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07/25 Tuesday

7:00 PM An Evening of Folk and Drone Studies for Guitar

7:30pm (doors at 7:00)
$8

An Evening of Folk and Drone Studies for Guitar

JACK ROSE (VHF, ECLIPSE)
GLENN JONES (STRANGE ATTRACTORS)
GEOFF MULLEN (ENTSCHULDIGEN, LAST VISIBLE DOG)

About the musicians:

JACK ROSE - Member of the legendary drone/noise/folk group Pelt since
1995. Pelt along with Tower Recordings, UN, Charalambides was one of
the early groups who forged a new sound that combined free improv,
drone, traditional folk music in the early to mid nineties, later
coined "weird new america" by the Wire's David Keenan in the early
oughts. Since 2001 Rose has pursued his own path in the solo acoustic
guitar solo genre as invented by John Fahey. Like Fahey, Rose draws
his inspiration from early rural American musicians like Charley
Patton, Skip James and Blind Blake. In addition to those influences
he gleans inspiration from Robbie Basho, Ry Cooder, Zia M. Dagar, La
Monte Young, Terry Riley. Jack incorporates all of these elements
into his own idiosyncratic style and it is his sound and his alone.
Since 2002 he has released 3 critically acclaimed LP's for the Eclipse
label, 2 cd's for VHF, and has appeared on several important
compilations documenting the new folk underground.

http://www.vhfrecords.com/jackrose/

Most folks know GLENN JONES as guitarist extraordinaire for Cul de
Sac, in which his idiosyncratic blend of surf, Middle Eastern,
Americana and acid guitar innovations are a signature of the band's
much-ballyhooed sound. A scholar of sorts of the acoustic steel string
tradition, Jones has written extensively on the subject, as can be
found in the wave of Robbie Basho and John Fahey reissues on Fantasy
(not to mention the great essay on Fahey that accompanies his final
album, Red Cross). Jones befriended his idol John Fahey in the
mid-70's, eventually collaborating with him via Cul de Sac (The
Epiphany of Glenn Jones, Thirsty Ear 1996). Recently, Jones released
his debut solo album. This is the Wind That Blows it Out - Solos for 6
& 12 String Guitar is a collection of stylistically ambitious, utterly
sublime acoustic steel-string compositions, proving beyond a shred of
doubt that Jones is of a rare class of modern compositional guitarists
in today's burgeoning avant folk scene.

http://www.strange-attractors.com/catalog/saah024.html

GEOFF MULLEN'S debut release, "thrtysxtrllnmnfstns" contains a series
of delicate thunderstorms scored for string instruments, bias-altered
amplification and analog circuitry that at once recall both the
slow-arc Americana of the Vanguard and Takoma labels and the
contemporary guitar-based minimalism and drone-work of fine folks such
as Rafael Toral and Fennesz. ""Geoff's first demo... may very well be
the best demo i've ever received... for myriad reasons; for one it
doesn't sound wholly like any one other thing i've ever heard..." -
Keith Fullerton Whitman

http://www.entschuldigen.com/