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Jakub Šimanský - Face to Face Against American Primitivism in Eastern Europe vol. 2

Jakub Šimanský
Face to Face Against American Primitivism in Eastern Europe vol. 2

A new album of homerecordings by Czech fingerstyle guitarist Jakub Šimanský is finally available online after a CD only release via the Czech Full Moon Forum magazine . In this new wave (already post Daniel Bachman) of American primitive guitarists …
Toby Hay - New Music for the 12 String Guitar

Toby Hay
New Music for the 12 String Guitar

Welsh guitarist Toby Hay goes back to his roots and recorded an album of just him and his custom 12-string guitar. For the last years, Hay was touring and recording with additional musicians, widening his musical spectrum and escaping from the limits …
Regular Expression - Kasuga Suite

Regular Expression
Kasuga Suite

Regular Expression is Isaac Vallentin from Canada, but also this string of characters. /([A-G](#|b)?)(\(?(M|maj|major|m|min|minor|dim|sus|dom|aug)?(\+|-|add)?\d*\)?)(\/([A-G](#|b)?))?/g 1/2 I like both. Since this isn't a programming blog I want to …
Joost Dijkema - Time Thief

Joost Dijkema
Time Thief

If you are of the age were your parents put up records with songs and fairy tales to entertain you, then the record cover could remind you on one of those children records. If you flip the cover and check the back, you could easily mistake that hands …
dfbm #105 - Morning Raga Pt. 20

Mixtape
dfbm #105 - Morning Raga Pt. 20

Time for a new edition of the Morning Raga, the mix with focus on american primitivism and solo guitar instrumentals. These are tracks that are in this playlist forever and I'm happy to finally put them out and I already started a new one. There is a …
dfbm #104 - Morning Raga Pt. 19

Mixtape
dfbm #104 - Morning Raga Pt. 19

Welcome to another installment of the Morning Ragas series. This "Summer Morning Ragas" are carefully selected from a 80 gigabyte stack of new music that I collected over the last months. As always you can stream it via mixcloud or download a good ol …
Alex Archibald - Cat Got Tongue

Alex Archibald
Cat Got Tongue

Too much good music, not enough time, but here I pull out this record by Alex Archibald who released quite a few albums over the last few years. They all seem to have flown a bit under the radar of "American Primitive Weekly" and even this little blo …
Louis Alberry - Louis Alberry

Louis Alberry
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A fine solo acoustic guitar album from the British Isles by Louis Alberry. I always love it when musicians use field recordings to reference a place they try to describe with their music. Enjoy some guitar instrumentals introduced by the sound of wat …
Šimanský Niesner - Tance neznámé

Šimanský Niesner
Tance neznámé

American primitivism in Eastern Europe? One of the earliest connection might be the Dobro guitar, known a brand that built acoustic guitars with a metal resonator to amplify the sounds. The name originated in 1928 when the Dopyera brothers, John an …

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