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| | | last visible dog (usa) #lvd 077 cd matthew de gennaro “humbled down” compact disc - candlestick maker
- coal
- natura
- ross creek wander
- orange symphony
- cathedral square
- albion
- leith valley blues
- humbled down
| | last visible dog press release... |
| following the wire's declaration of the 'new weird america' and more specifically pigeon-holing artists as remote as jack rose, the jewelled antler collective, matt valentine, six organs of admittance and who knows what else into a genre they termed 'outsider folk', there has been an ever rising tide of new players delving into the arena of instrumental acoustic guitar. yet in that pile-up, the work of one matthew de gennaro has been completely missed. a web search will turn up virtually nothing, and when he does turn up it is as a footnote in the new zealand scene where, paired with alastair galbraith, he turned out a highly experimental performance on the legendary corpus hermeticum label.
all that said, matt is obscure for no reason i can understand. humbled down is about as good as this sort of solo guitar thing gets, with its pastoral shades and imaginative playing that might remind a few of roy montgomery's elegant temple iv (kranky) and songs from the south island (drunken fish).
acoustic guitar exploration; expansive with plenty of space, but also multi-textured, allowing a seemingly traditional 'folk americana' sound to hybridize with drone in a way that seems natural and compelling. |
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