pastoral landscape · ambient guitar
Plays now and then, small rooms only, mostly around Ireland and the UK — a hall, a back room, sometimes someone's front room. Nothing big. If you'd like to host one, get in touch.
“The Open Road” began with one image of fields I couldn't put down — a small thing I kept circling.
It is pastoral landscape, so nothing hurries — the ambient guitar is allowed to just sit in the room.
I hope it meets you somewhere quiet.
Slow travel is the whole subject, really — the ambient guitar just circles it.
Each pass got quieter until only fields was left.
Made small, on purpose.
No secret to how this gets made: one ambient guitar, two microphones, a room, and a lot of erasing.
The room is part of the instrument; I record it as much as the ambient guitar.
Reference points, since people ask: William Ackerman, the Windham Hill school, nylon-string folk.
Everything you hear starts at the ambient guitar and stops there too.
In the lineage of William Ackerman · the Windham Hill school · nylon-string folk · Durutti Column
William Ackerman · the Windham Hill school · nylon-string folk · Durutti Column
Layered guitar for moving slowly through open country, noticing the verge.
I write pastoral landscape on the ambient guitar. Mostly it's about the open road and fields — ordinary things, made a little more visible.
There are a handful of records — “The Open Road” — and they belong together.
Make the room quieter than you found it.