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Killick- 38-string harp guitar
What does music for 38-string harp guitar sound like? There are liner notes by the artist (who recorded the album and did the artwork), but I couldn’t make much out of them. I couldn’t read most of the song titles because of the maybe-too-artistic way they fade into the dark background. A homemade project to be sure, but that’s of course part of the fun. The harp guitar solos (all live) are a challenge to describe. At times they sound like an impossibly nimble conventional acoustic guitar, at others times a tiny gamelan orchestra. And on the opener a bunch of giant, hungry throbbing wires about to devour you. On another track like a creature that lets its stomach boom repeatedly, vaguely like frogs. These solos might as well be a collection of not-necessarily-related instruments, all of which are new (or at least newish) in their array of sounds. Recommended for fans of the newly-created instrument genre and adventurous string instrument listeners.
Richard Grooms