Veteran NYC-based guitarist Steve Gunn - who's best known for his releases on Matador, Three Lobed and RVNG - matches his ecstatic acoustic fingerpicking with celestial reverberations on this latest Longform diversion.
There's no weighty concept behind this one: Gunn was working in his studio when he mic-ed up his classical guitar and sent it through some effects on a separate channel. He saw the process as an "afternoon exercise", and shelved the results, but after replaying the piece on a long drive, he realized it was more intriguing than he'd initially suspected. The mood is levitational - the kind of effervescent sound you'd expect to find on a late-'70s West Coast new age tape - and Gunn's restraint makes it all the more inviting. The clean guitar is perfectly balanced with the stuttering, elongated echoes; they're not fighting for space, but completely in harmony with each other. Fans of Eno's work with Laraaji should check this immediately.
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Veteran NYC-based guitarist Steve Gunn - who's best known for his releases on Matador, Three Lobed and RVNG - matches his ecstatic acoustic fingerpicking with celestial reverberations on this latest Longform diversion.
There's no weighty concept behind this one: Gunn was working in his studio when he mic-ed up his classical guitar and sent it through some effects on a separate channel. He saw the process as an "afternoon exercise", and shelved the results, but after replaying the piece on a long drive, he realized it was more intriguing than he'd initially suspected. The mood is levitational - the kind of effervescent sound you'd expect to find on a late-'70s West Coast new age tape - and Gunn's restraint makes it all the more inviting. The clean guitar is perfectly balanced with the stuttering, elongated echoes; they're not fighting for space, but completely in harmony with each other. Fans of Eno's work with Laraaji should check this immediately.
Veteran NYC-based guitarist Steve Gunn - who's best known for his releases on Matador, Three Lobed and RVNG - matches his ecstatic acoustic fingerpicking with celestial reverberations on this latest Longform diversion.
There's no weighty concept behind this one: Gunn was working in his studio when he mic-ed up his classical guitar and sent it through some effects on a separate channel. He saw the process as an "afternoon exercise", and shelved the results, but after replaying the piece on a long drive, he realized it was more intriguing than he'd initially suspected. The mood is levitational - the kind of effervescent sound you'd expect to find on a late-'70s West Coast new age tape - and Gunn's restraint makes it all the more inviting. The clean guitar is perfectly balanced with the stuttering, elongated echoes; they're not fighting for space, but completely in harmony with each other. Fans of Eno's work with Laraaji should check this immediately.
Veteran NYC-based guitarist Steve Gunn - who's best known for his releases on Matador, Three Lobed and RVNG - matches his ecstatic acoustic fingerpicking with celestial reverberations on this latest Longform diversion.
There's no weighty concept behind this one: Gunn was working in his studio when he mic-ed up his classical guitar and sent it through some effects on a separate channel. He saw the process as an "afternoon exercise", and shelved the results, but after replaying the piece on a long drive, he realized it was more intriguing than he'd initially suspected. The mood is levitational - the kind of effervescent sound you'd expect to find on a late-'70s West Coast new age tape - and Gunn's restraint makes it all the more inviting. The clean guitar is perfectly balanced with the stuttering, elongated echoes; they're not fighting for space, but completely in harmony with each other. Fans of Eno's work with Laraaji should check this immediately.