Innerviews Music Without Borders Anil Prasad

Oct 10,2010
Anil Prasad established innerviews.org in 1994, and quickly gained a reputation among readers and artists for incisive and substantive journalism. Ten of the 24 interviewees here are guitarists—Martin Carthy, Michael Hedges, John More...

Garaj Mahal amp Fareed Haque Discovery

May 14,2010
Garaj Mahal & Fareed Haque DiscoveryFareed Haque (Sting, Joe Zawinul) was one of the earliest standard bearers for the Moog Guitar, and on this disc he puts the instrument through its many paces in the company of bassist More...

Henry Kaiser Solo Guitar 2009 Where Endless Meets Disappearing

Mar 9,2010
Bay Area creative music-meister Henry Kaiser recorded most of the improvised pieces on this solo guitar outing in a few hours back in May of 2009, using a very old school Lexicon Super Prime Time digital delay that had been More...

Makajodama Makajodama

Jun 1,2010
Swedish guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, and pedal-steel player Mathias Danielsson is flanked by violin, cello, drums, and guest brass, reed, and woodwind players on this magnificent disc of largely improvised More...

The Julien Kasper Band Trance Groove

Jun 1,2010
Exquisite tones, masterful execution, and innate soulfulness drive this jazzy, funky, bluesy, Sco-and-Beck-meet- Hendrix-for-drinks-at-the-Harvard-Psychedelic-Club instrumental joyride. Toulcat. More...

Timucin Sahin Quartet BAFA

Jun 1,2010
Wielding his signature Erkan Sizarlar 6- and fretless 7-string doubleneck, Turkish guitarist Timucin Sahin’s truly avant-garde jazz concept is brilliantly realized by New York young lions saxophonist John O’ Gallagher, More...

Frank Zappa The Freak-Out List

Jul 1,2010
Zappa included a list of 179 influences on his 1966 debut—from Schoenberg and Varèse to doo-woppers and Johnny “Guitar” Watson to Eric Dolphy and Miles—many of which are here linked to his aesthetic via various Zappa More...

The Steve Hillage Band Gong Unconvention Amsterdam 2006

Jul 1,2010
The first live performance by the SHB—formed by Hillage and synthesist/vocalist Miquette Giraudy in the wake of their involvement in the surrealist-psychedelic-Dadaist-art-rockers Gong—since 1979. Hillage’s riffs, drones, More...

Bangtower Casting Shadows

Feb 25,2011
His stint in Quiet Riot notwithstanding, Neil Citron is better known as a rock producer and engineer than a guitarist. His formidable Beck- and Vai-inspired chops are front and center on this totally smoking fusion disc, More...

Quick Hit SANTI PICÓ amp ADRIÀ GRANDIA Loop Project

Feb 25,2010
This intriguing disc of masterfully effected and looped electric guitar and hurdy-gurdy—yes, you read that correctly—music traverses a rich tapestry of largely ambient musical colors and textures while successfully avoiding most More...

Classic AlbumsRush 2112 and Moving Pictures

Feb 1,2011
Fans of the Classic Albums series will know what to expect here and Rush fans will predictably lose their minds. This is a great glimpse into the creation of the band’s two defining albums. Watching Terry Brown pull up individual More...

Unitopia Artificial

Feb 1,2011
Imagine Security-era Peter Gabriel, A Trick of the Tail-era Genesis, Dark Side of the Moon-era Pink Floyd, and mid-period Beatles with lots of modern pop and jazzy touches and the occasional string section, socially conscious More...

Simon Angell å

Feb 1,2011
Wielding Bigsby equipped semi-hollow, acoustic and lap-steel guitars—echo-drenched, oddly modulated, and often “prepared” in various ways—Angell sculpts pensive atmospheres of cinematic scope ranging from aural vignettes to a More...

Matt Stevens Ghost

Aug 19,2010
North London-based Stevens has made a name for himself on the Interwebs, especially among the avant-garde underground, largely due to savvy social networking. On this quirky, inventive, mostly upbeat, and entirely delightful More...

Citay Dream Get Together

Apr 15,2010
This San Francisco-based ensemble is headed up by guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Ezra Feinberg, accompanied by guitarists Tim Green and Sean Smith, bassist Diego Gonzalez, drummer Warren Huegel, violinist Adria Otte, and More...

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