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MP3 E. R. Goodman - Under the Lamp
20 MP3 Songs in this album (43:32) !
Related styles: AVANT GARDE: Experimental, FOLK: Fingerstyle
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Inspired by Jim McAuley, Derek Bailey, Roger Smith, and friend, James Beaudreau, E. Ryan Goodman recorded Under the Lamp, his own brand of solo guitar improvisation. This release documents two years of immense study in a direct stream-of-consciousness playing style. Each piece is recorded in one take in different environments which lends to the intimacy of the music. Goodman’s work is influenced by classical, country, and blues, and contains dark, dissonant, quietly strange passages. Not overly dependent on extended technique, Goodman tends to spend more of his time developing an almost straight melodic idea, but never adhering to any particular one.
Time and place are also major elements within these twenty tracks. The magical happenstance of the birds native to the California Redwoods featured in the beautiful “For the Birds” is a wonderful opportunity to witness the careful thought process of an improviser at work in his surroundings. Warm television voices buried in the pulsating “Thaifood” draws you in to Goodman’s world, and nearly sets the listener in the room with him. “Ditty,” an obvious composed piece, is a short, lighthearted reprieve from the knotty and exhausting “Fit to be Tied.” The pieces are carefully sequenced in perfect order.
Under the Lamp is an obscure gem that not many will get a chance to hear because of its limited release. I’m lucky not to have missed it.
Praise for Under the Lamp:
“This solo guitar set is one of the more fetching examples of DIY acoustic termite art I''ve come across lately. These 20 brief pieces are for the most part gentle tangles of fingerstyle blues and country guitar, though there are passages of rich classical-style arpeggiating, too, such as the handsome "Thaifood". But Goodman also draws on the examples of Derek Bailey, Roger Smith and (a pleasant surprise!) Jim McAuley. There are few direct borrowings, thank goodness, but Bailey''s certainly behind a track like "Means to an End", both in the way the internal dialogue between different sound-qualities (e.g. open vs. fretted strings) is as important as the pitches, and in his care to place each note at a precise, slightly jarring distance from the last.”
−Nate Dorward, Paris Transatlantic
“Just like a collection of music recovered from the vaults, ‘Under the Lamp’ sometimes reminds one of a shellac copy of Leadbelly originals, the sexual innuendo and the unfulfillable longing of the blues coming together in explicit and unmasked rawness. It is an album that tastes of empty rooms at night and smells sweetly of tobacco…”
−Tobias Fischer, https://www.tradebit.com
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