An accomplished set of instrumental tunes from a six-string whiz. Yair Yona's 2009 album Remember contained numerous sweet instrumental guitar pieces, heavy on the acoustic side of things, with skillful fingerpicking and a variety of moods. It was, however, an austere set built around solo instrumental playing, sans vocals. Follow-up record World Behind Curtains opens up the sonic template considerably, obscuring melody lines behind echoey layers of reverb in "Expatriates" and utilizing such new sounds as keyboards and strings, as well as trumpet, French horn...
Tweet Folks, I got a new album out. CD/LP/MP available via Strange Attractors and through all the usual places you get music from. [Audio] Yair Yona - Poetry Nights In Valhalla
Tweet Folks, I got a new album out. CD/LP/MP available via Strange Attractors and through all the usual places you get music from. [Audio] Yair Yona - Poetry Nights In Valhalla
Welcome back, kiddos! Most music industry folks turned off their laptops over the holiday break, meaning we didn't have much new music to fill our last two weekly mixtapes. But with everyone now back online and our inbox once again overwhelmed with quality new sounds, we return the first Friday of a January 2011 with a mix that'll surely make up for the last two weeks. Below, you'll find this week's best new singles and remixes, Cover Me 's favorite new covers, and a batch of mp3s from up and comers you just might want to check out. Contributing [...]
Eight new cross-genre covers from an up-and-coming Israeli record label.
Hi folks, I wanted to wish you all a very happy new year. It was such a great year in music, and you can scroll down to see all the best-of lists. I've recorded a cover version of Bert Jansch's tune The Bright New Year, which you can also download for free by joining my mailing list. Have a [...]
Whenever a new instrumental acoustic guitar album reaches my ears, I'm always thrilled. I'm a sucker for new ideas of compositions on this instrument and always in search for inspiration from other musicians, to see how far they went in terms of innovation in their music. Acoustic solo guitar can be a tricky thing. It [...]
Hi everyone, Few updates from the writer of this blog ; 1. I started recording my shows, for a series of recordings called Official Bootleg. This series is available on my Bandcamp page, lo-fi recordings, yet full of charm and blurbs in Hebrew to improve your second language. You can download the recordings for free, or donate as much [...]
I'm gonna get "FOLK TAG AT BANDCAMP" tattooed on my left forearm. All caps. I'm yelling. {From Milk and Honey } {From Cold River } {From GRZ } {From Official Bootleg #2 } {From Love Is Not What You Need }
pic by Tal Argov Things are a little hectic around The Family Straw's house these days. We're having the homestead painted this week. Duke Jr. has given up his sucker at bedtime. Coconut and The Duke (plus The Duchess) are working on their new Single (due out next Tuesday). When I get overwhelmed by life, I like to listen to instrumental music. Specifically, acoustic guitar stuff. Yair Yona is a new picker I was emailed about. His album came out last year but has been re-released in the [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Brothers Young : "Good Deeds" [mp3] from Good People EP (out August 31st) other Brothers Young posts at Largehearted Boy Capstan Shafts : "Heart Your Heart Out" [mp3] [...]
Jenny & Johnny - Scissor Runner (mp3 download page) Have I been living in a cave? Don't answer that. I didn't even know that Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice had teamed up for an album until they were recently booked for an upcoming Mountain Stage show. Judging from this summery pop song, Jenny & Johnny are trying to be the new She & Him . You can download this mp3 from their new album I'm Having Fun Now , which will be released August 31st, by submitting your email [...]
IODAcast 075, Featuring: Bear In Heaven, Ra Ra Riot, Pacifika and more. Abner Trio "You're Gorgeous, Believe It!" (mp3) from "The Giant Crushes You" (Joyful Noise Recordings) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This Album [...]
1. The Torches - "Mr. Vampire" (New project from Stephen J. Perron Guidry of The Cassettes creates swampy blues rock with vocals like a crazed carnival barker that would make the perfect soundtrack to the TV show Swamp People .) http://www.thetorches.net/ Download: http://lujorecords.com/media/0 1%20Mr.%20Vampire.mp3 2. Yair Yona - "Brave Walls" (Tel Aviv based guitarist Yair Yona combines folk and post-rock ideals with otherworldly complexity to his Fahey-like acoustic [...]
Sean Smith is an excellent guitarist and a visionary composer, in the field of steel-string guitar music. He proved it over the years with several releases, though his talent was exposed to the world much thanks to the fantastic Tompkins Square compilation Berkley Guitar (this year they released the sequel - Beyond The Berkly Guitar). In both [...]
+יאיר יונה קופץ לבקר עם מיקסטייפ אורח משירי אוקרביל ריבר - הלהקה המעולה שתופיע כאן ממש... מחר בערב!,
With an overt love for Fahey, Basho and Jansch and a refracted kinship with latter day string pickers from Chasney to Rose; Israeli guitarist Yair Yona seems to draw much more from the American Delta and British Hills than from Israel's musical tradition. But Yona's immersion into the styles of these two continents strikes a fitting tribute, with a fluid style and simple touches of sadness trickling from his fingertips. Occasionally Yona's influences play very far from the chest, with songs like "Pharaoh" practically screaming Fahey, but when the instrumentation is layered; with moans of slide sidling over the picking, [...]
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