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Acoustic, avant-folk, British folk.

The British-born, Chicago-based guitar virtuoso James Elkington has served as a freelance axemaster for folks like Richard Thompson and Jeff Tweedy, and he’s a member of the recently-reunited Eleventh Dream Day. On past solo albums, Elkington has proven that he’s a very good singer-songwriter. Elkington released his last album Ever-Roving Eye in 2020, and he’s going in a different direction on his next record.

Me Neither, James Elkington’s next solo record, is a double LP of short, improvised instrumentals. Elkington says that he came up with each of the tracks at his studio, early in the morning, and that he thinks of them as “library music.” Today, he’s shared the title track, a lovely acoustic excursion that sets a nice atmosphere without drawing much attention to himself. Here’s what Elkington says about the project:

I’d improvise and record the first thing that came into my head, quickly record something else on top of that, try to add some random elements, edit it and mix it, then stop before it had the chance to get stale. The only rules I gave myself were that I should make most of the sounds with a guitar, changing the speed or processing of the recordings afterwards to get the effect I was looking for. I think I was hoping it would sound more like how electronic music sounded when it was mostly made from tape-manipulation in the ‘50s and ‘60s.

Tracks:
01. No-Shows
02. Burial At See
03. A Message For The Janesville Kings
04. A Round, A Bout
05. Look Spectral!
06. The 100 Faced-Magma
07. A Breathable Liquid
08. The Permeable Realm
09. Section 2
10. Double Orchid
11. Part The Thin Painter From His Work
12. Every Second Morning
13. Section 3
14. Me Neither
15. Contact Twig Estrangement
16. New Red Masterpiece
17. Cup Cape
18. The Bird Renamed
19. Psycasts In Love
20. Where For Do I Run
21. The Home Counties
22. Today's Dictation
23. Untidled
24. Sleep Baguettes Sleep
25. Infintu B
26. Tree Breather
27. The Incredible Waist Of Time
28. Nor Yet Door But The One
29. The Winner Takes It All

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QJq1PcnTv8