Browse archive 2014

Justin Pigott, Peter Bonneman, Crystalline Roses
Split

2009 # american primitive, solo guitar, lofi

This release is mind-blowing for several reasons and I don't know where to begin, laying out some of the facts that I found. Maybe it's enough to mention Fahey as the Godfather of solo acoustic guitar to make you interested in this. It would be en …

William Tyler ~ Blue Ash Montgomery

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar, avantgarde

Funded by a Kickstarter campaign, Lightning Records out of the "desert" of Los Angeles recently releasend the first batch of a quarterly tape edition and fanzine. Their goal is to bring Rock 'n Roll back in peoples life (what ever this …

Least Carpet ~ Back Alley

2014 # psych folk

When I released the first Least Carpet EP digitally in 2010 I was pretty sure that a real physical release and more international attention will follow soon. His Eastern Europe inspired Psych Folk was masterfully executed and it wasn't presumptuo …

Nick Schillace ~ Landscape and People / Box Canyon

2005/2008 # american primitive, solo guitar, folk

With all the press about american primitivism and John Fahey I miss one name the most. It's Nick Schillace. I don't know why he remain unmentioned I can only assume that he was a bit too early releasing his solo guitar work. Also his John Fah …

Sean Proper ~ We are Wounds

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar

Sunshine State Florida is probably one of the least places that comes to mind when you spin some Basho or Fahey records. Proper proved that when he stated in an interview I did with him a year ago: I felt very disconnected from the music …

Daniel Bachman ~ Orange Co. Serenade

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar

The busiest guitar slinger in business right now is Daniel Bachman and after he got picked up by Tompkin Square Records he shot himself into your dad's favorite radio station (yes, WFMU, but I mean NPR) and several times around the world (if worl …

Victor Florence ~ Live @ WVFS 89.7 (6/30/2014)

# singer-songwriter

Victor Florence is kind of a constant here. I didn't know so much about him, but since he kept recording and publishing music it was easy to follow is path. When he started changing his style from heartbroken-college-boy-connor-oberst-acoustic-gu …

dfbm #64 ~ Electric Day

# mixtape, space-rock, indie pop, krautrock, psych pop, psych rock, post-punk, country

Here is another non acoustic guitar program with some jumps between genres and decades. I have to confess that I was playing A Flock of Seagulls a lot lately. It's a perfect eighties flashback, especially with their videos. All the moves and styl …

Daniel Bachman ~ s/t

2014 # american primitive, folk, solo guitar, acoustic guitar

Daniel Bachman is working hard to stay on top of business. Touring the US, recording a bunch of tracks, touring Europe then back to the US and so on. And in the meantime, while slowley the PR machinery is starting for his next new album on Bathetic R …