James Blackshaw Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death [Important; 2012] by Matthew Phillips Rating: Mysticism in its myriad forms boils down to a set of techniques that assist one in a process toward an ultimate goal: absolution, divinity, enlightenment, etc. One such technique that finds purchase across most traditions is repetition, sometimes in the form of a mantra, whispered ad infinitum , or a rosary, a prayer that involves a repeated motion but fixed form. James Blackshaw’s rippling flows of guitar and piano most commonly take this second structure. Love is the Plan, The Plan is Death , perhaps ...

Score: 7.6/10 Important James Blackshaw Those first phrases of lone acoustic guitar, ringing out America – that dissonant, discordant America once belonging (perhaps only) [...]

2 mai - Alabama Shakes @ Fleche d'Or ** Thomas Mery @ International ** 3 mai - Ghostpoet + Micachu @ Trabendo 4 mai - Chelsea Wolfe @ .FMR Amon Duul + Zombie Zombie @ 104 Michel Cloup @ Batofar 8 mai - Sic Alps @ Mecanique Ondulatoire 10 mai - Laura Gibson @ Cafe de la danse Holy Strays + High Wolf @ .FMR 11 mai - Terror Bird @ Espace b Sir Alice + Avant Garde + Wagner + Splash Wave @ Maroquinerie Thousand @ Espace B 13 mai - Lower Dens @ .FMR Sir Richard Bishop + Ignatz @ Les Voutes 14 mai - Fanfarlo @ Fleche d'Or Jeffrey Lewis @ .FMR 15 mai - Hunx and His Punx + James Chance @ .FMR 16 mai - Arlt @ Cafe de la danse ...

As if there weren’t enough gigs to miss in a month, May also brings over 100 bands playing three multi-venue city festivals in Manchester and Salford. Starting with Sounds From The Other City this weekend and finishing with the Chorlton Arts Festival Weekender at the end with Future Everything in between. If all goes well I may even get to more than one of these. This month’s mixtape leans more to many of the other gigs across the month including tomorrow night’s highly recommended Richard James gig at The Castle (see yesterday’s post on his latest ...

Chrome Jackson Chrome Forest [5nakefork/Skin Graft; 2012] by Gumshoe Rating: They said that when Keith Moon made a solo record in the 1970s, he decided to make a straight-up rock album with a full band instead of a project strictly for percussionists, which would have suited his skills better. I’m not sure about all that, but I have noticed a lot of GUITAR-ONLY LPs coming out of all shapes and sizes. You got yer Mick Barr/Crom-Tech/Ocrilim, yer Six Organs Of Admittance/James Blackshaw, yer Plante… all three put out six-string-salute albums without accompaniment, and all three ...

Artist: James Blackshaw Album: Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death Released: 2012 Style: Baroque Folk Format: MP3 320Kbps / FLAC Size: 87 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death 02 – Her Smoke Rose Up Forever 03 – And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways 04 – A Momentary Taste of Being 05 – [...]

gravenhurst und bristol, das waren unsere ersten stichworte in bezug auf robin allender . notiert im märz 2007, klick . das erste soloalbum war grund genug für eine kurze bemerkung. ein knappes jahr später beschäftigten wir uns mit dreamboat records, auf dem allender nicht nur in solo zugange war, sondern auch in bandformation, einfachst: the allender band. und die hoben wir schließen wiederum ein jahr später aufs tableau, um auf das damals aktuelle album "outer dark" aufmerksam zu machen, klick . nun, mittlerweile sind drei jahre ins land gegangen, in denen wir zwar auf das label, klick , und auch in einer randnotiz auf ...

inspiriert hätte ihn der science fiction schreiber james tiptree jr., auch und besser bekannt als alice b. sheldon. aufgenommen hat james blackshaw sein neues, sechs tracks umfassendes album (und nachfolger vom 2010er "all is falling" ( vorab info ) und der letztjährigen "holly ep", review ) in chicago. "love is the plan, the plan is death" wird am 24. april auf important records erscheinen. zu lesen bekommt man dazu: " written at a time of great emotional disquiet, it’s a beautiful and bittersweet new chamber work containing six original pieces whose titles are lovingly misappropriated from those of short stories by the great ...

Listening to the virtuoso strums of James Blackshaw is to be washed away. We are but sand on an eroding beach, set adrift into the vast sea. It’s a scary experience, to be witness to an underwater world full of creatures and habitats so foreign and unknown, yet so freeing to see a world unlike [...]

From The Cedar Box February  2012 James Blackshaw Written by Marissa Nadler I met James Blackshaw at the Tin Angel in Coventry, England in 2004, where we were both booked on the same bill.  It was one of my first tours outside of the United States and it was one of James' first tours as well. Even in the early years of his career, his music was already intensely beautiful.  I count myself lucky to have met such an inspiring artist at this intimate venue in the middle of England, and am happy that we have stayed friends over the ...

Among the current crop of acoustic guitar phenoms, James Blackshaw has always remained one of our favorites. His Important debut O True Believers grabbed the attention of RSTB with a mix of complexity and grace. Following a move to a few other labels including the venerable Tompkins Square and some rather intricate works for Michael Gira's Young God, Blackshaw has returned to his roots at Important. Preceded by a stunning EP, this new album is a hushed and somber piece of work. Love is the Plan, The Plan is Death sees James employing his usual mix of nylon and ...

(Tompkins Square, 2011) If I'm going to use one word to describe William Tyler's debut solo album, Behold the Spirit , it's going to be luxurious , I think.  Or, more simply, satisfaction .  But that doesn't really get at the heart of it, the richness of it; to say, simply, that it satisfies--it undersells it.  But by luxury, also, I don't want to imply that Behold the Spirit is, in some off-handed way, disposable.  It's in-between these terms, satisfying, as does water, but luxuriously (the most luxurious thing I drink is probably orange juice (albeit, expensive ...

Según podemos leer en Exclaim! el guitarrista y pianista James Blackshaw publicará un nuevo EP el próximo 24 de abril. Se titulará Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, contendrá seis nuevos temas y será editado por Important Records. Al parecer la inspiración para los cortes que componen este sencillo le ha venido al artista inglés de las novelas de la escritora de ciencia ficción James Tiptree, Jr. El piano es el principal protagonista de sus canciones instrumentales, llenas de minimalismo, suaves melodías y ricas armonías. Aunque todavía no...

Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem has always lent a unique strain of spirituality to the acoustic folk song. His ability to skirt the lines of Baroque and experimental, edging one genre into the folds of the other, has long been lauded and it’s been celebrated in the entirety of his catalog. Here Van Wissem hooks up with previous collaborator Jim Jarmusch, a pairing that seems on paper an abstract connection if Jarmusch's credit is seen only as a filmmaker. In truth Jarmusch's guitar playing is sorely under appreciated and here it adds a stormy dissonance to Concerning ...