toni ruiz, guitars - with the eventual collaboration of charlie, percusion, guitar; and fernando, jose & artemi, guitars / as "amber lions": with valerio cosi on sax, drums, bass, electronics, drones
Influences
tony conrad, henry flynt, john cale, angus maclise, fred neil, sun ra, lennie tristano, charlie mingus, john coltrane quartet, thelonious monk, bill evans, john fahey, bruce langhorne, jose larralde, baden powell, heitor villa-lobos, erik satie, moondog, joao gilberto, violeta parra, atahualpa yupanqui, odetta, yusef lateef, eric dolphy, chico hamilton, jimmy giuffre, mccoy tyner, don cherry, roland kirk, gabor szabo, gato barbieri, pharoah sanders, robbie basho, dino valenti, vince martin, the velvet underground, sandy bull, karen dalton, tim hardin, patty waters, the godz, peter walker, the byrds, tim buckley, liberation music orchestra, leonard cohen, the seventh sons, mel lyman lisa kindred jim kweskin, richie & mimi farina, buffy st. marie, neil young, pearls before swine, incredible string band, pentangle, syd barrett, fairport convention, nick drake, julie driscoll brian auger & trinity, caetano veloso, derek bailey, fela kuti, charlemagne palestine, satwa, ze ramalho e lula cortez, musica dispersa, can, agitation free, faust, joy division, glenn branca, sonic youth, the fall, dinosaur jr, sun city girls, arnold dreyblatt, cul de sac, jim o'rourke, gastr del sol, labradford, rachel's, for carnation, smog, palace brothers, macmahan, callahan & oldham, pullman, hochenkeit, ali farka touré, tinariwen, pelt, rod poole, jackie-o motherfucker, dj shadow, the dirty three, tortoise, town and country, harris newman, bosco & jorge, currituck co,..................
Sounds Like
(according to diverse sources: critics, reviewers, friends, fans, historians, scholars, encyclopedies...): satwa, six organs of admittance, bardo pond, tower recordings, jandek, sonic youth, steffen basho-junghans, fennesz, david grubbs, the blithe sons, the ivytree; organic melancholy, free-form pastoralism, upside-down improvisations, skewed open tunes, spinning, evocative, indeterminacy, sliding, ramshackled, sketched, dark, jangly, layered, chaotic, campfirish, spontaneous, subtle, emotional, soothing, unfinished, indefinite
... This is a collection of home-recorded improvisations on guitar, often with open tunings and mostly very loose ends, never looking for structures, but only building up on the mood of the fingerpickings which almost the guitar-with-the-performer (in this order) create. Sometimes, like The Golden Crescent, these sound like campfire improvisations without the heart and fire, focusing into the empty space, but more often are almost too private, meditative sessions which spins and spins around. This is completely a mood thing, at times, comparable to the most esoteric moments of Satwa. Even when the guitars are melodic, the chords are so loosely directing, the effect of turning around and spinning creating something psychedelic. Two tracks are live improvisations as a quartet, with some percussion, vocal mournings and sound loops. Me Voy Bueno might be my favourite track : a melodic picking open blues tune-or-whatever spin with a perfectly fitting almost meccano-like guitar case rhythm, with some changing and almost losing-it-into cloud-staring rhythmic pulses near the end, but still just unconsciously ? directed enough to make its own sense of being almost deliberate. No track is really too long or ever boring, and the mix of all improvisations is compiled well. For me it is a very enjoyable CD, attractive specially to those who are able to accept the essence of just moody and loose psychedelic acoustic guitar spinning wheels." - Gerald
Van Waes (Psych Van Het Folk)
OUT NOW on Idiosyncratics Records : Phil Maggi - Blue FIelds in Paramount CD
Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a limited to 300 copies ekopack release with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek.
Hey Toni! Hemos subido dos nuevos temas de nuestro nuevo EP Gris, grabado y mezclado por Roberto Mallo y masterizado por Rafael Martínez del Pozo Esperamos que os gusten Abrazos Ó
PD: cuando quieras te organizamos una gira por el noroeste, que hay ganas de verte
Finally today I have the pleasure to announce you that Kutomo's cdr, Lauluja surun kaaresta is available on Dala Horse myspace.
This is the first release of the label so... I hope you'll like it.
The cdr is limited to 36 copies:
Kutomo is probably the Finnish project that,in the last years, has best embodied the feeling of his mother land. In his music lives all the poetry about the cold, the lakes and the immense Finnish forests. Melancholy and intimate as a day passed looking at the snow falling outside a window but also, in a certan way, "ephic" as the natural landscapes of his land.
CIAN NUGENT 'Childhood, Christian Lies & Slaughter' CD Cian Nugent is a 19 year old guitar player from Dublin who combines squicky pre-war blues, Appalachian string band music, and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. This cd documents a great live set, produced by Jozef Van Wissem.
¡Qué tal don Javi! Tío me gocé hace poco un concierto de Steffen Basho-Junghans cojonudo! No se si tienes algo de él, pero un colega le compró dos cds y tengo copias. Ya te diré los títulos, porque no los recuerdo. Pero los llevo para allá. En marzo estaré por ahí.
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