James Blackshaw

James Blackshaw (UK)

Live στο Les Yper Yper

Κυριακή 9 Δεκεμβρίου

O James Blackshaw – μόνιμος κάτοικος του Hastings της Μεγαλης Βρεταννίας- γεννήθηκε το 1981 και το κύριο μουσικό του όργανο είναι η δωδεκάχορδη ακουστική κιθάρα. Έχει ήδη κυκλοφορήσει εννιά άλμπουμ σε σημαντικές ανεξάρτητες δισκογραφικές εταιρείες μεταξύ αυτών η Young Gοd Records και η Important Records. Αξίζει να σημειωθεί ότι την τελευταία φορά που επισκέφθηκε την χώρα μας ήταν μέλος του σχήματος των Current 93 και από τότε έχει περιοδεύσει ως opening act με τους Swans.

Παρόλη τη σχετικά μικρή του ηλικία έχει ήδη καθιερωθεί ως ένας από τους πιο βιρτουόζους σύγχρονους κιθαρίστες. Το μοναδικό του μουσικό του στύλ πηγάζει μέσα απο την φολκ, την κλασσική μουσική, τον μινιμαλισμό και τον πειραματισμό για αυτό και πολλοί τον έχουν συγκρίνει με τεράστια ονόματα του χώρου όπως οι Bert Jansch, John Fahey, Robert Basho, Jack Rose και Leo Kottke.

Ο James Blackshaw επισκέπτεται τη χώρα μας up to the time για τρείς διαδοχικές εμφανίσεις, 6, 8 και 9 Δεκεμβρίου σε Αθήνα, Λάρισα και Θεσσαλονίκη προσκεκλημένοι των Catch The Soap, You Trip Me Up και Melotron Productions αντίστοιχα.

Ώρα έναρξης : 21.30
Είσοδος : 10 ευρώ

Press

"... A veritable solo symphony that's as schooled in uncommon beauty as it is in complex 20th century composition... Blackshaw writes high drama into instrumental music with subtlety and charm, speaking on sentiments and stories without requiring a single lyric... Blackshaw seems fully settled, engaging his pieces and ideas with the unflinching belief of Tony Conrad in 1964 or Steve Reich in 1965..." - Grayson Currin, Pitchforkmedia.com

"...his first Young God album, 'The Glass Bead Game', continues Blackshaw’s hot streak that has stretched for four or five years now. This one has five longish to epic tracks, two of which feature Blackshaw on piano, a development of the work he initiated on “Litany Of Echoes”….The sound this time is a little fuller, a little more orchestrated, a little further away from the folk/Takoma school tag he was first saddled with, but his grace-filled compositional style remains more or less consistent...gorgeous, pensive...an extraordinary album" - John Mulvey/Uncut Magazine

"...strong influences from outside the precincts of folk music: minimalist composers like Steve Reich and Terry Riley, and some of their precursors, like Erik Satie... [Blackshaw] fingerpicks his 12-string Guild with an immersive focus befitting such heady allusions... a stark and ancient feeling, like something handed down through the ages...." - NY Times

"...one of the best and most original instrumentalists in the new, acoustic renaissance." - Rolling Stone

"In the tradition of "American Primitive" guitarists within which he's often grouped, James Blackshaw cuts rather an odd figure. Neither American, nor primitive, nor as Litany of Echoes begins, even playing the guitar, the English musician is all about upending the expectations we might have from his instrument. Whereas kindred spirits like John Fahey and Robbie Basho looked East for their Raga-inspired guitar diversions, Blackshaw instead sounds more East-Coast: his long-distance guitar tunes recalling NY minimalism, or Sonic Youth, as arranged for chamber orchestra. Mesmerising stuff, and proof that less is often more." - John Robinson, Uncut Magazine

"There's an indecent ease to James Blackshaw's guitar playing. His fingerpicking mantras are as melodic as a music box, gliding through dizzying tempos like clockwork... Such is the silky control he exherts over his instrument, Blackshaw often sounds more like a court harpist than a backwoods strummer." - Derek Walmsey, The Wire

"The most gem-like overlooked album this year is neither hairy nor scary; rubber-necking into the great unknown isn't high in its priorities. But it is preternaturally beautiful. O True Believers by 24-year-old guitarist James Blackshaw features 10 fingers and 12 strings and, frankly, urinates all over whatever will be the Mercury Prize's token folk nominee next year. Blackshaw is British, but virtually no one has heard of him outside the US folk underground; he deserves ticker-tape parades. His style derives from the Takoma school founded by John Fahey, but that is all detail. Blackshaw's got it all: skills to hyperventilate for, and instinctual loveliness in spades." - Kitty Empire, The Observer

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