The 12-string guitar work of James Blackshaw was captivating enough to bring Swans frontman Michael Gira to tears, resulting in the release of "The Glass Bead Game" on Gira's label, Young God Records. Blackshaw, a young devotee of John Fahey and Current 93 collaborator, has developed a sound that merges lush psychedelic folk arrangements with American primitivism and ambient drone, employing a breathtaking "continuous" style of finger picking that brings to mind the piano style developed by Ukrainian composer Lubomyr Melnyk. Acoustic guitar music rarely sounds so opulent.
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