Mark McGuire - Losing Sleep

You already know the man. This is his latest stuff, super tight like every other albums. Recorded summer 2009 at his home. With his twin GigaDelays (beyond rad).

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Expo '70 - Corridors to Infinity

Marvelous guitar drone to zone out on a nice evening like this. Chill out some buds and roll some blunts.

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Robbie Basho - Twilight Peaks

This is originally released in '85 but I think it has been reissued recently. This one is easily my favorite Basho stuff, although almost all of his albums are equally amazing. Guitar. Raga. Basho. Paradise.

Robbie Basho - Twilight Peaks

Zak Riles - Zak Riles

Grails' brain Zak Riles has take on Fahey and other guitar raga apparitions. Essential listening for followers of Important Records who favor the peaceful minds of rocky shores meditation for the good souls. Current Favorite.

Zak Riles - Zak Riles

Robbie Basho - Venus in Cancer

Robbie Basho released Venus in Cancer in 1969 on the Blue Thumb label. After five albums for the Takoma label in the 60's, Basho had cemented his reputation alongside John Fahey and Leo Kottke as one of the most brilliant guitarists of his generation. His wide range of musical influences from around the globe set him apart from other blues-based players, incorporating Arabic, Himalayan and Indian themes, Japanese and Chinese scales, and classical and European folk music. All are on magnificent display on this sprawling, spiritually-charged album.

Robbie Basho - Venus in Cancer

Ben Reynolds - Two Wings

Glasgow, Scotland guitarist Ben Reynolds has been a prominent player in and contributor to the United Kingdom's fertile underground psych/drone scene for many years. A current member of the long-running and highly influential Ashtray Navigations, Reynolds appears on numerous recordings in the tight-knit UK drone cabal, including those by the venerable Vibracathedral Orchestra and Sunroof, and is also active via his duo project Motor Ghost with Directing Hand's Alex Neilsen. Entirely improvised, Two Wings effortlessly weaves shimmering melodic lines together to form spontaneous compositions of dazzling depth and clarity. Incorporating a variety of pacing techniques with his fingerpicking style, Reynolds explores a linearity that harkens back to the American ragas of Robbie Basho, while exposing Middle Eastern influences much like the acoustic trickery of Sir Richard Bishop. The last tune on Two Wings is a written composition, utterly graceful yet striking in its similarities to the spontaneous compositions, underlying the lyrical quality in Reynold's music making. Two Wings is a remarkably unique, non-traditional take on the steel string tradition from a budding musical talent.

Ben Reynolds - Two Wings

Jesse Sparhawk - Palmaria Palmata

Jesse Sparhawk is a multi-instrumentalist composer whose instruments include, but are not limited to harp, guitar, bass and mandolin. He has recorded and/or performed with Greg Weeks, Marissa Nadler, Fern Knight, Greg Davis, Out Hud and many others. Palmaria Palmata is a wonderful self released cdr of solo acoustic guitar composition. His playing is technically very challenging employing complicated timing, natural harmonics, unusual chord voicing and intricate finger picking.

Jesse Sparhawk - Palmaria Palmata

V/A - Imaginational Anthem Vol. 2

Imaginational Anthem Volume 2 expands and builds on this theme with 70+ more minutes of guitar magic - all previously unreleased on CD in the US. 24-year old UK 12-string upstart James Blackshaw opens the record, while the late master Robbie Basho, a clear influence on Blackshaw's style, closes it. Basho's track is the only live recording by this groundbreaking guitarist ever released. Riches abound on Imaginational Anthem Vol 2, with new recordings by former Takoma roster alumni Peter Lang (who made an album with John Fahey and Leo Kottke), Billy Faier (an original Greenwich Village folkie whose late 50's Riverside records inspired a fellow crack banjo player, Steve Martin) and an archival home recording by Fred Gerlach (a favorite of Jimmy Page). The new breed is well-represented by fascinating figures of today - Smith, Carter, Sparhawk, Kraus, Rose and Blackshaw. Legendary singer/songwriter Michael Chapman, whose first albums for the Harvest label in the 60's are now seeing the light again, contributes as well.

V/A - Imaginational Anthem Vol. 2 part 1
V/A - Imaginational Anthem Vol. 2 part 2

Currituck Co. - Ghost Man On First

With a transatlantic sound that brings together both UK and American folk influences, Currituck Co.'s Ghost Man On First CD is a unique blend of sonics that occasionally brings to mind an imaginary meeting of Bert Jansch and Robbie Basho, the mixture of covers and originals is a mesmerising stew. There's the traditional banjo/vocal two-step of "I Truly Understand", Jansch's "Silly Woman" and Nina Simone's "Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair" (reworked as the folk-raga piece "A Raga Called Nina") as well as Barker originals like "Requiem for John Fahey", the astounding "A Raga Called Pat Cohn", which blends acoustic guitar with tablas and Silvertone air organ to hallucinatory effect, and the fearsome "March of the People Who Do Not Know You", an electric guitar freakout bound (and likely aimed) to upset folk-purist dullards everywhere.

Currituck Co. - Ghost Man On First

James Blackshaw - O True Believers

A perfect audial treat from a UK young and super talented guitar-raga virtuoso, James Blackshaw. This guy is the true amalgamation of John Fahey and Ravi Shankar's soul. Spine-chilling.

James Blackshaw - O True Believers