Short solo guitar miniatures by Alex Archibald from Vancouver, BC.
A short detour into experimental areas with Drunken Transition and into banjo land with Make Horse. The obligatory and very nice slide/lap steel piece comes in earthy lofi fashio …
This is the first EP of fingerstyle guitarist Andy McLeod from Philadelphia, PA.
Inspired by Jack Rose, Pelt, Fahey, Delta Blues and rural Chester County, McLeod taught himself how to finger pick the guitar in open tunings and play the banjo in c …
Back to guitar business. Scottish guitarist Scott William Urquhart sent me his EP of lovely original solo guitar pieces.
It starts pretty strong with a playful, uplifting tune, the title track, that alternates with a nice droning part.
The second so …
Some months ago I stumbled upon Sarah Louise's bandcamp and found her guitar work on "Field Guide" quite excellent. It was like a direct translation of the region she comes from. Shortly after that I found out that these tracks were …
Syncopation, Oscillation, Resonation, Modulation, Meditation.
Finally a new two hours program of solo guitar and solo synthesizer and bird songs.
It's been a while that I made a "mixtape". So much great music came out lately and so mu …
Since I started this years postings with somehow releated musical concepts I will continue and connect the new Jerry Hionis album to the previous posted Rag Lore Demos Blue For al-Watawit of Yashkur. Jerry's connection to the arab world is …
Welsh fingerstyle guitarist Toby Hay crossed my internet browsing paths last year, but it didn't struck a chord with me back in those days. He's a classical guitar trained musician and so his technique is great, but the music was sounding ver …
Beatified is the new project name of Mike Garrett, the founder of American Primitive Records. Maybe you've never heard of either one. American Primitive Records is a tiny label with a big name. I think they are working since years on releasing th …
Welcome to a new two hours long program. It's a compilation of most the music that I discovered over the last months. Many new artists are included as well as some classics. Most of them fit under the umbrella of John Fahey's coined label &qu …