Stylish fingerstyle guitarist from Sweden
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Length: 03:30
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With 181st Songs, Sweden's Jimmy Wahlsteen has produced a pristine CD of finger-style guitar. He's got all the post-Michael Hedges guitar techniques down cold and weds them to melodic compositions and subtle arrangements on this impressive debut album that immediately propels him to the forefront of finger-style guitarists.
It's part of Echo Location: Soundings for New Music, the weekly digest from Echoes host and Peabody Award winning producer John Diliberto, exploring the latest in modern music with quick hitting interviews, music and commentary.
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With 181st Songs, Sweden's Jimmy Wahlsteen has produced a pristine CD of finger-style guitar. He's got all the post-Michael Hedges guitar techniques down cold and weds them to melodic compositions and subtle arrangements on this impressive debut album that immediately propels him to the forefront of finger-style guitarists.
It's part of Echo Location: Soundings for New Music, the weekly digest from Echoes host and Peabody Award winning producer John Diliberto, exploring the latest in modern music with quick hitting interviews, music and commentary.
Broadcast History
WXPN Philadelphia and WITF Harrisburg
Transcript
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On the cover of his debut album, 181st Songs, Jimmy Wahlsteen seems too stylish to be a finger-style guitar slinger. Going for GQ poses and an androgynous look doesn't sit with the usual grizzled or blandly clean-cut anti-image approach that characterizes most acoustic guitar players. But then, you hear the impressive technique and realize he isn't like a lot of guitar players anyway.
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JIMMY WALHSTEEN HAS all the post-Michael Hedges guitar approaches down, including two-handed tapping,
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playing percussion on his guitar.
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AND GENERALLY TURNING HIS INSTRUMENT INTO AN ORCHESTRA.
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The swedish born musicians grew up as a fan of Kiss, has spent the first part of his young career playing on pop music sessions in Sweden. That might be why he brings a keen melodic ear and arranging sensibility to his music. A song like "Suff...
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Timing and Cues
Incue: [sonar sound] This is an Echo Location: Soundings for New Music.
Outcue: I’m John Diliberto and this has been an Echo Location, soundings for new music.
