busking in Birmingham on a sunday afternoon

For years I've practised alone - in my car, most recently in my garage. Last year I played at several parties on Reunion Island and was very thankful for the positive response. After all I only improvize and I never play anyone else's music so when I play I am exposing my soul

I write this post with a heavy heart as yesterday I summoned the courage to play in public and I played for nearly an hour - some dazzling stuff - and I got nothing. Not a penny.

What can a man do. Give up? After 25 years of playing... No. Put it down to a bad day at the office. Have to

Anyway I just had to write about this - here on my blog that no-one reads. What an invisible life I lead

trance guitar from Kuganuma beach, Japan

Check out this trance guitar from Kuganuma beach, Japan - recorded live with my drummer - the Club

trance guitar from Chaouen

Wrote this this trance guitar way back in my 20's when I was back packing around Morocco - recorded it 10 years later in Japan - this fragment is all I've got left - I lost most of my tapes and possessions after taking 3 hits of acid on a beach near Yokohama one night - I fell off the planet for a few years after that and ended up in a mental institution - all water under the bridge now and I've been off the medication for over a decade and somehow even got myself a family. Just shows - you stay alive long enough and all things pass...

trance guitar - the car sessions

So here is a small collection of trance guitar that I recorded in October 2011 - it's trance guitar stripped to the bone - guitar played as a trance-percussive instrument and treading the line between noise and harmonics - no melody just rythym - please feel free to comment - I'll keep doing this whatever but I'd like to know whether I'm considered completely insane to be exploring the guitar in this way

Primevil trance guitar

Recorded in Japan in my really whacked-out period - pics from India and Uzbekistan -

Trance Guitar Movie 2

Here is another short movie with a trance guitar sound track. I recorded this way back before the kids were born when we were living in Summertown in Oxford. It was actually the last time I did any recording using mixers etc - once the kids arrive there's just no time any more. Then my mixer got stolen when we moved house later on and so these days all I can do is play live to a digital camera - which is the format of most of my posts - but there is still plenty of archive trance guitar material like this that I want to publish

The pics are from Lake street in Oxford - where we lived when Ilvira was pregnant with Edith

Enjoy - and please leave a comment if you feel like it

Trance Guitar Forever!

Cheers

Trance guitar movie

Yeah it's not very long - let me know what you think

It's the intro from a trance guitar song I recorded way back -

The pics are of my wife -

More soon