Guitarist/composer Michael Gulezian's first Takoma LP was recorded in 1979. His early style, represented on this CD reissue, incorporated elements of the playing of his labelmates John Fahey (also a co-owner of the label), Leo Kottke, and Robbie Basho, while at the same time going beyond their influence, bringing his own new ideas to the mix. Fans of solo acoustic guitar will find Gulezian's first outing exciting, innovative, and infused with deep spiritual feeling.
Michael's music has a deceptively calm surface, quiet and meditative, to be sure, but with depths and complexities that reveal themselves on repeated listenings. No limp New Age noodlings here-.-Gulezian approached the instrument like a rock player. He offers us a synthesis of traditional and world musics and a modern sensibility. As Fahey put it, it's an "epoch-breaking" recording.
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Track listing
ShowSide 1
- 01 Preview Wet Hair, Lather, Rinse, Repeat
- 02 Preview Arcosanti
- 03 Preview Café On The Rings Of Saturn
- 04 Preview Ian And Nisa
- 05 Preview The Moon Under Her Feet
- 06 Preview Without Her
- 07 Preview 20 Park Avenue
- 08 Preview Meandering Jelly: A Contraceptive Failure
- 09 Preview A Nice Place To Visit
- 10 Preview Ninth And Main
- 11 Preview Goodbye, My Friend
- 12 Preview Stepping On My Thumbs
- 13 Preview Golgotha
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