This isn't odd, but is a fantastic Christmas album by Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Rolf Lislevand. Theorbo rocks!
https://play.google.com/music/m/Boqjvljhhxjxg24lu4yefjyut64?t=Unknown_album_-_Rolf_Lislevand
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
For those unfamiliar with pleasures of Hasil Adkins, Wikipedia has a succinct summary:
For those unfamiliar with pleasures of Hasil Adkins, Wikipedia has a succinct summary:
Frenetic in progression and explicit in lyrical content, Adkins was known for having an unconventional take on traditional rockabilly. His unpolished sound was a praised by-product of the makeshift studio equipment used for the majority of his career. "I didn't try to be primitive, I just had bad microphones", he wrote. His lyrics explored topics such as eating peanut butter on the moon and the suggestive strut of a chicken. Recurring themes in Adkins' catalogue included sex, heartbreak, decapitation, aliens, hot dogs and poultry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasil_Adkins
Frenetic in progression and explicit in lyrical content, Adkins was known for having an unconventional take on traditional rockabilly. His unpolished sound was a praised by-product of the makeshift studio equipment used for the majority of his career. "I didn't try to be primitive, I just had bad microphones", he wrote. His lyrics explored topics such as eating peanut butter on the moon and the suggestive strut of a chicken. Recurring themes in Adkins' catalogue included sex, heartbreak, decapitation, aliens, hot dogs and poultry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasil_Adkins
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Guitar World profiles outsider folk artist Ed Stilley, who made truly eccentric instruments for Jeebus.
Guitar World profiles outsider folk artist Ed Stilley, who made truly eccentric instruments for Jeebus.
Beginning with a few simple hand tools, Ed worked tirelessly for 25 years to create more than 200 instruments, each a crazy quilt of heavy, rough-sawn wood scraps joined with found objects. A rusty door hinge, a steak bone, a stack of dimes, springs, saw blades, pot lids, metal pipes, glass bottles, aerosol cans— Ed used anything he could to build a working guitar, fiddle or dulcimer. On each instrument Ed inscribed “True Faith, True Light, Have Faith in God.”
Originally shared by rare avis
Imperfect, bizarre and some even un-tunable to the modern equal temperament scale, his crudely made stringed instruments would make the most adventurous guitar collector shudder.
And yet, his instruments (and, even more, his story) are just as fascinating as Leo Fender or C. F. Martin.
A gorgeous new hardcover book by the University of Arkansas Press has just been published, documenting the life and work of this outsider luthier. The book, True Faith, TrueLight: The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley, captures his story and features stunning full-color pictures of his work. It is authored by musician and folklorist Kelly Mulhollan of Still on the Hill.
From the book’s intro: In 1979, Stilley was leading a simple life as a farmer and singer of religious hymns in Hogscald Hollow, Arkansas. Life was filled with hard work and making do for Ed, his wife Eliza and their five children, who lived in many ways as if the second half of the 20th century had never happened.
[In 1979] while plowing his field, he became convinced he was having a heart attack... [A]s he lay there in the freshly plowed dirt, Ed received a vision from God, telling him that he would be restored to health if he would agree to do one thing: make musical instruments and give them to children.
… Beginning with a few simple hand tools, Ed worked tirelessly for 25 years to create more than 200 instruments, each a crazy quilt of heavy, rough-sawn wood scraps joined with found objects. A rusty door hinge, a steak bone, a stack of dimes, springs, saw blades, pot lids, metal pipes, glass bottles, aerosol cans—Ed used anything he could to build a working guitar, fiddle or dulcimer. On each instrument Ed inscribed “True Faith, True Light, Have Faith in God.”
Author and musician Kelly Mulhollan paints a picture of a man driven by faith to make guitars for every child in his area, even though he has no training in instrument design and construction. His instruments are built from lumber-yard scraps and other unthinkable wood choices. The shapes are equally unusual because Stilley would boil the thin oak sides overnight and then bend them into whatever shape they dictated in the morning.
More...
http://www.guitarworld.com/acoustic-nation-diy-musician-fascinating-world-ed-stilley-guitars/25848
Beginning with a few simple hand tools, Ed worked tirelessly for 25 years to create more than 200 instruments, each a crazy quilt of heavy, rough-sawn wood scraps joined with found objects. A rusty door hinge, a steak bone, a stack of dimes, springs, saw blades, pot lids, metal pipes, glass bottles, aerosol cans— Ed used anything he could to build a working guitar, fiddle or dulcimer. On each instrument Ed inscribed “True Faith, True Light, Have Faith in God.”
Originally shared by rare avis
Imperfect, bizarre and some even un-tunable to the modern equal temperament scale, his crudely made stringed instruments would make the most adventurous guitar collector shudder.
And yet, his instruments (and, even more, his story) are just as fascinating as Leo Fender or C. F. Martin.
A gorgeous new hardcover book by the University of Arkansas Press has just been published, documenting the life and work of this outsider luthier. The book, True Faith, TrueLight: The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley, captures his story and features stunning full-color pictures of his work. It is authored by musician and folklorist Kelly Mulhollan of Still on the Hill.
From the book’s intro: In 1979, Stilley was leading a simple life as a farmer and singer of religious hymns in Hogscald Hollow, Arkansas. Life was filled with hard work and making do for Ed, his wife Eliza and their five children, who lived in many ways as if the second half of the 20th century had never happened.
[In 1979] while plowing his field, he became convinced he was having a heart attack... [A]s he lay there in the freshly plowed dirt, Ed received a vision from God, telling him that he would be restored to health if he would agree to do one thing: make musical instruments and give them to children.
… Beginning with a few simple hand tools, Ed worked tirelessly for 25 years to create more than 200 instruments, each a crazy quilt of heavy, rough-sawn wood scraps joined with found objects. A rusty door hinge, a steak bone, a stack of dimes, springs, saw blades, pot lids, metal pipes, glass bottles, aerosol cans—Ed used anything he could to build a working guitar, fiddle or dulcimer. On each instrument Ed inscribed “True Faith, True Light, Have Faith in God.”
Author and musician Kelly Mulhollan paints a picture of a man driven by faith to make guitars for every child in his area, even though he has no training in instrument design and construction. His instruments are built from lumber-yard scraps and other unthinkable wood choices. The shapes are equally unusual because Stilley would boil the thin oak sides overnight and then bend them into whatever shape they dictated in the morning.
More...
http://www.guitarworld.com/acoustic-nation-diy-musician-fascinating-world-ed-stilley-guitars/25848
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Some topical listening after Kol Nidre services-- a psychedelic Jewish gospel album.
Some topical listening after Kol Nidre services-- a psychedelic Jewish gospel album.
L'shanah tovah tikatevu ve techatemu, Geeps.
https://play.google.com/music/m/Bdoswrlj3f27ggdkidgvcz5o4xe?t=Unknown_album_-_Unknown_artist
L'shanah tovah tikatevu ve techatemu, Geeps.
https://play.google.com/music/m/Bdoswrlj3f27ggdkidgvcz5o4xe?t=Unknown_album_-_Unknown_artist
Friday, June 26, 2015
I'm sure this isn't even so odd by Indian standards. David Farris?
I'm sure this isn't even so odd by Indian standards. David Farris?
Originally shared by Matthew Baggott
You're welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnspfa8h5p0
Originally shared by Matthew Baggott
You're welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnspfa8h5p0
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