I wrote Halfzware in 2010 and the title is taken from the cut of the Drum cigarette tobacco I loved back when I was an avid smoker. It’s Dutch for “half heavy”. I’ve done this tune in a ton of different formats from a trio to a seventeen piece big band arrangement. It’s as close as I can get to exotica. For Cantrip it became a suite: the original song, a free solo section, and a blues that devolves and dissolves. If you listen closely you can hear me playing piano in 1989.
Prana Crafter’s “Bodhi Cheetah’s Choice” is an album of mystic, drifting guitar work alternately haunting and searing. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 8, 2018
This compilation of songs from cult legend Jay Bolotin has the same stark beauty as prime Leonard Cohen and Jackson C. Frank. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 1, 2018
Soulful guitar interplay form the heart of this lovely Americana collaboration from Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 2, 2018