Track Listings
| 1. Can't kill a man born to hang |
| 2. Highway to Kuwait |
| 3. Lifeflight |
| 4. Greg's Song |
| 5. Foot race with the devil |
| 6. Sor Etude |
| 7. I'm alright - I'm okay |
| 8. Collect call from the Pyramids at Giza |
| 9. Playing without a net |
Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
I started the guitar at 10, was giving lessons to other people's kids at 14, getting paid to play at 15. But after college, I gave music up for about 18 years. Gave my guitars away. Strange eh? I suppose I gave up the guitar because of what I did and saw. I was a Cop for 10 years, and was in Counter Terrorism for 8 years. I think my soul was tired and the music in me withered. When I found myself alone back in the United States, I was passing a music store one day with an hour to kill, so I went in. I bought my first guitar in 18 years and taught myself to play again.
I discovered that I had somehow built a soundtrack in my head of some things that I had seen, and this CD is an attempt to share it.
Greg's Song is for my friend and partner on the police department who decided to end it all after carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders for just too damn long. I hadn't seen him in years, which doesn't matter. His being gone leaves a hole.
Highway to Kuwait is what I remember of the access highway from the Kuwait City airport to downtown feeling like before the war. I was there alot during the war between Iraq and Iran in the 80's.
Lifeflight is what I think of when I remember holding hurting people while waiting and waiting and waiting for the helicopter that will take them away to safety and treatment.
The Sor Etude is the only track I didn't write. It's an old exercise for the guitar that I think is too beautiful to be just a training problem.
Collect Call from the Pyramids at Giza is the memory of the first time of many that I saw the Great Pyramids in Egypt. Heat, noise, traffic, wind, crazed strangeness, combined with singing Arab cabdrivers.
You've got to be able to describe yourself in the music business. The best way I've come up with in words is to imagine three cars collide. One containing a mountain folk group from Chile, one filled with a bunch of half-assed Flamenco guitar players, and the third car occupied by Pink Floyd. Mix up all the parts and my music may be the result.
I played all the instruments heard on this recording: classical guitar, flamenco guitar, 6 & 12 string acoustic electric guitars, standard electric guitars through Line 6's POD, Roland Gr-30 guitar synthesizer, Electro-Harmonix analog guitar synthesizer, mandolin, and Boss Drum machine.
Product Description
THE PROPERTIES OF MERCY is a unique, instrumental, guitar journey, a soundtrack of life. It displays the range of emotions and melodic possibilities when Spanish style guitar collides with modern electric guitars and synths. The artist uses a variety of instruments and tones to create a sound which can defy classification and offers a wide range of music centered around the outpouring of emotions and worldly experiences through musical texture. This music can either take center stage for your listening attention or perform as quiet background entertainment.
The Properties of Mercy,Warren Buttler
The Properties of Mercy
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The Properties of Mercy
Warren Buttler Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
Meditation
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
General
| New Age
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B00005KJTI Release Date: 2001-05-01 |
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Average customer rating: 
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The Properties of Mercy
Warren Buttler ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
General
| New Age
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
General
| Pop
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B00005853L Release Date: 2001-01-02 |
Tracks:
Album Description
THE PROPERTIES OF MERCY is a unique, instrumental, guitar journey, a soundtrack of life. It displays the range of emotions and melodic possibilities when Spanish style guitar collides with modern electric guitars and synths. The artist uses a variety of instruments and tones to create a sound which can defy classification and offers a wide range of music centered around the outpouring of emotions and worldly experiences through musical texture. This music can either take center stage for your listening attention or perform as quiet background entertainment.Customer Reviews:
Warren Buttler's "The Properties of Mercy".......2001-02-26
The guitar, through its popularity, has probably become the most frequently utilized instrument in the creation of instrumental recordings. And being a guitar player myself, I'm constantly searching for that new and different recording that will not only hold my attention, but will also create inspiration and appreciation through my listening.
"The Properties of Mercy" does that and much more. Using what sounds like a thousand different guitars, Mr. Buttler shapes his music as though it is a sculpture, molding each song into a separate story. It's difficult to assign a "type of music" label to Buttler's CD, but if you like classical, it's there. New age? Yes and no. Jazz? Yes, it's there, too. The flavors graciously include ethnic, Spanish, techno-pop and even a dash of Gypsy.
Several of the tracks are no less than a pure delight to behold with pleasing melodic phrases that could lend themselves easily to a romantic ambience. And others, such as "Can't Kill a Man Born to Hang" and "Highway to Kuwait," paint a picture of intensity almost as if they were soundtracks of life.
"The Properties of Mercy" got my attention from the start and each subsequent playing pulls me in a little more. I wait anxiously for Buttler's next release.
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