James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg’s All Gist, the long awaited follow-up to 2015’s Ambsace, is out today, streaming and in shops worldwide. As they titled the penultimate song, “All Gist Could Be Yours”!
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg release “Death Wishes to Kill,” the second single off their forthcoming and third album of guitar duets, All Gist, out April 12th via Paradise of Bachelors. “Death Wishes to Kill” follows the release of the duo’s acoustic version of Neneh Cherry’s “Buffalo Stance,” which “cleverly builds on the guitar licks that propel the original, and trades Cherry’s dance floor rhythm for a toe-tapping country swing” (WNYC’s New Sounds).
The duo’s album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pieces is a fascinating array of covers, ranging from traditional Breton dance tunes to a deconstruction of Neneh Cherry’s monumental “Buffalo Stance,” which you can hear today.
It’s Bandcamp Friday, and we have five new surprise songs for you, in the form of two digital singles from Red River Dialect (Overabundance) and James Elkington (Beechwood Park/Corridor Country). Bandcamp is once again waiving its revenue share today, July 3, and we will do the same for all other digital Bandcamp sales, passing proceeds along to artists.
The Beechwood Park/Corridor Country single follows James Elkington’s 2020 full-length album Ever-Roving Eye (PoB-050) and includes one studio outtake from that acclaimed album as well as a cover of the Zombies classic. Both “Park” and “Country” are performed in solo settings.
We’re thrilled to partner with our friends at Uncut Magazine on a series of lockdown sessions with James Elkington, Itasca, Jake Xerxes Fussell, and Michael Chapman. All four artists have taped the sessions live from their respective lockdown retreats, exclusively for Uncut.
Today, Ever-Roving Eye, the great new record by James Elkington (and Uncut’s Album of the Month, “an outstanding record from a humble collaborator”), is available digitally and via direct orders from our webstore and Bandcamp. The physical album will be out in record stores and via other mailorders on May 22.
Today—which is just another day and also, somehow, the edge of a dark precipice—Nap Eyes release their beautiful new record Snapshot of a Beginner into the world. It’s a record that asks deceptively big questions in deceptively small ways, which is a scale we need now.
In which the homie Brad Labelle, distinguished Nap Eyes shredder and lovely guy, discusses his favorite guitar solos, among which is mentor/producer/colleague James Elkington’s solo from “Late Jim’s Lament:
“His solo here is probably the best acoustic guitar solo I’ve ever heard. He’s an endlessly inspiring musician/person and I’m honored to have him as a mentor. You can also catch him ripping it up live in the Jeff Tweedy band.”
“Late Jim’s Lament” is a white-knuckled nightmare about being late (because he’s rarely on time) and about being “late” (because of an even greater fear of being dead before he gets everything done). The beguiling video, directed by Timothy Musho, was inspired by surrealism and stop motion classics of Jan Svankmajer and Terry Gilliam.
