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Since the release of Six Organs of Admittance's selftitled debut in 1998, Ben Chasny has played pure guitar within individual songs, but For Octavio Paz is his first full record to explore the guitar inside and out, solo and over-dubbed, steel and nylon string (in fact, For Octavio Paz is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar). What really sets Chasny apart from the other modern Fahey worshipers is that Chasny's pantheon is willing to accept a wider array of other guitarists into the lexicon - Peter Walker or Richard Youngs, for example - not to mention the fact that he can stand the sound of a Stratocaster.
This is the definitive guitar record from Six Organs of Admittance. Originally released in a vinyl-only limited edition by Time-Lag at the end of 2003, For Octavio Paz sold out instantaneously. It was decided that the material is just too strong to belong to so few.
'when Cash released American Recordings in 1994, he repeatedly stated in interviews that he’d wanted to release stripped-down music since the early 1970’s, but couldn’t get the label to go along. He recorded it anyway for his own pleasure, and this year, we got to hear those performances for the first time. To hear Cash while his voice was still in its prime, completely unadorned and accompanied only by guitar on most tracks, is a reminder of the timeless talent that made him an icon. You’ll learn more about the man from a few of these tracks than you ever could from watching Walk the Line' country universe. 'a super limited and insanely packaged triple cd-r, highlighting, well, just like the title says, the Birth Of A New Rural Europe, a sonic world of free noise, free folk and abstract ambience. Three full length discs, one from each band, the Reggaee, Sawaadyja and Valerio Cosi.French free rock outfit The Reggaee offer up 52 minutes of clattery, rambling, drift, harmonicas wheeze, nestled in a soundscape of field recordings and distant percussion like the chirping of crickets, doomy folk with detuned guitars and ghostly vocals, reverb drenched tribal freakouts, dreamy dreary mumbly ambience, buzzing steel string serenades and every stop in between.
Sawaadyja, aka Danish sound maker Mikkel Andersen, contributes a similarly varied disc, starting off with huge thick washes of distorted guitars and buried psychedelic melodies, like a more lo-fi Sunroof!, and quickly drifting into gentle forest folk, with simple childlike melodies over spare tribal drumming, dreamy Appalachian style steel string fingerpicking, a bit of raga like buzz with snake charmer melodies and some spacious abstract shimmer. The final installment comes from Italian sound artist Valerio Cosi, whose disc is maybe the droniest and dreamiest of the bunch. The opening and closing tracks are lengthy slow moving near static shimmers, bookending track two, a nearly half hour long festive percussive free form sonic ritual. Fluttering flutes, clattering pots and pans percussion, buzzing kazoo melodies, thick reverb, like being lost in some bazaar in the center of some foreign city. 'Follow-up to the first volume of this on-going series that joins the dots between an earlier generation of American Primitive guitarists and contemporary intuitive sound-as-thought players. Once again Jack Rose is featured (with an absolutely gorgeous 6 string re-think of 'Cross The North Fork 2') but every other player puts in a first-time appearance on this volume. The inclusion of Christina Carter is a particularly inspired move and one that speaks of the liberated range of the series in general and her track is a beauty, a stubby acoustic guitar miniature.
Nice cover snap too. Other tracks include a particularly mesmeric recording from UK guitarist James Blackshaw and contributions from Peter Lang, Jesse Sparhawk, Michael Chapman, Sean Smith, Fred Gerlach, Billy Faier, Sharron Kraus, Robbie Basho. Another rich, far-sighted assortment from this great label' volcanic tongue. Dead sue.
wooden wand and the sky high band02. What we stole from the fire. valerie webb & paul labrecque03.04. I walk alone.
valerio cosi05.06. Floating down the mississippi. corsican paintbrush07. Take care o pilgrim!.
inch-time08.09.10.11.12. Field on water. bird show13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20.21.22.23.
Worn. boots, c.c., snake & remus27. Hoboland. valerio cosi28.29.30.31.32.
Conductor 71. fujiya & miyagi33.34.
Bird in paradise. edison woods35. Blessing force. akron/family36.
Technology. gareth dickson37.38.39. Az vey dem tatn. black ox orchestar40. Blue werewolf with rainbow eyes. the golden oaks41.42.
Following the fox. dana hilliot43.
Gibraltar, my fall - flying canyon44. Heavenfallen. goldmund45. Katie cruel.
bert jansch (con beth orton)46.47. All of the little forest animals. novemthree48.49. Little alili. auto da fe50. Heji. the hidden cameras51.
Birth of the ghoul. dream/aktion unit52. River and rapids. arborea53.54.
Guilty prayers, pointless ends. david kitt55.56. One spring morning. akron/family57.
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Reforestation. svalastog58.59.60.61. Crickets and sparkles.
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cursillistas62.63. Down to summer. flying canyon64. Lightning bolt of compassion. akron/family65.
Making love in lhasa. valerio cosi66. Taken in. red favorite67. Leaving a mark. the singleman affair70. Firewater.
alasdair roberts71. Bongo song. zongamin72.73. A-full clip. martin buttrich74. Headlights. triosk75.
Drive by shooting. botox76.
At les. trickski77. Living. excepter78. The green blossoms.
the green blossoms79. Over and over - hot chip80.81. A lean and tortured heart.
paul flaherty & chris corsano82. Dim. the zoo wheel83. Kokoro. mia doi todd84. House carpenter. faun fables85.86.
circle87.88.89.90.and you? Whether you’re young or old, this is a perfect John Fahey comp, chronicling his final, fruitful years.
Playing with versatility and a fierce imagination, Fahey expanded the boundaries of the guitar, and his contribution to American music is immense. Here is his trademark American Primitive sound at its most harrowing and resolute. Featuring Skip James-influenced vignettes, deep-sea string bendings, sonic collages, oaken reverberations, and lengthy, impressionistic suites, these recordings, made between 1996 and 1998, comprise a major portion of Fahey’s canon. Undiluted, uncompromised, starkly honest, pure of vision and innovative. The 2XCD and 4XLP sets include over two hours of music, a 64-page book (CD), 12-page libretto (LP), new essays by Byron Coley, David Fricke, and David Grubbs, an interview with and original text by Fahey, plus previously unreleased photos'.