John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) album flac

Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) (or simply, Fare Forward Voyagers) is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1973. It contains three songs, one comprising a complete side of the original LP. Following the fulfillment of his two-album contract with Reprise Records and lackluster sales, Fahey was released from Reprise and went back to recording for his own Takoma label.

Nailed as John Fahey’s ‘non-Christian religious album’, where he ‘found’ Eastern religion and kick-started the New Age movement, Fahey said, in 1990, that it was his greatest guitar record. Considering the often-puzzling self-mythologizing that accompanied earlier albums, Fahey’s sleeve dedication to my guru, Swami Satchidananda and booklet extolling the virtues of Yogaville West, a growing spiritual community in the beautiful mountains of Lake County, Northern California were shockingly untypical. Now out of time and Fahey’s chaotic career path, Fare Forward Voyagers can stand as another monument to Fahey’s genius at work.

This is plausible considering Fahey's personal involvements at the time, but to me it doesn't have anything like the appeal of a good raga. The music here doesn't make for consistently interesting listening; it has its moments, for sure, but there is also an awful lot of what sounds to me like aimless, meandering and, frankly, pretty tedious noodling.

Not so for Fahey, who didn't strike most of his fans as the type who would want to have a guru, anyway. Perhaps this is his album that is most influenced by Indian classical music, judging from some of the tunings and scales used.

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