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The Mill Pond - Fahey fanatics for the most part seemed to look the other way during the period right before his death, when he was almost destitute and experimenting with (sad for trads!) electric guitar and noise drone. Of course, beyond fanatics no one even cared about his thirty year history as...

Leo Kottke, City Winery, New York, NY 6/17/09 -

In a dimly lit roomglowing with candles, 63-year-old Leo Kottke walked unassumingly onto thecurtained stage and without saying a word, stood in front of the seatedaudience and began to rapidly pick and strum his six-string. His fingerpickingfilled the entire room as if he had two or three guitarists supporting him....

As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 - Others: John Fahey, Jandek, Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Charalambides Links: Loren Connors - Family Vineyard Morton Feldman once said, Where in life we do everything we can to avoid anxiety, in art we must pursue it. A cursory look at Loren Connors oeuvre reveals a like-minded thought process. Similar to fellow New...

Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain -

Ben Chasny is the artist otherwise known as Six Organs of Admittance, and the guitar is his principle instrument. Here, with Asleep on the Floodplain (his fifth LP for Drag City), he's in a mostly acoustic frame of mind, wielding an unplugged axe that's invariably so close-mic’d that the listener's...

Jandek : Hasselt Saturday -

Calling Houston, Texas based musician Jandek an outsider artist is putting it lightly- he�s the hermetic J.D. Salinger of recorded music. Since 1978, Jandek has been releasing albums of dark, often guttural blues/folk music through Corwood Industries, a mail-order label that seems to be solely in the business of releasing...

Dirty Projectors Acoustic 12'' -

Here you pre-order a limited edition 12'' by Dirty Projectors called Live at Other Music featuring an acoustic set performed at that New York store. It's due September 28, the same day as the expanded edition of last year's Bitte Orca, which includes the acoustic show and...

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