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Israel isn't exactly known as a hotbed for acoustic steel-string
guitar music, but guitarist/instrumentalist and all-around
sonic ambassador Yair
Yona seems determined to change all of that. From
his headquarters in Tel Aviv, Yona is composing some of the
most genre-bending music for solo steel-string heard since
Sandy Bull opened up all the possibilities around the idiom
in the 60's. Remember,
Yona's astonishing debut solo album, is a celebration of the
Takoma Records school coarsely filtered through a multi-hued
prism of sound, resulting in an intelligent collection of
compositions delivered in a fully-formed and strikingly singular
voice. Remember will be released August 24,
2010, issued on CD housed in a lovely post-consumer recycled
cardstock wallet gatefold, as a Ltd Edition 300 LP pressing
with download card and hand-numbered silkscreend jackets,
and MP3.Strange Attractors Resurrection
Series, Vol. 7; re-released in direct collaboration
with Anova Music.
JACK ROSE & GLENN JONES Performing a duet of "Miss May's Place", from
The Things That We Used
to DoDVD. Original Jack Rose composition found
onDr. Ragtime and His Pals.
MY EDUCATION For the past ten years, Austin, TX instrumentalists My
Education have splashed their cinematic sound all
over the great silver screen of the Central Texas sky, painting
their stories using feedback-laden guitars, swirling melodic
viola, rhythm section storm clouds, and flourishes of vibraphone,
bells, strings and horns. Comprised of pieces from the band's
original score for F.W. Murnau's 1927 silent masterpiece
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, My Education
has discovered the perfect forum for which to flex their compositional
muscles, achieving ever-transcendent musical heights in the
process. This original score was perfected over the last two
years through live scoring to the film, performed at sold
out shows throughout the USA. Finding parallels with the timeless
soundtracks-as-albums Popol Vuh composed for a number
of Werner Herzog's films, Sunriseleaps onto celluloid with confident grace, distinguishing
itself as My Education's most diverse and mature release
yet.
Video for "A Man Alone" from Sunrise,
directed by Wiley Wiggins:
SEAN SMITH Sean Smithis Berkeley, CA's preeminent steel-string slinger. Albums
for Isota, the Berkeley Guitar 3-way split (a-la the
Fahey/Kottke/Lang classic platter for Takoma Records)
on Tompkins Square, and as current co-lead guitarist
for Bay Area 'Zep III revivalists / Dead
Oceans recordings artists Citay comprise a portion
of a very impressive resume. Eternal
finds Smith in peak compositional form, coaxing sensory-enhancing
textures from an ensemble of players. His erstwhile acoustic
guitar providing the anchor, Smith provides common links with
Eastern and Middle Eastern folk music, folk-rock, Appalachian
stomp, and Robbie Basho-esque "American Raga"
that bobs and weaves but never ribbons itself away from its
common tether. Especially reminiscent of the tilaka-adorned
works of Sandy Bull and Peter Walker, with nods
towards the Eastern influenced albums of John Fahey
(The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party, Fare Forward
Voyagers), Smith has arrived with an elaborately adorned
and introspective offering. Softly psychedelic, spiritual,
beautiful…Eternal is eternal.
JACK ROSE / GLENN JONES The Things That We Used
to Do is a very special, intimate performance
DVD of Jack Rose and Glenn Jones, each artist
playing solo and together. The footage was shot expressly
for this project in a loft in Brooklyn, NY. The takes are
live, but the performances are not in front of an audience,
but rather in front of the camera, resulting in both a crucial
document and a total celebration of two artists, collaborators,
best of friends whose art serves to illuminate the breadth
of solo guitar, from its roots to where it is today, and how
the tradition is being carried forward on into the future.
Includes a lengthy interview of each player together by Byron
Coley andbonus live footage shot in concert in
Philadelphia, March 2009. A one of a kind, remarkable document
of the two leading lights of solo acoustic steel string guitar
in their prime. Total DVD running time: 2:27:04. The Things That
We Used to Do long-form trailer:
SUBARACHNOID SPACE Eight Bells
is the new stunning album by
SubArachnoid Space, exploring further depths into
acid guitar-saturated leftfield metal. Limited edition 800
LP is housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring astounding original
art by Stephen
Kasner, and comes complete with a download card of
the entire album in MP3 format. CD released by the fine folks
at Crucial Blast.
GLENN JONES The Wire
has named Glenn Jones'Barbecue
Bob in Fishtown as one of the 'Top 50 records
of 2009'! List featured in their annual roundup, Jan 2010
issue. We humbly agree. LISTEN: Download "A
Geranium for Mano-A-Mano" from Barbecue Bob in Fishtown.
JACK ROSE *IN
MEMORIAM TO JACK ROSE - WHOSE WORK BRINGING THE SOLO ACOUSTIC
STEEL STRING TRADITION INTO THE MODERN ERA CANNOT BE OVERSTATED.
A MONSTER OF A TALENT. YOU WILL BE SORELY MISSED. 1971-2009.* News
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