Today, Jan Mörgenson from Metz, France sent me an email, written in German, telling me about his upcoming record and it turns out he is originally from Denmark and is playing the steel string guitar in the always-appreciated style of Mr. Fahey …
Matt Sowell is an american primitive style guitar player from Minneapolis, with a strong preference for the lap steel/slide guitar.
First I thought Matt released his newest material on new years eve as a free/pay what you like download, but the t …
Thanks to the Internet, for many of us the world of music became so much bigger. We finally didn't need to know some special record collector who had all these rare treasures and who taped them for us. No need to order records their description i …
2015 seems to be the year of Robbie Basho (after 2014 was more of a Fahey year). The documentary is finally out and so many great Basho reissues and new music, inspired by Basho's exceptional work, got released.
One of them is Richard Osborn, …
Asheville based guitarist Tashi Dorji seemed to come out of nowhere with his vinyl debut on Ben Chasny’s own Hermit Hut imprint, which brought him quite some attention. But Dorji releases date back to 2009 with Solo Improvisations as his actual …
Yadayn is a musician from Belgium with the noble name Gowaart Van Den Bossche. He released the concept album Vloed in 2014, which was the an amalgamation of fingerstyle guitar and ambient textures.
Unlike Vloed, Pendel is more a collection of ide …
The new album by young British guitar virtuoso Jim Ghedi is a great acoustic journey, not only through Belgium, his home for six months by choice, but also through the hills and meadows of the British Isles and where else his feet or imagination brou …
A lot is happening around Robbie Basho lately. The documentary Voice of the Eagle just got screened on the Raindance Festival. Steffen Basho-Junghans found acquired[1] Robbie Basho's missing 12-string guitar that got discovered during the productio …
James Tweeddale from Fredericksburg, VA offers with Weird World Rolls On a nice and solid solo guitar album with some detours in rural banjo picking, lapsteel slide guitar and a field recording from his or someone else backyard.
It's fair to …
