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- artist:Lee Westwood
- featured artist:Lee Westwood
- release year:2006
- style(s):Folk, World
- country:United Kingdom
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Westwood, Lee
- label:Lee Westwood
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'To Sleep (Farewell Songs)', the debut album by Lee Westwood, released in 2006. Predominantly a solo guitar album, but also featuring Altus flautist Philippe Barnes, and award-winning Australian classical guitarist Gerard Mapstone. The album spans the genres of Folk, Classical, Blues and World Music, using the tuning DADGAD to provoke new and interesting sounds.
Press -
"...an emerging acoustic instrumentalist with blazing technique, ensuring the fingerpicking tradition remains in safe hands."
- Owen Bailey, Guitarist Magazine 2006
"...a brilliantly talented young artist, with a broad palette of styles mixed seamlessly together on this album...anyone with an appreciation for the fusion of ideas should love ‘To Sleep’.”
- Sam Wise, Acoustic Magazine 2006
"...he'll be a name to know in the future if he keeps this up: remember you heard it here first!"
- Guitar & Bass 2007
" A breath of fresh air, indispensable..."
- J.V, Guitarra Total 2007
"Westwood is prodigiously talented and able to create musical landscapes that are abstract, yet always energetic."
- Patrick Regains, Minor 7th 2006
"Thank goodness for Lee Westwood, whose 'To Sleep (Farewell Songs)' will have guitar players giving up in despair and the rest of us delighted. Very rarely is technical wizardry on an instrument used to say something that otherwise could not be said. Lee manages that and it's a pleasure to hear. One man, an acoustic and (apparently) four hundred thousand fingers."
- Giles Duffy, Rocks Magazine 2006
"...an astonishing acoustic guitar talent, Lee Westwood presents his very own approach to music. Lee surely impresses as a guitar player and composer, as well as with his new album 'To Sleep'. Check him out!"
- Henk de Veldhuis, Bridge Guitar Reviews 2006