G For Gnome – Storm Clouds Gather (Rhubarb Music)
Well, the storm clouds might well gather, but if this EP is anything to go by, they won’t gather for very long. At a running time of just over 18 minutes you might expect to get a bit wet, but it’s not the time that matters here, it is the intensity, and the storm whipped up by G For Gnome is one of those that saturates, despite the sou’wester and wellington boots.

Although Richard Haswell, aka G For Gnome, (which is a side project from his ‘day’ job, as well as playing in his band, Rhubarb), doesn’t keep it up for long, he does manage to pierce the outer layers, and the inner thoughts, via these three instrumentals. Besides the intensity of these compositions, he also provides the listener with variation and scope to dream a little, although the territory borders on nightmare, so any dreaming might have a razor edge to it. He manages to create three very different ‘storms’ within this limited time scale. What he might conjure up on a longer time platform could be very interesting indeed.
www.richardhaswell.co.uk
Kev A.

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