Tompkins Square
2008
The Fall Apartment: Instrumental Guitar
About This Album
Tompkins Square Records has staked a claim for itself as the real home of acoustic music with new records by Charlie Louvin, Peter Walker, Spencer Moore, Ran Blake, Charles Gayle, and Bern Nix, as well as 12-string guitar wunderkind James Blackshaw. They do phenomenal reissues and samplers, too, such as the Imaginational Anthem series, and brilliant titles by Robbie Basho, Max Ochs, Richard Crandell, Polk Miller, and Harry Taussig, to name a few. Most music fans know Brad Barr's work as the lead guitarist and frontman for the Slip, who some were astonished by when they opened for singer and songwriter Sonya Kitchell in 2007 and 2008. No one who's ever heard him play would ever doubt his guitar chops; yes, that said, no one's ever heard him quite like this before. The Fall Apartment: Instrumental Guitar is exactly what it says it is, a collection of 11 pieces for solo guitar. All but three of these pieces are original. The three covers are as wildly diverse as the originals, and include a spaced yet intensely personal reading of Kurt Cobain's "Heart Shaped Box," Cuban maestro Ernesto Lecuona's "Maria La O," and "Gin Gin" from legendary Andalusian (gitan) dancehall guitarists Le Trio Ferret, who recorded during the 1930s and '40s.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,4,5,7,8,9 and 11)

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