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Daniel Bachman – The Bootleg

Daniel Bachman – The Bootleg

Daniel Bachman visited the Ore Mountains a second time and played a strong set of new material and from his current record "Jesus, I'm A Sinner". Lap-Steel slide madness and Steel-String wizardry. It's been two weeks now that Daniel …
Ryley Walker – The Bootleg

Ryley Walker – The Bootleg

Daniel Bachman and Ryley Walker are on Europe-Tour right now and on their way from Berlin to Czech they stopped here in the South-East of Germany and both played an awesome set and brought some great music into our sleepy little town. Walker hail …
Sam Moss – No Kingdom

Sam Moss – No Kingdom

2013 # americana, folk
Fall time is folk music time. The smell of damp leafes and the first fire in the stove (if you live that prehistoric like me) and the coffee cools down much faster. Sam Moss isn't unknown here. He took some classes at "Takoma School" bu …
Moon – s/t

Moon – s/t

Simple and trippy psych pop with a like for lengthy Krautock-excursions into the countryside and back. It also reminds me in its trippyness on the phantastic Sonic Youth album "Washing Machine". The cassette closes with "Bliss&quot …
Zachary Cale – Blue Rider

Zachary Cale – Blue Rider

On his 4th studio album, Zachary Cale goes back to his roots of him alone with a guitar and words coming out of his mouth. His songs work very well in a full band context like on Noise of Welcome or the older album See-Saw by his band Illuminations o …
Steve Palmer – Fables of the Feral Boys

Steve Palmer – Fables of the Feral Boys

Great EP by Steve Palmer who is heavily influenced by Fahey. He even recorded a whole cover album with the title The Great Mississippi River Oil Slick. But it's not only about syncopation and finger picking wizardry, it's also about audio col …
C.Strøm – Grave Old Tunes

C.Strøm – Grave Old Tunes

Traditional Folk songs recorded by Christian Strøm who's standing on a fjord and is gazing south west over the Atlantic Ocean. I heard Christian Strøm songs the first time on Jeffrey Davison's Shrunken Planet, a great saturd …
Sean Proper – Interview

Sean Proper – Interview

Playing an unelectrified steel-string guitar virtuosically as a solo instrument seems to be the new (Heavy) Metal. There are quite a few Metal Heads turning down the amp and replacing the ax with a wooden guitar. This isn't exactly the case with …
Voidfolk – Dwell

Voidfolk – Dwell

As a teenager in the mid nineties, I grew up with Monster Magnet and what later was called Stoner Rock. My friends listened to this a lot. For me, this whole Stoner scene was just a bunch of stoned Heavy Metal fans with beer bellies. I listened to th …

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