James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg’s All Gist Is Out Today
Photo by Joan Shelley.
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg’s All Gist, the long awaited follow-up to 2015’s Ambsace (PoB-021), is out today, streaming and in shops worldwide. As they titled the penultimate song, “All Gist Could Be Yours”!
James and Nathan’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.” Read more about the album here.
Check out what the New York Times has to say about album opener “Death Wishes to Kill” here and read a longform, wide-ranging interview with the artists at Aquarium Drunkard.
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It’s an album full of gorgeously interlocking guitars, bewitching melodies and a couple of curveball covers. More than anything, All Gist sounds like a conversation between two old friends — one that we’re all lucky we get to eavesdrop on. – Aquarium Drunkard
An entrancing, varied record. – Uncut
Just lovely. In this third album of guitar duets, James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg perform a complicated sort of dance, their separate instruments executing, light and agile motifs, sometimes in concord, other times slightly out of sync … Though some of the songs have a twinge of melancholy, most of them explode with joy. Their two instruments chase each other like dogs at happy play. — Dusted
The quality of the music, the patience of its build-up and the confidence in its unshowy execution illustrate the strengths of both musicians. Both James and Nathan are known for putting out intelligent, thought-provoking music, and All Gist is the finest example of their skills as a duo so far—a wonderfully soothing recording of top-level musicianship. – KLOF
Their melody-first sensibilities are perfectly suited to each other … playfully complex guitar work that sounds as if it was tossed off in an afternoon of whiskey and laughs. – NPR
