The Art Of Modern/Primitive Guitar

Shawn Persinger's The Art Of Modern/Primative Guitar has been receiving an amazing amount of critical and popular acclaim. Within four months after its release the new disc was being hailed as one of the most interesting and unique acoustic guitar records to come along in many years. It has been called as original and creative as Leo Kottke's "Six and Twelve String Guitar" and Michael Hedges' "Arial Boundaries", two benchmarks of fingerstyle guitar. Modern/Primitive Guitar is a style of guitar music that is the aural equivalent of the visual Modern/Primitive art form explored and developed by such painters as: Jean DuBuffet, Joan Miro?, Pablo Picasso, William Henry Johnson, Paul Klee and Karl Appel. All of these artists were highly skilled yet worked with a more visceral approach, technique and vision. The same attitude and ideas are found in the Modern/Primitive Guitar style. Sonically, M/P Guitar combines the radical musical styles of avant-garde musicians such as Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith and John Zorn with the more traditional leanings of guitarists such as Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges and Larry Coryell.