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Artist: Richard Crandell
Website: www.myspace.com/richardcrandel
Track Name: The Proletarian Shuffle
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This is one of those tough ones, you need to start over on the MySpace site with “The Proletarian Shuffle” from the album Oregon Hill. It was the first recorded collaboration between Crandell and Bill Bartels. This is just a beautiful guitar duet by two obvious masters.

On “GN6″, a solo piece over at MySpace, he reminds me of Davey Graham or early Bert Jansch. Crandell trawls the same areas as people like Steve Reich, Terry Riley and John Fahey (who we must chat about some day), the story he creates is a hypnotic minimalist landscape, full of repetition and variation and really interesting/subtle phrasing.

Now apart from being a monster guitarist, Richard Crandell also plays a nifty Mbira, a Zimbabwean thumb piano also known in parts of Southern Africa as a kalimba. On “Steelhead” and ‘Bells” Crandall and percussion magician, Cyro Baptista weave a magical spell that will ease you into the sound and feel of this instrument. Sadly there only short snippets available and these are taken from Mbira Magic available from Tzadik Records. it was voted a Top 10 Album of 2004

But back to the guitar, If I was you I would head over to CD Baby: and order a copy of RICHARD CRANDELL & BILL BARTELS: Oregon Hill

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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