In 1965, Harry Taussig got invited to spend one hour in a studio to record his self-taught style of guitar music, that was influenced by Elizabeth Cotton, John Cage, and Stockhausen. The result was the self-published album Fate Is Only Once. Taussig …
I love field recordings. Recordings of environmental sounds were my photographs. I used to record the sounds of water, nature, and places and embedded them in my own music, like pasting photographs into a photo album. I loved the effect of mild confu …
"Greetings from Amarillo is a musical postcard but also an invitation to look around and spend some time in the audio rendering of the Texas Panhandle."
That's how Hayden Pedigo describes his new album - a mix of cosmic electronica, hints of pop musi …
Contemplate over a new episode of Morning Raga and delve into a mix of acoustic guitar-centered music. Sometimes electrified, solo or as a duo, with 6 or 12 strings.
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’You’re the next guy to inherit the throne, the next Leo Kottke.’ sai …
It got pretty quiet around the New Weird Finland movement from the mid-2000, led by artists like Lau Nau, Kuupuu or Kemialliset Ystävät. For quite some time the most surreal folk was coming out of the Finnish forest and tundra. It was the European …
It's been a while since the last Songs of Wild Nothing mix. I am a bit behind with the music stuff, but I've found a lot of weird old and new music over the last months, so it was easy to compile 33 tracks to a two hour mix. Hopefully you have the ne …
I can’t praise the Tompkins Square compilation “Imaginational Anthem Vol.8” enough. The record collectors Michael Klausman, Brooks Rice and label owner Josh Rosenthal issued a wonderful collection of ultra-rare solo guitar records from the last …
Fresh solo acoustic guitar from Belgium by Jonas Meersmans.
He co-founded the instrumental quartet Codasync1 and has written several soundtracks for short movies in the past.
Monnift I is his debut album and it starts with an innocent music box tune …
After three short, but sweet ep’s, Welsh guitarist Toby Hay releases his first long player on vinyl, the holy grail of all recording formats. With “The Gathering”, Hay offers beautiful, impressionistic guitar compositions, inspired …
