Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday after a walk with Gehenna Belvedere by Steven R. Smith, released on Autopia in 1996.

Steven R. Smith is an American musician, instrument-builder, and printmaker often associated with the Jewelled Antler collective. Born in Fullerton, California and based in San Francisco and, more recently, Los Angeles, he has been musically active since the mid-1990s. His main instrument is guitar, both acoustic and electric, although other instruments, including the hurdy-gurdy, bouzouki, fretted spike fiddles, and assorted ethnic instruments, have been incorporated into his work. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b95bJBkfxQ0&list=RDb95bJBkfxQ0&start_radio=1

#StevenRSmith #JewelledAntler #FreakFolk #FolkMusic #Guitar #Ambient #Music #AmericanPrimitive

Apologia by James Blackshaw, self-released in 2003.

Apologia is the first solo guitar recording by James Blackshaw, which he self-released in 2003 on CD-R in an edition of 30.

"Apologia was written on a cheap Yamaha guitar with a ridiculously high action over the course a couple of months in 2002 and recorded in February 2003, a few months before I picked up a 12-string guitar for the first time and wrote and recorded my first release, Celeste...." --James Blackshaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjZ-qfr71Vs&list=PL9uAnYN836OvPArZLXh7_Qbwmfl5n3pa-&index=1

#JamesBlackshaw #Fingerpicking #Guitar #AmericanPrimitive #FolkMusic #Music

"Il y a tout autour de nous,
ce pays
du feu originel "

« Amérique primitive » de Mary Oliver est le premier volume d’une nouvelle collection qui proposera des recueils de poèmes, de poètes étrangers ou francophones qui s’inscrivent dans le programme éditorial de Poesis autour du thème « Habiter poétiquement le monde ». Ce recueil, Prix Pulitzer de poésie en 1983, traduit pour la première fois en français par Cécile A.Holdban et Thierry Gillybœuf.

#maryoliver
#americanprimitive
#americanpoetry
#littératureaméricaine
#Parution

The Mylar Tantrum by Sunburned Hand of the Man

Originally released on cd in a printed card sleeve, as Part 5 of the "Modern Containment" subscription only series from Three Lobed Recordings. Limited to 550 copies.

Recorded in 2006 at the Sunburned Loft, Charlestown, MA as an alternative soundtrack to Ira Cohen's 1968 film The Invasion Of Thunderbolt Pagoda, which was reissued on dvd by Aurthur Magazine which also included an alternate soundtrack by Acid Mother's Temple

https://sunburnedhandoftheman.bandcamp.com/album/the-mylar-tantrum

#SunburnedHandoftheMan #Soundtrack #Drone #Music #AmericanPrimitive #Psychedelia

When Sorrows Encompass Me 'Round by Magic Tuber Band, released on Feeding Tube Records in 2021.

As on their first album, Wayward Airs for Earthbound Vagrants (Blue Hole MC), Magic Tuber also display a somewhat Fahey-esque hand with song titles. The first three on this one are “Quarry Ate the Mountain,” “Waltz for Things with Wings,” and “Devil on a Root Monster.” But as good as those titles are, the tunes are better. The vibe reminds me of a pared-down version of Jack Rose’s work with the Black Twig Pickers, in the way it manages to keep one foot in the tradition without sounding at all hidebound.

When Sorrows Encompass Me 'Round is a great (and dare I say, joyous) sophomore effort by a most wonderful band. I hope to hear more from them soon, and so will you.

–Byron Coley, 2021

https://magictuberstringband.bandcamp.com/album/when-sorrows-encompass-me-round

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zF-kvTmwp8&list=RD-zF-kvTmwp8&start_radio=1

#MagicTuberBand #FeedingTubeRecords #folk #americanprimitive #americana

The Seal of the Blue Lotus is the debut studio album of composer and guitarist Robbie Basho, released in 1965 by Takoma Records.

Skip Jansen, of Allmusic, favorably compared Basho's Eastern-influenced musical approach to that of John Fahey and noted the influence of Ravi Shankar. Jansen gave the album four out of five stars, concluding that it is "An essential document for folk guitar fans." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNFmme8AIAc&list=RDHNFmme8AIAc&start_radio=1

#robbiebasho #americanprimitive #folkguitar #takomarecords

Ended the weekend and welcomed the working week after my swim with Seven Years Late
by Hayden Pedigo his debut LP
released in 2013 on experimental Austin label Marmara Records.

"Hayden Pedigo is an acoustic guitarist and soundscape composer from Amarillo, Texas. Hayden spent his teen years woodshedding the American primitive guitar picking styles of John Fahey combined with experimental sound manipulation and by his early 20s he had already collaborated with luminaries such as Charles Hayward of This Heat, Fred Frith, Werner Diermaier of Faust and Terry Allen."

https://haydenpedigo.bandcamp.com/album/seven-years-late?t=8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYVSp-AkD24&list=RDdYVSp-AkD24&start_radio=1

#HaydenPedigo #debutLP #Texas #americanprimitive