guitar mysticism
9:30 – 12am
$12 donation
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rob chalfen &
subconsciouscafe new chamber music
presents
GLENN JONES & HARRIS NEWMAN
Harris Newman has contributed to hundreds of Montreal-based recordings over the years, as both as musician and mastering engineer, including recent appearances on albums by Hangedup, Esmerine, Thalia Zedek, and Hrsta, as well his second solo album for Strange Attractors Audio House, Accidents with Nature and Each Other. Newman is joined on this recording (and at select live appearances) by percussionist Bruce Cawdron and lap-steeler Sandro Perri. His new album continues his unorthodox approach to fingerstyle acoustic guitar, deconstructing and interweaving multiple genres into his own unique voice.
on the web — http://www.harrisnewman.com
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for new album press release:
http://www.harrisnewman.com/harrisnewman_SAAH029_pressrelease.pdf
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GLENN JONES
Since 1989, Glenn Jones has led Boston’s “avant-garage” instrumental rock band, Cul de Sac, whose musical adventures are documented on 10 albums, including a soundtrack for cult-director Roger Corman (The Strangler’s Wife, 2003), and collaborations with guitarist John Fahey (The Epiphany of Glenn Jones, 1996), and former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki (Abhayamudra, 2004).
In 2001, Glenn began playing acoustic guitar, which he hadn’t touched in more than a decade, and the two most recent Cul de Sac studio albums (including the rapturously received Death of the Sun, 2003) have featured as much of his acoustic guitar as his electric.
A 30-plus-year devotee of the so-called “Takoma school,” Jones has written extensively on the label’s two leading lights: John Fahey, with whom he was friends for nearly 25 years, and Robbie Basho, who befriended Jones in the last five years of his life.
With former Takoma label guitarist Peter Lang — along with Michael Gulezian, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Henry Kaiser, Gary Lucas, Tony Conrad and others — Jones performed at sold-out concerts honoring John Fahey in New York City and San Francisco shortly after Fahey’s death in 2001.
In June 2004, Jones released his first solo acoustic guitar album, This Is the Wind That Blows It Out, for the Strange Attractors Audio House label. He followed it up with month-long tour of Europe with guitarist Jack Rose, including appearances on The John Peel Show and The Wire’s ‘Resonance.’
REVIEWS:
“Gorgeous, luminous . . . scored across a series of open tunings, which he threads with beautiful rolling melodies, his slide work sounding like the flutter of tiny metal butterflies. . . . One of the best of the recent deluge.” —David Keenan, The Wire
”. . . a thing of beauty that should appeal to all lovers of acoustic guitar, whether they play or not.” —Keith Briggs, Blues, Rhythm & the Gospel Truth
”. . . a kind of sensory magic at work. . . . It’s all done with a natural, unforced feel devoid of flash and etched in slow detail so every nuance of his vibrato and tone can be absorbed. Really, the right word is ‘felt,’ since these instrumental compositions all have genuine emotional resonance, no slight accomplishment.” —Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix
Production: Rob Chalfen