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February 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gat This: My Top 10 ‘Guitar’ Albums

A while ago I described something/someone as “guitar music” and was chortled at from all directions; there’s no such thing as guitar music. This is not a genre. This is no way to explain or define music. Andres Segovia and Derek Bailey and Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt and Eddie Van Halen have all made amazing music by approaching the same instrument (or versions of […]
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November 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Revisiting The Glass Bead Game: James Blackshaw’s Finest

The guy’s name is James Blackshaw. And I had never heard of him. He’s London-based, he’d been alive for less than 30 years and he plays acoustic 12-string guitar and piano. The album that first fascinated me is The Glass Bead Game. I then found out that it is (at least) his eighth album. I’ve […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Diary, Folk, Instrumental, James Blackshaw, James Blackshaw’s Finest, Neil Young, Ralph Towner, Revisiting The Glass Bead Game, Revisiting The Glass Bead Game: James Blackshaw’s Finest\, Roy Harper, Stormcock, The Glass Bead Game ·

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August 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

James Blackshaw: Fantomas – Le Faux Magistrat

James Blackshaw Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Tompkins Square Over the last decade British guitarist/pianist James Blackshaw has quietly dazzled – cutting the usual John Fahey/Peter Walker guitar shapes and always with a deeply filmic sensibility, the yearn, the sorrow, it drips from the strings and drizzles down off the keys; nostalgia is framed as gorgeous […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat, James Blackshaw, Live Score, Lubomyr Melnyk, Silent Film ·

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July 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Eye of Time: Acoustic

The Eye of Time Acoustic Denovali Records The Eye of Time is the solo-project moniker for French musician, Marc Euvrie. Acoustic is his second album (following on from 2012’s self-titled debut). Euvrie is known for his work across dark ambient, post-electronic, metal and hardcore – but, given his classical training there are, ahem, several strings […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, James Blackshaw, Marc Euvrie, The Eye of Time ·

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May 30, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Watter: This World

Watter This World Temporary Residence Now here is a trio! Multi-instrumentalist/producer Tyler Trotter teams with Grails’ Zak Riles and Britt Walford (Evergreen, Slint) to create Watter – a mix of sludgy metal-hinting post-rock erupting slowly, surely from pastoral folk-hues. Don’t believe me? Check out opening track, Rustic Fog from their debut six-tracker, This World. Over […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Britt Walford, Grails, James Blackshaw, Pink Floyd, Slint, This World, Tyler Trotter, Watter, Zak Riles ·

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January 22, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

James Blackshaw & Lubomyr Melnyk: The Watchers

James Blackshaw & Lubomyr Melnyk The Watchers Important Records I came to this a fan of James Blackshaw and left a fan of Lubomyr Melnyk – so that’s a nice way for this duo album to play out. I’ve loved Blackshaw’s playing for the best part of a decade now, finding any/all of his albums […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Guitar, James Blackshaw, Lubomyr Melnyk, Michael Nyman, Piano, The Watchers ·

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January 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

William Tyler: Impossible Truth

William Tyler Impossible Truth Merge Records William Tyler has already shown his gifts as a guitar player for hire (Will Oldham, Kurt Wagner, Silver Jews, Candi Staton) and with his impressive if slightly hesitant solo debut, Behold The Spirit. That album is still worth hearing – and having – but it’s his latest, Impossible Truth […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Chris Forsyth, Guitar, Hejira, Impossible Truth, Instrumental, James Blackshaw, John Fahey, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Solo Guitar, Steve Gunn, William Tyler ·

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August 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

James Blackshaw: Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death

James Blackshaw Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death Important Records It’s hard to pick a favourite James Blackshaw album – beyond the one you’re listening to at that time. And so it is with his latest, Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death (billed as an EP but at 40 minutes it’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, All Is Falling, Folk, Guitar, James Blackshaw, Love Is The Plan, The Glass Bead Game, The Plan Is Death ·

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