A right-hand circular motion, thumb and index striking a rumba rhythm, fast. This is "Putugizi," a fingerstyle technique from Malawi, shown by master guitarist Daniel Kachamba.
He said the name means Portuguese, the style likely traveled to Malawi from neighboring Mozambique.
Filmed in 1972 by ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik, who spent his life documenting African guitar.
Richard Lloyd, founding member & guitarist of Television, checks into a New York hospital for a procedure that would purify his blood after heavy drug use in 1977 and Godlis sets up a photo essay to document it for Rock Scene magazine.
reading old nin interviews where trent talks abt not wanting to still be singing "head like a hole" when hes 60 and like... well, i get it. but. at least you didn't write "party time sexy disorder"
music sucks now bc guys who can write good guitar solos just mass produce reels instead of serving the artistic vision of a talented narcissistic twink
guitarists like arto lindsay will always be more exciting than ones like matteo mancuso. ur playing an electric instrument with the capacity to create such a vast palette of noise and ppl will call u a bad guitarist for not using that instrument to exclusively play scale runs
I'm so convinced that 80% of people who glaze 69 Love Songs have not suffered through the entire album. The amount of half thought out, lazy, and incredibly mid, ugly songs is astounding. There's a disk's worth of excellent stuff and then 40ish misses.