CD Reviews

This morning I thought  I had heard some of the finest 1980s glam/rock music coming from the speakers of my stereo. But I was totally mistaken; the sounds were not from the 80s, they were from this year and from none other than Perth’s own Graham Greene. His latest album, Leap of Face, was playing, and boy does he have an abundant artillery of musical flair up his sleeves.

The first few songs are straight up hard and straight up loud, with Greene showing off his knack of playing guitar in the way most people know him for. But it’s not all flashback rock ballads on this album, he shows he is much more than a one trick pony when CJ’s Blues comes on. That’s when the in your face rock gives way to something a little more chilled out, downbeat and deep. It was a smart move by Greene to make it the seventh song on the album.  While he shows himself to be a master of the hard music it does, through no fault of his own, start to feel a little bit stale by the end of the sixth song, The Art of War, so the change is almost like a fresh stab of energy and that energy only grows with Fire in Your Liberty, which features the wonderful vocals from his wife, and GTN co-founder, Donna Greene.

Leap of Face brings out a lot in whoever listens to it. It makes them amped, relaxed, happy, somber, all in the space of half an hour. But that’s before the final song of the album, Sahara Moon, comes on. That makes people feel all those things and more in the space of about four minutes as Greene seems to mix all styles he knows all so well in the one song. A fitting finale to a fabulous album.
 
Perth is known for the good music that comes out of it.  Leap of Face is one of the many fine examples of that.

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