The very first prize is awarded before one note of the album has sounded: Cuthead' as a pseudonym for the acoustic excursions of an experienced session guitarist (pop acts, film soundtracks) is so uniquely inappropriate that the artist immediately wins a trophy for bad taste. And this is completely unnecessary: his guitar pieces are so peaceful, so melodic, so unspent, so flowing and at the same time so relaxed-exactly recorded, that it is a relief.
Such pure acoustic guitar solo instrumentals are followed by pieces with other instruments. With ,Up And Away' the good synthie-wadding may be chosen a bit lushly - Let Me Have It', on the other hand, is a lively 5/4 number full of whimsical variations, before things get acoustic again with the really beautiful, somewhat bittersweet grooving 'Lovebirds'.
Seriously: Whoever achieves such a technical and compositional level of fingerstyle as a sideline for his own recreation can only be congratulated. Whether the overlong fusion spectacle 'Unitor', which pulls out all production stops, will ever meet with the approval of acoustic guitar fans, may be doubted.
All in all, this squeaky-clean production is, by today's standards, musically and technically on the highest level; it just seems in places like a calling card for further soundtrack commissions. If you skip these parts, you will enjoy a real nice acoustic guitar album.

Michael Lohr

German Magazine -Akustik Gitarre- issue 6/22