The Communion Label
Idyll Swords : II (US,2000)****
This is a splendid release completely based upon multi-acoustic guitar playing in a somewhat improvisational fingerpicking style with semi-or faux-ethnomusicological meanderings, moving from middle eastern tuning to western tuning, brilliantly moving and descriptive, mixed just a few times with a few field recordings, with an Indian-like experimental drone, and a few experimental African tuning-like pickings. Two tracks have additional cello. Beside normal acoustic guitars, the picking also comes from baglama saz, sitar-guitar, oud, the ruan (the Chinese “moon-guitar) and the cumbus (a kind of banjo-like Turkish oud). For the mentioned drone was used the Indian tambura. Also the Indian veena was used somewhere in the recording.
