![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Combining expressive phrases with unusual voicings and unpredictable chord changes, his playing often has an almost discursive quality, as though he had transcribed the cadences of speech for his six-stringed instrument. The essence of his sound is his tone: at once liquid and crystalline, and touched by quick, nervous vibrato, like a dewdrop quivering on a blade of grass. Led by his own quixotic impulses, Reilly developed a singular style across dozens of albums released over the following decades. Twenty-six years old when he released his debut, he had been playing guitar for 15 years and studying nearly as long, and after a brief stint crunching power chords in a Manchester band called Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds, he bought a £12 acoustic guitar and unlearned everything that punk had taught him, fashioning an idiosyncratic style out of bits and pieces of jazz, classical, blues, and flamenco. Although it had begun as a full-band effort-contributing two songs on 1978’s A Factory Sample EP, alongside Joy Division and Cabaret Voltaire-the Durutti Column was in effect the solo project of Reilly. ![]()
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