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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
August 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman