Sean Spicer is what amateur guitarist like myself like to call 'a real guitarist'. Where I can put a few chords together in a band setting and muddle through the latest Tim Hughes song, Sean Spicer can make his guitar sing, really sing out with the warm tone that many guitarist would love to even get close to doing.
This guitarist is a true musician, he started playing guitar and taking lessons at the age of nine. He then studied music at Humber College and the Royal Conservatory of Music. If there is any man who knows his way around a guitar... Read MoreSean Spicer is what amateur guitarist like myself like to call 'a real guitarist'. Where I can put a few chords together in a band setting and muddle through the latest Tim Hughes song, Sean Spicer can make his guitar sing, really sing out with the warm tone that many guitarist would love to even get close to doing.
This guitarist is a true musician, he started playing guitar and taking lessons at the age of nine. He then studied music at Humber College and the Royal Conservatory of Music. If there is any man who knows his way around a guitar and knows how to get the best out of it, Sean is your man.
Sean has recently received the 2010 Gospel Music Association (GMA Canada) Jazz/Blues Song of the Year with his song 'No Compromise' that appears on this album. The song is dedicated to the late Keith Green and his Last Days Ministries.
So what does Sean Spicer's debut Olive Tree sound like? In simple terms this album is a bunch of instrumental tracks with Sean showing what he can do with a guitar. Think of the great guitarist Santana and you will start to understand the feeling of what Sean does.
Just listen to some great Jazz piano in the track Diaspora, which leads on to the eerie but The Who-esq Perseverance, and you will hear songs in the same vain as stuff Pink Floyd used to do. Track Now & Forever has a more celtic feel with violins sounding loud throughout.
There is no getting away from it, Sean is a very talented guitarist, who plays the guitar as a form of worship letting atmospheric guitar sounds be his form of worshiping God. With no lyrics sometimes you can miss words as a form of worship when listening to this music. I'm not trying to take anything away from what Sean is doing, but there were times I just missed some vocals. Overall this is an interesting album, with some clever atmospheric guitar work for people to really get their teeth into.
Review by Jono Davies
LTTM Rating 3.5 Out of 5 Stars Standout Tracks Diaspora
Olive Tree
Sephardim
