Results for "Michael Hedges"

Michael Hedges

Born: December 31, 1953

Guitarists in the Age of Isolation

by Geno Thackara
July 14, 2022

The Joel Newton Situation New Now Self Produced 2022 Since the first year of Covid had left everyone suddenly making music alone, of course it was inevitable that the trend of isolation albums would eventually give way to the out-of-isolation album as the world moved into partial circulation. For the Joel ...

Pat Martino Top Ten Albums: More Than Meets The Eye

by Ian Patterson
December 27, 2021

Hugely admired by his peers, guitarist Pat Martino never really enjoyed the high profile accorded the likes of John McLaughlin, John Abercrombie, Pat Metheny or John Scofield, though in that esteemed company the Philadelphian guitarist, who passed away in 2021, surely belongs. In a sixty-year career, interrupted for the guts of a decade by ...

Julie Sassoon: If You Can't Go Outside...Go Inside

by Mike Jurkovic
April 4, 2021

As we've learned time and time again throughout this sick year, 2021, not many humans are ready to completely surrender themselves for the good of their fellow kind. So it's truly a beautiful thing when Berlin based pianist Julie Sassoon surrenders so completely to her instrument and the moment that, like a medium, reveals mysteries to ...

Joel Newton Situation: Out Of and Into

by Geno Thackara
January 28, 2021

If Joel Newton was stuck at home in isolation during the time of Covid, his imagination apparently never got the message. Exploration and travel still make a bright and refreshing theme on this largely solo affair. Thankfully the feel of adventure and open trails has not left him; Out Of and Into has his guitar work ...

Endless Field: Alive in the Wilderness

by Geno Thackara
August 21, 2020

It would have been simple enough just to evoke the feel and mood of various nature spots, but Endless Field--Ike Sturm and Jesse Lewis--would rather show us that there's nothing like being there. Alive in the Wilderness was recorded in precisely that way, in a series of places through the desert of southwestern Utah, with all ...

Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 24, 2020

Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho A film by Liam Barker Liam Barker Film Production2015/2019 Acoustic guitar music wouldn't be the same without the pioneering effort of John Fahey, but If Fahey became the face of what he dubbed American Primitive music, a genre of advanced acoustic guitar ...

The Long Sleep

February 12, 2020

Album: Wonder
By Tobin Mueller
Label: ArtsForge
Released: 2019
Duration: 2:15

Wonder

By Tobin Mueller

Label: ArtsForge
Released: 2019
Track listing: When the Future Comes; Let the Rumpus Begin; Rebellion Is a Lullaby (To the Boy Inside); Rock the Baby; Escaping the Fray Zone; Speak Truth to Power; The Long Sleep ; Dare to Sing; Ascent of Awe; Gethsemane Revisited I Won't Leave You; I Won't Leave You (Instrumental); Before There Were Gods (feat. Michael Hedges) ; Pandora's Box; Puzzle City (feat. Anton Mueller, Bob Piper & Scott Rockenfield); Lilith's Lament; Was There Once A Time; Chaos Is a Ladder; Dreams (Awake to Me) ; Out of Toyland; What Thou Lovest Well; Merlin's Awakening; Let Yourself Dream; Lady of the Lake; Pull Me Home; What I Was Thinking While You Were Talking; Loolay Lullaby; God Bless America.

Frank Zappa's Jazz Legacy Refuses to Die, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 26, 2018

This week we continue the retrospective dedicated to Frank Zappa's complex relationship with jazz, through a mix of the jazzier compositions performed by Zappa himself and countless tributes to his music paid by jazz musicians. As Frank Zappa loved to say, quoting Edgard Varèse, “the present day composer refuses to die" and the ...