The inside cover of Sculptures shows a photo of Geordie Haley’s red Telecaster with various sillinesses crammed at various angles betwixt the strings - chopsticks, a cigar tube, a chunk of dowelling, and one of those alligator clip thingies you’d find at the office supply store. Ahhhhh… the air of experimentalism in creative expression is always refreshing! Although this is a guitar album, don’t expect shredding virtuosity.  As the album title implies, Geordie Haley uses the guitar - and the recording studio - as tools of aesthetic to create impressionistic snapshots of some alien vibratory realm, somehow elevated from the humdrum of mainstream perception. The range of sound is at once fun and mysterious. While not exactly ground-breaking in concept or performance (what ground has not already been broken in this day and age?), this disc serves as a tasteful and relevant collection for those who appreciate experimental guitar music.

By Sean Luciw
Feb 28, 2009