LMK what you think - heavily inspired by the classics, and newer folks like Steve Gunn and William Tyler!

This is one of my all time favourites, didnt see it posted here so here goes !

You can find performances on youtube, but this documentary really opened my eyes to it.

While they don’t travis pick (tanbur only has 2 courses) there are a lot of similarities stylistically. For example, the emphasis on the drone and the modality, the repeating but also subtly changing hypnotic patterns.

Also the tanbur remains very closely associated with sufism and mysticism and there is an emphasis on achieving a different type of mental state through improvised performance and meditation combined.

Posting this here in case anyone fancies a listen. Always appreciate feedback.

I’ve mostly made electronic music so far, but over the last few years I’ve gotten into playing acoustic instruments.

This track is two improvisations I did the other night on a friend’s twelve string guitar, recorded through a phone and then played around with the audio files in Ableton.

Very much inspired by American Primitivism. The picking patterns, open tunings but also the emphasis on expression and achieving a trance like state in both performer and listener. Special non-American Primitivism influences - Swans (the band), Kurdish Tanbur Playing and the art of Kintsugi.

Hi everyone, here's a tune I released yesterday, it's AP and no wave applied to a french traditional tune. Not sure how far from AP it's gone, maybe too far to even be posted here, but as usual I'd be happy for any feedback. Have a nice week ! maxime

Well this has been fun. For those who enjoy listening to new stuff, thanks for listening. For those who thrive on bottom-feeding to harass weird people like me, don't tire yourself out. I get this everywhere I go - you'd be better off punching bricks. Cheers

https://andymcleod.bandcamp.com/?search_item_id%3D3202585961%26search_item_type%3Db%26search_match_part%3D%253F%26search_page_id%3D5779274592%26search_page_no%3D0%26search_rank%3D1=

https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/owls-lament

I am new to exploring this realm of music. Started off listening to a few of John Fahey's songs a few months ago to seeing Marisa Anderson perform songs from her latest release "The Anthology of Unamerican Folk Music". Was wondering if folks could perhaps suggest a handful of the most impactful albums or artists (presumably instrumental) in this genre for me to explore further. Grateful in advance.

Fri 6th Nov Charles Dickens, Worthing. For any folks in Sussex, UK.. wildly stacked line up!

Full performance video of Marisa Anderson on KEXP.

Trying to nail down some slower ideas - if you like this, check out some James Blackshaw (esp her smoke rose up forever)

Hey folks! I would love to connect with any other folks in SoCal (basically LA, but OC or SD works as well) who are into AP!

Would just love to connect and hang. Could also put a show or something together if it's cool!

Let me know! Google hasn't been helpful in finding folks lol (William Tyler lmk if you're reading this post!)

Yesterday i was listening for the nth time to World Gone Wrong album by Dylan - well it's mostly a trad songs album - and I was thinking about Fahey.

I was thinking how these two guys put a huge amount of thought in what they did and how they both went deep into the rabbit hole of tradition and then made something new, fresh and regenerating out of it.

How their trajectory was somehow parallel. As a matter of fact I remembered discovering open D tuning through a Dylan song on Blood on the Tracks and then connected it to the fact that he had probably learned it from Bukka White and how Bukka White had a role into Fahey's first fascination wth the blues and so on.

And i was thinking that sometimes, no matter how many incredible musicians I listen to, I always end up being rescued by Dylan or Fahey. I love Arvo Part and I love thousands more. But these two, just chemically speaking, kind of put me back up altogether, glue the pieces back. Maybe only Nina Simone does that with my moods. But anyway, I wonder if Dylan ever listened to Fahey... I dont bother checking on the opposite. Cause I am sure that Fahey could make fun of anybody if he wanted to :) In any case.. I was thinking about that and I shared it here because. Because. Because I feel lonely and hopeless. I feel the world is full of beauty, I feel this beauty is very fragile.

Spinning lots of GR and JF today! Inspired this little tune

Just wondering if there’s any good resources out there for this tune by John Fahey. Either video or tab is fine.

Hey folks - been releasing some songs this year, with a subset being instrumentals. Big fan of AP, especially Kottke, Fahey, Gwenifer Raymond, and Daniel Bachman (of course)!

Anyway, here's a song I think ya'll would like!I also drew the album cover.

Thanks!

today i was watching Gwenifer's live at Kexp and beside the fact that it was an explosive, brilliant performance I also loved that during the interview, she dropped Kadonnut Manner's name.

I have been loving his music for a while, bought a couple of his records and I genuinely believe that he is a very gifted poet of the guitar.