Extracts

"Oysters"
NOA Music - 2005

"Lone Kent fait partie de cette espèce en voie d'extinction dans le rock qu'on appelle les songwriters..."
Tribu Rock, rubrique Tribu Shop, octobre 2008
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"Mais où donc Lone Kent va-t-il chercher tous ces sons ?"
"... Mais il a aussi le don aussi de nous le faire partager. Pour preuve, ce nouvel album, 'Oysters', troisième 'excursion en solo' comme il l'appelle lui-même, qui nous prouve une fois encore qu'il est un musicien... extra-terrestre. Sa musique ? Des sons à écouter les yeux fermés pour mieux s'en imprégner, des vibrations, des voix de cordes et des voix tout court (c'est vrai que la sienne a un grain à la Chris Rea), des distorsions, des effets en tous genres, 'entre rock atmosthérique et ambient blues', diront les spécialistes."
La Dépêche (site), Bernard Lescure, February 2008
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Granite and Sand
Crammed/Sony - 1993

"… Lone Kent is really off the beaten tracks. Neither rock, nor country, nor blues, nor jazz, he offers an elegant mixture of all these styles…His compositions are as subtle as his fingers are nimble…"
Rock&Folk, Jean-François Vaissière, March 1994

" … Lone Kent belongs to the sound researcher clan: multi instrumentalists catalysing their daily craziness in strange test tubes. Country, fusion ? Ambient rock ? It’ll take a smart one to label the musical ethics of this exceptional guitarist, who writes his staves on the margin of all conventions. Basically calm and soothing, Granite and Sand” is a successful first album, promising, innovative and sensitive, from the beginning to the end…"
Guitares et Claviers, Frédéric Lecomte, May 1994

 

 

The Need to Know
Willing Productions/Scallen Records – 1999

"… ‘The Need to Know’ surprises by its musical eclectics…
Studded with flute, or even bouzoukis, Lone Kent’s music is an incredibly rich universe that keeps on astonishing the listener… Since ‘Granite and sand’, exceptional first album of a gifted multi instrumentalist and brilliantly avant-garde guitarist, Lone Kent was cruelly keeping us waiting. At last, five years later, this atypical musician releases a new album, whose festive climates and harmonic superimpositions will make laymen as happy as fans."
Guitares et Claviers, Frédéric Lecomte, May 1999

"Lone Kent… is a subtle guitarist who worked with Rhys Chatham and Hector Zazou before releasing his own two first albums. Vocally it sounds like a kind of chipped Chris Rea, with solid melodies and straight rhythms, between atmospheric rock and ambient blues… A calming powerful small-scale album."
Télérama, Philippe Barbot, February 1999

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