Unspoken by Rich Stein

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Modern Folk | Instrumental Rock

12 tracks | 42 minutes

Released May 2003
on Clearsteer Music

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Compositionally strong and diverse instrumental CD with emphasis on acoustic guitar.

Editorial review

When one thinks of instrumental rock guitar, a variety of styles come to mind. One is fingerpicker music -- that is, acoustic folk-rock guitarists like Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Peter Lang, Michael Gulezian, Stefan Grossman, and Robbie Basho. Another is the Steve Vai/Joe Satriani/Randy Coven school of electric hard rock shredders -- flamboyant, ostentatious, high-voltage axemen with a hell-bent-for-chops virtuosity. And there is also '60s surf guitar. So where does guitar-playing instrumentalist Rich Stein fit in? Actually, Unspoken cannot really be lumped in with any of those three guitar schools. The guitar playing that Stein offers on this CD is neither surf rock nor hard rock, and even though one hears some of that Fahey/Kottke/Lang influence in his folk-rock approach, Stein is not a true picker, either. Stein moves back and forth between acoustic and electric guitar on this CD, and a real picker would not be playing so much electric guitar -- the acoustic guitar is the instrument that makes authentic picker music what it is. So when all is said and done, Unspoken manages to bring something that is fairly fresh-sounding to instrumental folk-rock guitar music -- something that is picker-influenced but is not true state-of-the-art picker music, either (certainly not if one is an acoustic purist when it comes to that style). Yes, people like Fahey, Kottke, Lang, and Basho have had a positive impact on Stein's playing -- it is obvious that he is well aware of their contributions, but at the same time, anyone who expects Unspoken to sound like a carbon copy of a Fahey or Lang album is bound to be disappointed. The bottom line is that Stein is very much his own man, and that spirit of individualism serves him well on this enjoyable disc. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

I was born in Pittsburgh on an uncommonly warm night in April , 1962. By all family accounts I screamed so uncontrollably when they brought me home that I turned a wonderful shade of purple. I apparently regained my composure shortly thereafter and settled into my role as the youngest of three. By the time the family moved to Detroit in 1967, I had worn the grooves off my brother's Beatles records and my dad's classical 78's, planting the seeds for the eclectic mixture of styles that is my "home turf."

I started violin lessons at age seven, but when I wasn't practicing "Lightly Row" I was back at my brother's record collection, getting a good listen to Grand Funk Railroad, Jimi Hendrix, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer before he got home from junior high. My brother retaliated by making me desecrate my violin with a microphone in an attempt to sound similar to Jean-Luc Ponty's tone on the Frank Zappa song "Fifty-Fifty." The feedback still rings in my subconscious.