Glenn Kimpton

Like Toby Hay’s ‘Morning / Evening Raga’ album, Home Recordings Vol 1 is instrumental guitar music at its purest and there is much beauty in its simplicity and control.

Bill Mackay and Nathan Bowles ‘Keys’ was an album we were excited about and it delivers at every turn. An engaging album with a glorious set of instrumentals and sang numbers. Plus new video ‘Dowsing’.

“I didn’t want to do just a guitar record.” – ‘Kissing Rosy in the Rain’ is one of those recordings that just stays with you and makes you want to find out more about it and the people who made it, so we did just that.

The first release on Ryley Walker’s new Husky Pants label is a live jam between Ryley’s four-piece band and the Japanese psych-prog five-piece Kikagaku Moyo which has become a Bandcamp best seller – a free-spirited blast of tightly played, highly creative music.

Dense without being heavy, intelligent without being esoteric, this is elegant, nuanced music that has been finely crafted and richly woven. Unsung is a quite remarkable album.

Every note that Mason Lindahl plays on here counts and can be heard; there is a quiet strength and boldness to the music that makes it so effective. Kissing Rosy in the Rain is fantastic – Lindahl has explored the limitations and boundaries of instrumental guitar music and created something fresh and vital.

Many heavyweights feature on Daniel Hecht’s musical timeline, but his 1973 debut album, simply titled Guitar, is still arguably the finest example of his talents – an enthralling, highly creative and timeless debut.

On ‘In the Furrows of Common Place’, Jim Ghedi brings focus to unrest, land enclosure and austerity. It is a stunning and remarkable album with bags of passion, creativity and precision from the always fascinating Ghedi.

Glenn Kimpton shares his Top 10 Albums of 2020 including Nick Jonah Davis, Sally Anne Morgan, Cynefin, JR Samuels, Bill Callahan, Sarah Louise, Martin Kirkegaard, Buck Curran, Gwenifer Raymond and more.

Steffen’s “The Dancer on the Hill” is an album that will demand to be listened to many times. Once the final notes of the beautiful closer drift away, you will want to go straight back to the beginning.

Gwenifer Raymond’s ‘Strange Lights over Garth Mountain’ feels like a huge leap forward from her debut. Daring and complex it highlights the progressive nature of Raymond’s playing perfectly.

There is something pure and beautiful about ‘Home Recordings’ that finely balances and sets it apart from any other Martin Simpson album I can think of. A wonderful achievement and gratefully received.