Browse archive 2014

Forklong Daruplat ~ s/t

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar, psych folk

Forklong Daruplat emerges from a very active psych scene in Belgium. American Primitive or solo acoustic guitar music from there got some attention in the past - I think of the split 7" by Silvester Anfang and Jack Rose, Wouter Vanhaelemeesch ak …

Joplin Rice
Spine Adagio Part II & The Prince

2014 # lofi, bedroom folk

Joplin sent me his music a while ago and I just left it buried under a pile boring submissions. When I cleaned them out I wasn't sure if I should give it a listen. As I mentioned before, it's a thin line to put yourself into the same line as …

Matt Sowell
The Dead Man's Rag

2013 # american primitive, solo guitar

I found Matt Sowell's album, a few weeks ago when I researched Jerry Hions album (both are from Philadelphia) and I was kinda deterred by Sowell's excessive self-labeling with the "American Primitive" term in his bandcamp page heade …

Jerry Hionis – Arrakian Circle Dances

2014 # american primitive, folk, solo guitar, acoustic

Philly based solo guitar player Jerry Hionis has been featured last year with his great debut Graveyard Stomps & Funeral Rags which crossed many paths with Dr. Ragtime aka Jack Rose (RIP). Not only in terms of music and presentation, maybe also t …

Gabriel Slavitt – No Skinny Minnie

2014 # solo guitar, american primitive, singer-songwriter, garage rock

Mostly electrified solo guitar tunes by Gabriel Slavitt from Philadelphia who is also working as an artist in the field of mixed media and sculpture. The No Skinny Minnie ep is completely stripped down to a lonely sounding guitar in a room. Nonethele …

Folklore Tapes – BIRDomenlore

2013 # avantgarde, psych folk, electronic, ambient, field recording, ritual

Folklore Tapes is a music, art and research project from Great Britain that leaves me back with many questions that I don't want to get answered. There is a mystery around them or him (the blog is connected with the name David Chatton Barker …

Wes Tirey – Home Recordings

2014 # american primitive, lofi, folk, instrumental

Wes Tirey was recently touring Italy and in the meantime the tape label Orange Milk Records released a cassette with Tirey's homerecordings. Orange Milk Records usually releases experimental synthy bleep drone cosmo electronica and with Tirey the …

J.T. Jamieson – home recordings live & demo

2013 # american primitive, folk, solo guitar

American Primitivism and no end. Is it a trend right now? I don't think so. Solo guitar music was always around, just the media attention wasn't as big as it seems to be now. Which is fine if it helps artist to make a living from it or just i …

Lukas Read – Long Live Sam!

2014 # american primitive, country, folk

This is fantastic! I featured Austin, TX based Lukas Read last year, with his great Ramble Man, Ramble album. A fresh cosmic-country-music one-man show... He just released a mini ep, recorded on a mono tape recorder with plain guitar songs and his cr …