#4642, From the New York Guitar Festival 2022, Part 2
From the 2022 New York Guitar Festival at The Greene Space, listen to virtuosic fire from guitarist and composer Vernon Reid together with Laraaji on zither and electronics and the “American primitive” stylings of Glenn Jones on both guitar and banjo.
Adept at metal, funk and jazz, Vernon Reid gained fame as the main songwriter for the rock band Living Colour, and as a founder of the Black Rock Coalition. Joining Vernon, and crashing this year’s guitar festival is the innovative ambient zither player and electronic musician Laraaji, who is also part of Brian Eno’s groundbreaking Ambient Music series back in 1981. The two improvise a cosmic and breathtaking set together.
Although he has a background in rock and experimental music, fingerstyle guitarist Glenn Jones is best known as a keeper of the flame of “American Primitive,” the folk-based style associated with the 20th century guitarist John Fahey. With a variety of tunings, capos, and even specially-made half-capos, Jones’s country-blues music is full of unexpected textures. He plays new works from his 2022 record, Vade Mecum, in The Greene Space. – John Schaefer
Program #4642, from the NYGF 2022 (First aired 7/14/22)
ARTIST: Vernon Reid and Laraaji
WORK: Improvisation, with quote from The Tempest [1:12]
RECORDING: NYGF 2022 in The Greene Space
SOURCE: thegreenespace.org/watch/badi-assad-vernon-reid-and-laraaji-2
INFO: twitter.com/vurnt22 | laraajimusic.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Vernon Reid and Laraaji
WORK: Improvisation [13:48]
RECORDING: NYGF 2022 in The Greene Space
SOURCE: thegreenespace.org/watch/badi-assad-vernon-reid-and-laraaji-2
INFO: twitter.com/vurnt22 | laraajimusic.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Glenn Jones
WORK: Vade Mecum [3:46]
RECORDING: NYGF 2022 in The Greene Space
SOURCE: thegreenespace.org/watch/vieux-farka-toure-glenn-jones
INFO: Vade Mecum is out now on Thrill Jockey Records
ARTIST: Glenn Jones
WORK: Black & White and Gray [5:13]
RECORDING: NYGF 2022 in The Greene Space
SOURCE: thegreenespace.org/watch/vieux-farka-toure-glenn-jones
INFO: Vade Mecum is out now on Thrill Jockey Records
ARTIST: Glenn Jones
WORK: Ruthie's Farewell [3:04]
RECORDING: NYGF 2022 in The Greene Space
SOURCE: thegreenespace.org/watch/vieux-farka-toure-glenn-jones
INFO: Vade Mecum is out now on Thrill Jockey Records
ARTIST: Vernon Reid and Laraaji
WORK: Improvisation [13:07]
RECORDING: NYGF 2022 in The Greene Space
SOURCE: thegreenespace.org/watch/badi-assad-vernon-reid-and-laraaji-2
INFO: twitter.com/vurnt22 | laraajimusic.bandcamp.com
