Matt Lajoie - The Accidental Eye

Mind-blowing ambient folk guitar experiments by Matt Lajoie. 2017 tape on Early Music.

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Sarah Hughes, Jon Collin ‎– Washington DC, 11 April 2019

Wailing, mourning psychedelic ambient jazz folk by Jon Collin - the true successor of early-Pink-Floyd David Gilmour - and alto saxophonist Sarah Hughes. Highly recommended. 2019 cdr on Early Music.

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Jordan Perry, Jon Collin ‎– Charlottesville, 10 April 2019 cdr

The expected beauty created by Jon Collin's ambient folk guitar coupled here with Jordan Perry and recorded live. 2019 ddr on Early Music.

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Bridget Hayden - Pure Touch Only From Now On, They Said So LP

Wow, just fucking wow. Bridget Hayden, violin player of Vibracathedral Orchestra, has created what might arguably be the best album of 2018. Employing mainly electric guitars and her mournful voice, she delivers a number of extremely lo-fi but highly evocative tracks full of sorrow and despair, making a very original form of noise blues. The most pertinent comparison would be Grouper, in that they both create a very ghost-like, dense atmosphere with spectral vocals and muffled sound, but this is more on the electric side. For some reason it also brings to my mind Burzum's Filosofem, in its very idiosyncratic low production, greenish arpeggios, and the layers of sorrowful fuzz oozing from everywhere. Don't just download this, go and buy the actual vinyl from Early Music, and then go to her bandcamp and listen to some more awesomeness.

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Tom Settle - Dried Plumes tape

Beautiful acoustic guitar experiments by Tom Settle a-la John Fahey, early David Gilmour with an ambient/drone edge very close to his associate Jon Collin, which means guaranteed quality. Must listen. 2010 tape on Winebox Press, re-pressed in 2016 by Early Music.

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Jon Collin with Ross Parfitt ‎– Münster, 10 April 2016 tape

Beautiful steel-string guitar-based drone wail by the great master Jon Collin and equally talented Ross Parfitt in a live environment. Words can hardly describe how good this is. 2016 tape on Early Music.

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Jon Collin - Early Music tape

One of the best guitar players around at the moment, Jon Collin creates a link between psychedelic/acid folk and ambient music, improvising with every possible sound his acoustic guitar can create as well as playing melodies evoking images of lying under a starry sky in the desert, being something of a crossing between Derek Bailey, the ambient moments of Pat Metheny and David Gilmour in his acoustic/folky Ummagumma/Atom Heart Mother/ Meddle days. 2016 tape on Early Music.

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V/A - Kazbek: Field Recordings From The Caucasus 2012 - 2014

 

Sublime collection of field recordings of artists from the areas of Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, and Turkey) recorded by Ben Wheeler, Bulat Khalilov, Timur Kodzoko and Stefan Williamson Fa as part of the Sayat Nova Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Caucasian music and its ethnomusicological study. This is an accompaniment to the 2013 lp Mountains of Tongues. Each side of the double-tape set features different aspects of this musical tradition: Side A is songs and music ensembles playing uplifting and epic/heroic songs, side B is singers and choirs, side C is wind and reed instruments, and side D is string instruments. There are also some conversations and sounds from villages, giving this a definite Alan Lomax vibe. I can't recommend highly enough that everyone listen to this. Originally released on Winebox Press on a very limited tape run, this is the 2016 re-release on Winebox Press's sublabel Early Music.

Side A
Side B
Side C
Side D