Summer 2016 – everything is heated up – climate, emotions, people. Would jumping into a pool of tears cool us down? I guess we will find out later this year.
In the meantime the band China from Northern California supplies a bitter-sw …
Songs of Wild Nothing is the series for all the weird and wonderful, old and new tunes I come across. Be it old-timey gospel or hillbilly tunes, bedroom pop, psych rock - I'll find a way to stitch them together.
It's starts with an short accapel …
Asturian guitarist, Eduardo Suarez aka Borealis just released his second full length album Loma Aerea on the local label Truco Espárrago and the Germany based Woodland Recordings.
It starts with field recordings from Asturian forests a …
Mysterious 8-bit American Primitivism.
Judging by the cover this could be some midi tracker 8-bit album with retro computer game music. It's not, but wouldn't it be cool if there was a John Fahey 8-bit cover album? Beach Boys, Beatles, Mu …
Dan Goldberg aka The Spookfish is a musician and music curator from New York. As The Spookfish he records all kind of music, from lofi electronica to lofi Fahey covers. As a curator he organizes the Mountain Shows (facebook page) where musicians and …
Jack Wirth is a young guitarist from Woodland, CA. I've featured him on Morning Raga Pt. VII and VIII and thought he's from England, but apparently he is not.
Basically you can give yourself to one hour (over the course of two albums) of …
Before I hit the pause button for some summer holidays, I want to leave this new Morning Raga Mix here.
As always, it's a fine blend of old and new solo guitar music. Traditional tunes, contemporary pieces, more acoustic than electronic …
Philadelphia based, multi-instrumentalist Andy McLeod published a short 3 song ep, that he recorded right after his US mini- tour.
McLeod continues where he stopped with the DFBM release "Forge the Valley". A mix of contemporar …
The label Vin Du Select Qualitite (VDSQ) started in 2009 with their mission to release contemporary solo acoustic guitar music. The curator Steve Rosenthal Lowenthal* doesn't focus necessarily on guitarists out of the Berkley/Takoma school. Alan …
