CandyRat’s latest YouTube videos are of Antoine Dufour, another A-class fingerstyle guitarist, performing a bunch of songs off of his very new album, Existence:
30 Minutes in London
A Hiding Place for the Moon
Ashes in the Sea
Catching the Light
Into Your Heart
Song for Stephen
Into Your Heart is a deeply haunting tune, especially during the final minute and half, where his rhythmic tapping imitates the beating of a heart. It is as if the song has reached its destination at the beginning of the third minute. As with Rylynn, by the end of the song tears swelled at the back of my eyes. Of course, as a man I suppressed them. But the damage has been done: certain neurons of my brain has been forever possessed by this song. While physical vibrations in the air may fade away, the music never quite does…
