Browse by tag american primitive

Mixtape
dfbm #106 - Morning Raga Pt. 21

2020 # mixtape, american primitive

Let's start 2020 with a round-up of another two hours of American primitive/solo acoustic guitar gems that I accumulated over the last months. TL;DR I couldn't help but start with Jakub Šimanský and a track from his second installment of Face to Fa …

Toby Hay
New Music for the 12 String Guitar

2019 # american primitive, solo guitar

Welsh guitarist Toby Hay goes back to his roots and recorded an album of just him and his custom 12-string guitar. For the last years, Hay was touring and recording with additional musicians, widening his musical spectrum and escaping from the limits …

Regular Expression
Kasuga Suite

2019 # american primitive, solo guitar

Regular Expression is Isaac Vallentin from Canada, but also this string of characters. /([A-G](#|b)?)(\(?(M|maj|major|m|min|minor|dim|sus|dom|aug)?(\+|-|add)?\d*\)?)(\/([A-G](#|b)?))?/g 1/2 I like both. Since this isn't a programming blog I want to …

Joost Dijkema
Time Thief

2019 # american primitive, folk

If you are of the age were your parents put up records with songs and fairy tales to entertain you, then the record cover could remind you on one of those children records. If you flip the cover and check the back, you could easily mistake that hands …

Mixtape
dfbm #105 - Morning Raga Pt. 20

2019 # american primitive, mixtape

Time for a new edition of the Morning Raga, the mix with focus on american primitivism and solo guitar instrumentals. These are tracks that are in this playlist forever and I'm happy to finally put them out and I already started a new one. There is a …

Mixtape
dfbm #104 - Morning Raga Pt. 19

2019 # mixtape, american primitive

Welcome to another installment of the Morning Ragas series. This "Summer Morning Ragas" are carefully selected from a 80 gigabyte stack of new music that I collected over the last months. As always you can stream it via mixcloud or download a good ol …

Louis Alberry
s/t

2019 # american primitive, solo guitar

A fine solo acoustic guitar album from the British Isles by Louis Alberry. I always love it when musicians use field recordings to reference a place they try to describe with their music. Enjoy some guitar instrumentals introduced by the sound of wat …

Devin Frank
Evening's Fantasia

2018 # psych folk, american primitive

Devin Frank hails from the Midwestern United States, Champaign-Urbana, IL, a town known for its University where the Netscape browser was developed and sound-artist Maryanne Amacher did graduate work in acoustics and computer science. That's all I kn …

Des Moines
Like Freshly Mown Grass

2018 # singer-songwriter, american primitive

"Like Freshly Mown Grass" by Italian singer-songwriter Simone Romei aka Des Moines is one of my favorite records in 2018. A wonderful album, filled with the most beautiful and saddest folk songs and superb solo acoustic guitar instrumentals. The whol …