A rather spiffing looking David Tagg CD on Second Sun Recordings has arrived. 'Wind Blown Guitar' is housed in a full colour photograph card sleeve which lives inside a hand printed and stickered vellum envelope which is then in a PVC wallet. Limited edition of 100 copies! The tracks on here have a lovely dusty quality to them as David's guitar literally sounds like it's blowing in the wind. Lovely breezy sweeping reverb and subtle drones and loops make for a most engaging listen. If you've not checked out this guys stuff then I recommend doing so. He runs the excellent Install label that put out the amazing Caretaker and Peter Wright CD's so that may give you an idea of where his head is at musically. This is totally in that zone where you're between sleep on being awake. I can quite happily have this on the headphones and drool all over my pillow. Great stuff as always.
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Sound clips for Wind Blown Guitar by David Tagg: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Second Sun Recordings, SSRCD13, £9.99.
David Tagg's long-awaited follow-up to last year's Fundamentals Of Orchid Biology has finally arrived. Wind Blown Guitar carries solemn white hymns of warped wooden harmonies through cobwebbed hallways and down porch steps, into the open air of a hot summer. The whir and hum of aged reel-to-reel tapes bathes David's guitar in a humid shroud, and pools of raw reverb steam his amp like a hot bath in a cavern. Musically similar to things like "A Kingdom Of Dusk" from the 21MG Series or even Skin Diagram at times, Wind Blown Guitar contains some of David's most straightforward guitar playing yet, presented over a stately backdrop of loops and drones and woven together like an old family scrapbook. This release also features the track "Nautical Dusk", which was originally featured on Attacknine's "13 Weeks Of Summer" compilation. The definitive summer album from us at SSR, and limited to 100 copies with beautiful photography and design by David.
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