#73: Program #73

The incredibly gifted and astonishingly avant-folk guitarist Michael Hedges left the planet much too soon in 1997. He made brilliant music with alternate tunings, incorporating harmonics and was known for striking the guitar’s body and strings with his fingers, palms and knuckles. Hedges' close friend and sometime collaborator, electric bass virtuoso Michael Manring, was a genre-bender, before music writers ever discovered that hyphenated term. He started out in the New Age bins, but moved all over with various projects, including the very first New Age-death-metal-jazz-funk-fusion record, among other things, with his “hyperbass”, (a fretless instrument which makes re-tuning mid-piece a little easier). For this From the Vaults edition of New Sounds from October 10, 1987, the two artists visited and played at the WNYC performance studios.

PROGRAM # 73, With guests Michael Manring and Michael Hedges (10/10/1987)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Michael Hedges	The Shape of the Land	Because It's There	Windham Hill Records WH 1055. Out of print, but try Amazon.com
	Live performances	Silent Anticipation Aerial Boundaires	Not commercially available.
	Aerial Boundaries	Spare Change	Windham Hill #1032, www.windham.com
Michael Manring	Unusual Weather	Welcoming	Windham Hill #1044. Out of print.
	Live performance	Longair Mobile	Not commercially available.
	Unusual Weather	Thunder Tactics	See above.
	Live performance	Thunder Tactics, solo	Not commercially available.
Michael Hedges with Michael Manring	Aerial Boundaries	After the Gold Rush	See above.

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