and we're all a little luckier to have him around to occupy his own
singular post in this post- Fahey world.

Available on CD and limited 180 gram virgin vinyl housed in a stunning gatefold jacket.

praise:

" Metzger plays raga like improvisations on a custom built 21 string banjo.
Like a sitar many of those strings are used for a sympathetic or drone sound
and once the disc works its way into your system you forget that it's a
banjo and the spell of Metzger's beautiful playing will take over. He'll
have you imaging Ravi Shankar sitting on a log cabin porch in the
Appalachians with a jug of moonshine nearby. "Deliverance" consists of three
lengthy tracks in which he sometimes picks and other times bows his banjo,
the result is close to an hour's worth of music that should please lovers of
Shankar, Fahey and the current crop of long guitar improvisations." - Big Takeover