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One can compare him with artists such as Tommy Emmanuel, Adam Palma,
Bryan Lubeck or William Ackerman. At the risk of making a lame
comparison and each comparison becomes lame, if you take it too far.
Just listen to his album at CDBaby to get an impression.
Mind Heart Fingers
(2014) is a solo guitar album. All songs are
composed, arranged and performed by Trevor. The album was produced by
Will Ackerman, Tom Eaton and Trevor Gordon Hall.
After a colorful Kalimba Intro Trevor starts with the romantic
ballad Morning Sidewalk 3.0 performing on Kalimba and acoustic
guitar, where he uses the guitar both as a stringed as well as a
percussion instrument.
The blue hour is the period of twilight each morning and evening when
the sun is a significant distance below the horizon and the residual,
indirect sunlight takes on a predominantly blue hue. With his song
The Blue Hour Trevor captures the atmosphere of this time in
delicate tones running into each other building harmonies. On The
Meeting At the Window he lets the audience much time to recover
impressions from the sounds.
In Almost Spring vibrates much melancholy. Tone is built on
tone. The Shining Barrier is similar in structure to the other
pieces, because the preferred complex structures are like an
impressionist picture gaining meaningfulness only by the overall
impression. Even with his further songs like My Dearest
or Surviving Ordinary Days he plays as if he has all the time in the
world. Very introverted.
His work of Kalimba is extremely elaborate in the complex instrumental
passage on The Discipline of Curiosity or Midnight and
Raining. Turning Ruts Into Grooves starts with a dynamic
groove that evaporates in the course and meanders. Short Story
also contains more mood than melody.
Trevor Gordon Hall has with his mastery of Kalimbatar certainly a unique
claim. However, this form of finger style is very elitist to inspire the
masses.
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