microphones in the trees: willie lane

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

willie lane

"Lane is best known for his work with Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder and the one cd he dropped on Child Of Microtones is a regular late-night bomb at volcanic tongue. Known Quantity expands on the eerie 3am raga guitar sound of that particular side, with a series of solo guitar setting that run across 6 and 12 string acoustic, electric guitar, banjo and dulcimer with a guest appearance from Samara Lubelski on bass. There’s a heady Spectrasound feel to the recordings, a still, urban quality that isn’t a million miles from the Siltbreeze aesthetic but it’s the playing that really raises this above the countless post-Fahey/Rose/Valentine sides set on sinking six string euphorics with polished technique and nada in terms of vision. Lane’s style is weird, non-linear, spider-slow and hypnotic." volcanic tongue


foto: sharon tingley

5 comments:

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Anonymous said...

Wonderful post dear friends :))

matt b said...

!! much love and light

disconcerted said...

Nice. Thank you. Have read quite a few positive things about this album already.

Benjamin Telfer said...

Another re-up request if you could ...

I've just discovered your blog, wonderful stuff. Thank-you.