NICK FLETCHER

The Cloud Of Unknowing NICKFLETCHERGUITARMUSIC.COM

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Compelling second voyage by the Hackett-approved guitarist. Nick Fletcher’s best known as the guitarist for John Hackett, whose brother Steve has described as “probably the best jazz rock guitarist in the country, with a classical guitar technique to boot”. The follow-up to Fletcher’s 2021 debut Cycles Of Behaviour, The Cloud Of Unknowing shares its name with a written work of Christian mysticism, and is billed as a spiritual “voyage of our inner selves to take us from darkness to light”. Lifesigns/Iona member Dave Bainbridge is on keyboards here, with former Earthworks/Steeleye Span bassist Tim Harries in the band too. Cue some fleet-fingered instrumentals that broach sub-Holdsworth fusion (Out Of The Maelstrom) and get metal-heavy at times (Dance Of The Hydra). The nine-minute title track and 10-minute closer, The Paradox, feature…

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