Browse by tag american primitive

Egle Sommacal
Interview

2018 # interview, american primitive, italy

During the last months I’ve had the pleasure to spend some time with Egle Sommacal and there are some thoughts I can’t get out of my head since I met him. The subtractive attitude that let you catch the purest and more abstract perception of emot …

Matteo Fiorini
Le Grand électrificateur des âmes

2016 # american primitive, solo guitar, field recording

Very interesting guitar music from Italy again. The setting Matteo Fiorini has chosen to record his debut, is a former church with a beautiful natural reverb. He went there to let his guitar tell stories. Stories about Le grand électrificateur, a mo …

Mark Fosson
Solo Guitar

2017 # american primitive, solo guitar

Digging in the Dust, the reissued demo tapes by Mark Fosson that he sent to Takoma Records in the late 70s, was one of the first records of a rediscovered American Primitive guitarists I've ever heard. Sure, there was Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, but …

dfbm #97
Morning Raga Pt. 16

2017 # american primitive, mixtape

All strings considered. A new mix with most recent and almost forgotten solo acoustic and electric guitar work. tl;dr Tim Pilcher & Monica Lord released their debut on the label Dismal Niche a label from Missouri who also released a new Scott Tum …

Kevin Henry
Last Thoughts

2017 # american primitive, folk

Kevin Henry's album Last Thoughts is the soundtrack to a documentary and road movie he produced in 2006. In this award-winning documentary, filmmaker Kevin Henry retraces the travels of his grandfather Rob, a former rail-riding hobo who tape-record …

Rick Deitrick
Gentle Wilderness + River Sun River Moon

1978 # american primitive, private press, folk, solo guitar

Tompkins Square just reissued another gem from the treasure trove of their Imaginational Anthem Vol. 8 compilation, while the next one1 is already in the pipes. On that compilation, record collector Michael Klausman and Brooks Rice shared the most ob …

Youngkvist
Forms

2013 # american primitive, folk, field recording

I love field recordings. Recordings of environmental sounds were my photographs. I used to record the sounds of water, nature, and places and embedded them in my own music, like pasting photographs into a photo album. I loved the effect of mild confu …

Hayden Pedigo
Greetings from Amarillo

2017 # interview, american primitive, ambient

"Greetings from Amarillo is a musical postcard but also an invitation to look around and spend some time in the audio rendering of the Texas Panhandle." That's how Hayden Pedigo describes his new album - a mix of cosmic electronica, hints of pop musi …

dfbm #95
Morning Raga Pt. 15

2017 # mixtape, american primitive

Contemplate over a new episode of Morning Raga and delve into a mix of acoustic guitar-centered music. Sometimes electrified, solo or as a duo, with 6 or 12 strings. Playlist ’You’re the next guy to inherit the throne, the next Leo Kottke.’ sai …