VA Mississippi Tapes
MRC-008: Wrong Time To Be Right
Post-War Folk Music
MRC-033: It Happend
60's Rock And Roll
Suggestions for other tapes, more info, etc. are welcome
many thanks to the original uploader
2 days ago
Showing posts with label • acoustic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label • acoustic. Show all posts
Michael Yonkers
"It was the period of time when I was recovering from major spine surgery. I had a hospital bed in my apartment, because the surgery had not gone well, and I was in for many months of recovery. I had my main recorder set up next to my bed, so I could record the guitar parts while laying down, or semi sitting. Then I wrote the words (also while in bed). As I was able to get up and around more, I recorded the vocals. I like recording the vocals in the bathroom, because of the live sound." - Michael Yonkers
João Lucas
Fascinating semi-solid conceptions for piano, accordion and electronics (Lucas) and a delightfully evocative cello (Miguel Mira). The soundtrack to Era Uma Coisa Mesmo Muito Abstracta - a choreography by Andresa Soares - Abstract Mechanics is a work of uncomplicated digestibility despite the involvedness of some of its parts. An unambiguously poetic music, either used to highlight a (probably very intriguing) series of dance figures or enjoyed as a musical piece per se. Lucas and Mira explore the instrumental registers with a combination of obsession and scientific curiosity, alternating passages bordering on the romantic side of things (never deprived of surprising factors) with moments of apparent scarcity of rationality permeated by a larger use of improvisation and discordance. But they always manage to fall straight on their feet as one realizes that the tumbles were just picturesque tricks, the couple remaining entirely aware of where the music is going. A passionate yet at the same time light hearted performance, emanating scents of transcendence but also revealing a painstaking care for the sonic details. The fact that this writer has not been able, in about six listens, to compare the material to anything else in recent memory should tell a lot. Perhaps those who recall Joachim Kühn’s playing on Carolyn Carlson’s Dark will find something here that might gratify their taste. Just a faraway association, though.
Blind Cave Salamander
Blind Cave Salamander - Blind Cave Salamander (2007)
Blind Cave Salamander - Troglobite (2009)
Blind Cave Salamander is a project by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo and Paul Beauchamp often backed up by sound designer, producer and engineer, Marco Milanesio and cello player Julia Kent.
An unusual mix of electronica, strings and guitars, drones and field recordings; a collection of finely wrought sounds that at times lean towards hypnotic lullabies and at others towards abstraction. A hybrid of the natural and the synthetic of which, like the Proteus, the pale-skinned, cave-dwelling amphibian that lends its name to the project, Blind Cave Salamander unravel shadowy, nocturnal landscapes
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Lenny Breau
(1997) Cabin Fever / FLAC Pt. 1 Pt. 2 Pt. 3
One of the greatest guitarists to ever live, Lenny Breau spent most of his life in obscurity. Recorded in a cabin in rural Ontario where Breau was detoxing, Cabin Fever was finally released by Randy Bachman of the Guess Who in the late 90s.
Notable stylistic elements include Breau's use of harmonics to create piano like chimes, and playing one part to each hand, rhythm and melody. Breau played guitar from cradle to the grave and few will ever reach his level of mastery again. Enjoy.
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