Search for   wildcard searchword search With search mode ANDOR in allband specialsreviewsarticlesmp3 section(s) And sort the results by BandnameAlbumtitle/Articletitle/SongDate show articles written by All authorsNiels van Rongen Andreas Oelke Sander Hordijk Jacob Avlund Justin Faase Aldo Quispel Dan Felch François Monti Jeff Jacobus David Bauwens Roger Batty Patrick Toepoel John Pusieski Duncan Simpson Erwin Michelfelder N.S. Endebo Nicholas Szczepanik Delirious Insomniac manuel pereira Russell Cuzner Sven Klippel Serdar Yegulalp Josh Landry Lawrence J. Patti David Bourgoin Viktorya Kaufholz Andy Ortmann Various Justin Marc Lloyd Martin P James DC Todd Robinson Nicola Vinciguerra Bill Too Ross Baker Richard T Williams Paul Casey Hal Harmon Dave Biddulph Michael Cunningham Jean-Paul Garnier Tyler L. Julien Skrobek Cory Strand Adam Skyes Darren Charles James Shearman Sergey Pakhomov Johan Strömvall Hammarstedt Lob Instagon Jennifer Wallis Jan Warnke Damien De Coene A. Cooley Manuel Armida-Honner Julien Skrobek Karl Grümpe Colin Lang Alex McLean Cavan Gilbey Sarah Gregory Jac Silver Casper van der Veen Joanne West William Burns    Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z  Richard Leo Johnson & Gregg Bendian - Who Knew Charlie Shoe? [Cuneiform - 2007] The days of a big budget being a prerequisite for recording an album are long gone. Homerecording may be cheaper, good instruments are still expensive and there's enough gear fiends drooling over the newest models or its opposite: the most vintage and authentic. Richard Leo Johnson and Gregg Bendian show on this album that good musicianship is not in the gear. Johnson's guitars are a collection of the cheapest he could find on eBay and Bendian uses whatever he could find lying around for percussion. The album suggests that we're entering an entirely different world, that of Charlie Shoe. The credits for 'that world' read Junk Fish, Charlie Shoe and Charlie Shoe, sr. as personnel. Charlie also made the drawings scattered around in the booklet. It's a personal world of sometimes abstract soundscapes of found sounds, a stadium solo for pull-down attic stairs played by Junk Fish for instance (Junk Fish Out Of Water). Most of the time fairly traditional bluegrass and Americana with an occasional sidestep to for instance Hawaii (Where The Rivers Meet). The album is a warm and friendly fantasyworld where's it's quite easy to feel at home, even if you're not born in the USA. Some aspects of the music being 'avant garde', primarily by means but not so much by execution. Who Knew Charlie Shoe primarily is a charming and sonorous mix of Americana injected with some exotica and experimentation. The marriage of Johnson's fingerpicking and slide guitar skills with Bendian's playful junk percussion is very successful and unique and dripping with a joy for playing. Richard Leo Johnson & Gregg Bendi... The days of a big budget being a prerequisite for recording an album are long gone. Homerecording may be cheaper, good instruments are still expensive and th... 080226   400 Lonely Things - Creature ... 060226   PBK & Howard Stelze - She Thi... 060226   Wilt - Mold The Earth 060226   Andreas Rönnquist - The Fou... 060226   Vampire Zombies…from Space ... 060226   This Is What I Hear When You ... 060226   Niacinamide - The Eyes Of Ages 060226   Aberdeen Abattoir - Only Pain... 050226   Crash And Burn - Crash And Bu... 050226   Visitors from the Arkana Gala... Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding Wall... Back in 2024, I got my first taste of Absurd Reality, and I was so impressed by how crude and nasty its take on walled noise was. Behind the project is South... 290126   Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding ... 231225   Creepy Images Books - Killer Art 221225   Best Of 2025 - Music, Sound &... 041225   The Spectral Sounds of The Pr... 281025   Michael Hurst Interview - Unb... 071025   Xiphos - The Rise And Fall Of... 030925   Third Window Films - A Label ... 130825   HNW fest- Barcelona- 12th Apr... 250725   Raté interview - Walled-in F... 180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha...

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