Browse by tag american primitive

Don Bikoff ~ Hallowed Ground

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar

2012 and 2013 was the year where so called American Primitive got back in the focus of media attention. Sure, Fahey is timeless and every now and then, there was a guitarist extraordinaire, but in said years, the Tompkins Square Label, well known for …

Nick Castell ~ The Water Margin

2014 # solo guitar, psych folk, american primitive

Back in 2010 I found Nick Castell's music on bandcamp and was stunned by his variety of styles and his playing skills, because he seemed so very young. But after an interview I made with him, it was clear how he approached music. As an ethnomusic …

Forklong Daruplat ~ s/t

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar, psych folk

Forklong Daruplat emerges from a very active psych scene in Belgium. American Primitive or solo acoustic guitar music from there got some attention in the past - I think of the split 7" by Silvester Anfang and Jack Rose, Wouter Vanhaelemeesch ak …

Matt Sowell
The Dead Man's Rag

2013 # american primitive, solo guitar

I found Matt Sowell's album, a few weeks ago when I researched Jerry Hions album (both are from Philadelphia) and I was kinda deterred by Sowell's excessive self-labeling with the "American Primitive" term in his bandcamp page heade …

Jerry Hionis – Arrakian Circle Dances

2014 # american primitive, folk, solo guitar, acoustic

Philly based solo guitar player Jerry Hionis has been featured last year with his great debut Graveyard Stomps & Funeral Rags which crossed many paths with Dr. Ragtime aka Jack Rose (RIP). Not only in terms of music and presentation, maybe also t …

Gabriel Slavitt – No Skinny Minnie

2014 # solo guitar, american primitive, singer-songwriter, garage rock

Mostly electrified solo guitar tunes by Gabriel Slavitt from Philadelphia who is also working as an artist in the field of mixed media and sculpture. The No Skinny Minnie ep is completely stripped down to a lonely sounding guitar in a room. Nonethele …

Wes Tirey – Home Recordings

2014 # american primitive, lofi, folk, instrumental

Wes Tirey was recently touring Italy and in the meantime the tape label Orange Milk Records released a cassette with Tirey's homerecordings. Orange Milk Records usually releases experimental synthy bleep drone cosmo electronica and with Tirey the …

J.T. Jamieson – home recordings live & demo

2013 # american primitive, folk, solo guitar

American Primitivism and no end. Is it a trend right now? I don't think so. Solo guitar music was always around, just the media attention wasn't as big as it seems to be now. Which is fine if it helps artist to make a living from it or just i …

Lukas Read – Long Live Sam!

2014 # american primitive, country, folk

This is fantastic! I featured Austin, TX based Lukas Read last year, with his great Ramble Man, Ramble album. A fresh cosmic-country-music one-man show... He just released a mini ep, recorded on a mono tape recorder with plain guitar songs and his cr …