New Compilation: Guitar Futures Imagined
The future isn’t what it used to be. Not long ago, the future was considered an optimistic place where everyone gets along, technology solves all problems and stuff generally keeps improving. Music was one of those things. Right Brain Records’ new compilation album aims to recapture that spirit. It’s called Gitaristo Futura. Its theme is simple: We focus on the most familiar of instruments and ask, where will we go from here?
This record includes original instrumental tracks by guitarists from all over the Earth: Austria, Italy, Basque Country, England, Argentina, Tasmania and distant corners of North America. That covers a lot of ground. Some pieces are electric, some acoustic and others barely recognizable as guitar. A bunch of our contributors are well-established, several have toured internationally, while others are emerging.
Two things unite these innovative musicians: they sound uniquely like themselves, and their musical visions help all of us, their listeners, imagine new realities.
Here’s a rundown of contributors, with links to their songs (and artist sites), in the order they appear:
Nick Vander is a prototypical experimentalist who explores the dimensions of sound.
Francesca Naibo is an improviser with a remarkably diverse range, from acoustic to deep electric sounds to classical influence.
Scot Ray brings the soul of a trombonist and the mindset of a mad scientist to the lap steel guitar.
Barry Chabala & sweetearthflying are a collaborative duo that crafts evocative and very visual soundscapes.
Reticence is a solo project of Aaron Riverwood, who’s defined a unique New England psychedelia.
Julius Schwing is an accomplished improviser who draws creative inspiration from his remote South Pacific home.
Wes Lunsford is an emerging talent from Nashville who brings a fresh melodic approach to freeform improv.
Geiger von Müller is an acoustic slidist and "a solid proponent of the neo-cubist semi-deconstructionist blues scene."
Matt Benham is a master of sound generation who uses his guitar to enter parallel and sometimes perpendicular universes.
A. Maiah is an artist who cannot rest with any status quo, here using prepared acoustic guitar to explore uncharted inner spaces.
And So We Weep is the solo project of Chris Williams, whose “noise poems” tap the spirit of his Southern Appalachian home.
Marcus W. Schneider is an emerging talent from Vienna who find deeply emotional twists in his experimental compositions.
You can listen to the full album here, and support these intrepid musicians as they venture where no sounds have gone before…
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