4am recorded live at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal on the 2010 UK 'Vividly' Tour. To win Pierre Bensusan's signature series Lowden Guitar worth over $8000, please visit www.bensusan-lo... Competition closes July 2011.
I don't know why but this song puts me back to an essence of solitude focusing on my own mortality and the presence of living in the moment. thank you so much Mr. Bensusan
I am so lucky , have found the .mp3 of this composition. I heard it on one Radio station and recorded it, I would listen to it frequently and never forget the emtotion it brought me. Today I remembered it and was so angry at myself that I haven saved it properly, so I could not find it, and it was like this for 5-6 years. Then I started thinking very hard where could I have saved it I knew I had it but I didnt know where to look. THen i tried findinf it on a specific hard drive, where I moved some music from my lap top, and there it was . A net station radio recordings , and indside was 10 untitled songs, With first being 4 am by you Sir Pierre. I cannot thank the Lord enough for allowing me to hear this composition again, I cried my eyes out from joy, this composition is so beautifull and important, art really will save the world.. THank you Pierre Bensusan, for writing this masterpiece thank you for sending this emotion trough music, thank you sir, !
The first sonf of PB's I heard: a live recording at Berkeley (?) ... when his vocals came in I cried. I saw him a few weeks latrer at the Half Moon Putney and told him: He played it dedicating it too. I cried again.
I just found out this was Bensusan's song. How could I have missed these versions all this time? I am familiar with a version by Trapezoid on their Moon Run album. They did a great job of capturing the emotion in this song. The entire album is excellent, but I am very glad to hear Pierre perform this one. It's his after all and no one does it better.
I love all the versions of this piece; pure spirit ! and Pierre plays his music with total union with his instrument ....leaves me speechless, Pierre your music soothes my tormented soul :-)
Fantastic. I had the cassette "Spices", bought 2, and they got lost in a move! Know it was on CBS, will search for it 'til I die. I could listen to his inimitable style forever! Would love to see him in person! Breathtaking. Simply breathtaking!
This is one of my all-time favorite Pierre pieces! Although it has lovely lyrics as the song "La Nuit Des Météores" (written by Pierre's wife Doatea) I love it most as an instrumental. It's not terribly difficult to play but it needs a lot of improvisation to do it justice, and nobody can do that like Pierre.
Very nice. The tune clearly borrows closely from the Celtic traditional tune Sh'beg An Sh'more (The Big and the Little Hill). Many phrases are taken in their entirety. A nice adaptation with variations in Bensusan's inimitable style.
it's outstanding, no doubt! But L'Alchimiste is THE greatest tune of all time. Period. :-) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S1dfg3uAWv4.html
