Alan Sparhawk – Solo Guitar
Solo Guitar is the album length debut from Alan Sparhawk of the minimalist-indie-pop band Low. Listeners expecting the rock & roll element Sparhawk’s recently become known for with the Black-Eyed Snakes will be surprise to hear guitar exploration in the vein of “Do You Know How to Waltz?” or “Will the Night.” Guitar sounds influenced by underground stars like Aarktica & Reynols as well as guitar heroes like Eddie Van Halen. File under post rock, guitarscapes, ambient, drone, avant garde.
1 How the Weather Comes Over the Central Hillside (1:46) 2 Sagrado Corazón de Jesú (First Attempt) (1:12) 3 Sagrado Corazón de Jesú (Second Attempt) (13:26) 4 How a Freighter Comes into the Harbor (17:53) 5 How the Weather Hits the Freighter… (1:52) 6 …in the Harbor (0:39) 7 How the Engine Room Sounds (2:49) 8 Eruption by Eddie Van Halen (2:36) 9 How It Ends (0:55)