Yellowstone By Mad Dog Friedman

 

Yellowstone

By

Mad Dog Friedman

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

Mad Dog Friedman is a musician who adores creating music that literally transports the willing listener to the very location of his desired project, on this brand new release called Yellowstone we have a huge vista of possible explorations on offer, and as it is very unlikely that I will ever travel to this glorious place, I can do so vicariously with the medium of this breath taking beauty of an album.

This huge vista I alluded to in the aforementioned paragraph, is an album of no less than 24 incredible offerings for the listener to enjoy, starting with introductory arrangements like September at the Mouth of Chipmunk Creek, a piece which leads us into the flute based narrative of A Gaggle Of Geese, a thoroughly organic manifestation can be found here.

There are many stand out tracks on this album that deserve a mention, such as Geyser Hill, a locational composition that nature abounds and dances with the flute, this can also be said for most of the tracks here, such as the stunning reveries of Bison Rut, I truly never could imagine the power of a Buffalo until I came face to face with one, then the longer form narrative of On the Shores of Peale Island softly takes the listener by the hand and allows them time in a sanctuary of solitude and introspection.

The listener can traverse through a myriad of other short form creations that set the scene of nature’s beauty in such a picturesque and graphic way, I then landed on the composition Wild Snipes and was rooted by the arrangements mesmeric tones, this in my view was a masterful flute performance by the artist, and the natural sounds just set the scene with such sublime ease.

I remember another flute performer in Deuter creating a track called Wind Through The Trees, whilst neither composition are in anyway similar, they both achieve the perfect end result by creating a song redolent of the subject matter, but Mad Dog dares to go one further in manifesting a track with a raging wind, but one that is perfectly balanced by his commanding flute performance, and that is not an easy thing to do.

My Grandfather used to teach me the difference between a Moorhen and a Coot, but I never thought I would see a musical arrangement about such a lively and fun bird, especially one that is gracefully long form at well over 11 minutes in duration, and encapsulating the energy of the bird perfectly, a composition that indeed concludes the album, with the piece A Fleet Of Coots.

Yellowstone by Mad Dog Friedman is an organic truly natural flute based album that gifts its willing listener a vast project of locational compositions and nature based arrangements to simply bathe ones senses in. This style of work takes a lot of dedication and determination to get the right mood and sound, but Mad Dog achieves this with a soft and gentle approach, as he walks in beauty on this new release Yellowstone.