Monday, April 17, 2023

Al Di Meola - Land of the Midnight Sun. 1976 USA


I've gone on about Di Meola in these pages already. His debut lays out the blueprint for his next two works, arguably his great moment in the midnight sun. As I hinted on Elegant Gypsy, I think Di Meola probably gets too much credit for his guitar virtuosity and too little for his songwriting ability. Like all of Di Meola's albums up through 1982, I owned them on LP while still in high school. For whatever reason, I don't feel compelled to replace these commodity CDs - it just goes with the music and the era. I discuss some of this phenomena on the Elegant Gypsy post as well.


Ownership: CD: Columbia.


1983; 2014; 11/2/19; 2/15/23 (CD 4.4); 4/17/23 (new entry)


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