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A new double-CD by the Nels Cline Singers:

Nels Cline: guitars
Devin Hoff: drums
Scott Amendola: drums

A fine mix of listenable and experimental stuff. A good entry for new free-guitar fans.
Highly recommended !

review

the nels cline singers

nels cline

Les Oiseaux de Céleste Boursier-Mougenot found on WFMU's Beware of the blog !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg&feature=player_embedded

Extensive article about Eivind Aarset on allaboutjazz.com:

Aarset

There is also one track for free, if you sign up !

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Wonderful solo-recording by Nels Cline ! You can listen to the whole thing here at lastfm:

coward

here is a review at allaboutjazz:

review

and one on allmusic:

allmusic

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Recommended !

here is the second volume:

http://rapidshare.com/files/127153117/guitarnoises_II.zip

enjoy the music and support the artists !!

Over the last year I collected interesting videos from youtube - here is a player where you can watch them all ( some of them I have already mentioned)

Have a look !

free-guitar video-blog

derek bailey
fred frith
eugene chadbourne
kevin drumm
paolo angeli
paul metzger
der rote bereich
tetuzi akiyama
arthur kampela
trey gunn
alex machacek
arthur henry fork
fennesz
oren ambarchi
robert fripp
manuel mota
greg malcolm
otomo yoshihide
john russell
mark stewart
UMEZU KAZUTOKI
rod poole
keith rowe
luca formentini
nels clineMattias Eklundh

As a celebration of one year free-guitar I have uploaded a personal compilation called:

Guitarnoises-Noiseguitars

of some of my favourite guitar-tracks

You can find it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/79721427/guitarnoises.zip

Its around 88 mb. There are three of them compilated over the last year. Feel free to share it and enjoy the sounds !

Fred FrithHans TammenJoe SachseAndreas WillersJimi HendrixSonny SharrockHans ReichelAivind AarsetPat MethenyOrnette ColemanLeo BrouwerRalph TownerJohn Abercrombie

I found some interesting videos from guitar players related to free guitar. The visual impression seems important to me because of the different "treatments" of the guitars and the special concentration of the artist accompanying the act of free improvisation.

In the first post I will include only solo performances.

The first one should be - of course - Derek Bailey:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4P5raW49kQM

Fred Frith:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BuZMH0nLOcQ

Eugene Chadbourne
(" A direct threat to the american way of life" Ronald Reagan)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c7EkokES6Gw

Keith Rowe - The " Tabletop Guitarist"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnUVpiFHhmM

Otomo Yoshihide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-DXwxKlE2I

Robert Fripp "Frippertronics"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klnog_IKzTM

Oren Ambarchi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQuWYCzTIh0

Greg Malcolm…

On the amazing Ubuweb you can watch and download TV films produced by Derek Bailey. Here is what they say about it:

Derek Bailey (1930-2005)

A series of four 55 minute films shown on Channel 4 TV in the UK in early 1992. To say this was the best and most intelligent analysis of improvisation to be screened on UK television is probably unnecessary: it has in all likelihood been the only televised programme on this form of music-making. Written and narrated by Derek Bailey, produced and directed by Jeremy Marr, it developed out of the first edition of Bailey's…

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here are more links related to the group. Some are already mentioned in the forum but I think its good to have them in one entry. Some are new. Thanks to all the members who posted new links and added new guitarplayers !! There are more of them out there than I have expected !

I. Interview with Derek Bailey on KPFM (with Henry Kaiser 1):

Bailey Interview

II. Company-Recordings with Bailey and Steve Lacy, Han Benning, Anthony Braxton and others. Recommended !

Bailey & Others

III. A complete set of Outtakes with Henry Kaiser and bert Switzer

Kaiser…