The following video was put together by the Harmonic Rooms who have had their finger on the alternative music pulse for a number of years now. C Joynes is an English acoustic guitarist based in Cambridge, he has a heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste.
You can buy his music through the Bo’Weavil Label
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