Browse archive 2014

dfbm #65 ~ Looking West

# american primitive, mixtape, solo guitar, psych folk

Welcome to a new two hours long program. It's a compilation of most the music that I discovered over the last months. Many new artists are included as well as some classics. Most of them fit under the umbrella of John Fahey's coined label &qu …

Heaven And Earth Magic ~ Complete Works

2014 # garage pop, psych pop

Anthony Pasquarosa plays a lot of music. He plays different kinds of music. Unamplified acoustic and very loud distorted music. Yet, he is the quietest, at least on the internet. No status updates about ripped strings, just occacionally a post, when …

Gregory Rago ~ Sophie Blanchard Falls to Her Death

2008 # american primitive, psych folk, instrumental

Gregory "Georgie" Rago (born 1959) is a New Jersey mobster and "soldier" in the DeCavalcante crime family. That makes a good opening line, but is wrong. The Gregory Rago I want to introduce to you is a guitarist from Baltimore …

Nathan Golub ~ Ellerbee River Blues

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar

Nathan Golub hails from Durham, NC and he just released a really nice cassette on the new found label GFR Tapes. Golub's fingers wander over the fretboard of his acoustic and electric guitar, like if it's the easiest thing to do. He picke …

Bad Braids ~ The Bootleg / Supreme Parallel / Arrow and Orb

# psych folk

Bad Braids is a Psych Folk project out of Philadelphia and consists mainly of Megan Biscieglia and sometimes friends helping her out to add instruments and sounds. Right now she is on tour through Europe and between Prague and Paris she visited us in …

Divil A' Bit ~ In Deference to the Squeamish

2014 # psych folk

Divil A' Bit are inviting to a really mysterious and ritualistic sounding trip to bewitched places on the green island. Psych folk in the best sense. Drones scratched out of violins (or other stringed instruments), Didgeridoo, flutes and banjo, f …

The Modern Folk ~ American Mountain

2014 # folk, americana

Fellow music blogger Josh Moss aka The Modern Folk of America is also a musician with several projects ranging from garage rock to folk. His new effort is inspired by american folk music where most of the songs are traditionals. Josh is playing every …

Magnus Dewi ~ Earth Plates

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar

Superb American Primitive guitar compositions from France. David Durand aka Magnus Dewi recently opened for Daniel Bachman in Paris, FR* and in July he released his solo debut album, after playing for years in bands! He walks confidently through …

Neden ~ s/t

2014 # electronica, kosmische musik

I get all sorts of submissions. Mostly Hip Hop, Dance, Hard Rock. I guess my e-mail landed in some promo-submission-power-tool. These submissions get a powerful spamfilter treatment in my mailbox. Usually, the "Kosmische" or "Berl …