British guitarist Andy Cartwright, also known as Seabuckthorn just released an new album on the American label Lost Tribe Sound from Arizona.
Looks like the waves of previous album They Haunted Most Thickly washed him over the Atlantic ocean in into …
One of my favorite releases this year is Tompkins Square Imaginational Anthem Vol. 8 – The Private Press3. Compiled by record collectors Michael Klausman and Brooks Rice, the 8th installment presents rare and almost never heard before solo guit …
Italy turns out as treasure trove of wonderful solo guitar music.
A few days ago a friend of mine sent me an album to check out. For some reason I thought it was his recordings and he was asking what I my opinion was.
I told him that I thought it had …
This is a relatively unknown fingerstyle solo guitar album from the early eighties, out of Italy.
Enrico Marcandalli’s music shifts between classical guitar, world music, bits of blues and jazz. I have to admit, this album didn't stroke a chord in …
This new edition of Morning Raga is standing in the shadow of some really exciting releases that are coming up on the horizon. Let’s walk torwards them:
(Go South for tracklist and download)
Large chunks of Jack Rose’s back catalogue wi …
During the last months I’ve had the pleasure to spend some time with Egle 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 emotions, the …
Till today, the 1986 deceased guitarist Robbie Basho is an enigma. He died by an accident after he was getting worked on by his chiropractor. Basho left a large catalogue of music and a mystery around his person. For a long time he was forgotten. Onl …
And welcome to a new Morning Raga edition. Two hours of solo acoustic guitar music, often referred to as American Primitive, like John Fahey called it. It still amazes me that Fahey influenced generations of musicians till today. And it's not onl …
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 …
