Cargo Records

Wooden Guitar

Fall 2008 marks the 5th anniversary of locust's inaugural Wooden Guitar compilation touted then, as today, as a simple title with a simple concept. Back in print on Cd and available on double 180 gram vinyl for the first time. First vinyl edition housed in screenprinted jackets much like the original compilation’s first CD release.

“Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica & a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) where guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists -- Germany's Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattle's Sir Richard Bishop (the Sun City Girls), Japan's Tetuzi Akiyama & Virginia's Jack Rose give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched out solo compositions."

"These free willed six-string explorations may owe something to the avant-folk of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, but only really as step off points for some truly original wooden guitar wonderment -4 stars, Andrew Carden, Mojo

Track Listing

1 Jack Rose Red Horse II 14:47
2 Steffen Basho-Junghans A North Thuringian Raga 14:33
3 Tetuzi AkiyamaTime Between 20:43
4 Steffen Basho-Junghans Smiling Penguins 5:13
5 Sir Richard Bishop Corpuscle 15:16