Guitarists

A highly atmospheric ambient guitar soundtrack with sharp edges and a sense of brooding melancholy, award nominated composer Andrew Phillips's score for the BBC's acclaimed adaptation of JG Ballard's short story 'The Enormous Space' (broadcast as 'Home') gets a welcome release via the Burning Shed download store.

Renowned Pedal Steel player Bruce Kaphan's first solo release, Slider, comprises a graceful collection of Ambient instrumentals that provide a perfect showcase for the unique and sensitively dexterous abilities of this in-demand former member of American Music Club.

Bruce's enviable CV also includes sessions for REM, Red House Painters, David Byrne and No-Man.

"this record is amazing" - Peter Buck (R.E.M.)

"bewitching" - Rolling Stone

Fifth and most accomplished album from Tony Harn includes twelve diverse and colourful pieces created using looping techniques. Featuring rich instrumentation and intoxicating atmospheres, the experimental nature of such a project is balanced with trademark accessibility. Initial copies have a bonus thirteenth track.

The debut solo CD from guitarist Andy Butler showcases an accomplished and mature talent. Utilising Echoplex looping systems, the highly structured and composed pieces were recorded in real time, with no subsequent overdubs added.

Occasionally recalling the experimental solo guitar work of Phil Manzanera, Robert Fripp and Andy Summers, as well as drawing on complex gamelan rhythms, Butler's intriguing compositions avoid much of the improvised indulgence associated with the contemporary looping scene.

'Butterflies, Zebras & Moonbeams' is an unpredictable and playfully ambitious double album from the trio of Tim Motzer (Nine Horses, Ursula Rucker), Eliie Perez and Barry Meehan, which inventively combines elements of Jazz, Ambient, Trip-Hop, Psychedelic Folk and Bossa-Nova in sensitive and unexpected ways.

'A masterpiece that sets up us nicely for the third coming of Portishead later this year. The new-jazz lizard lounge sound.' - Straight No Chaser

One of Nosound's more eclectic releases, 'Clouds' is a 3 track EP of exclusive, new, material recorded during the sessions for the band's forthcoming album, 'Lightdark'. This download Includes printable artwork.

'Slow, It Goes' is a quality 'official bootleg' recording taken from Nosound's gig at Stazione Birra, Rome in January of 2007.

The album comprises the whole of the second set from that evening, with the band playing very different interpretations of tracks from their celebrated debut release, 'Sol29'. This download Includes printable artwork.

Rich, meditative and cohesive, The Fourth Night is a highly accomplished debut release which provides an ideal example of Zurich-based Bernhard Wagner's focused eclecticism.

Treated textures collide with ascending Minimalist pulses to create an unexpected and highly atmospheric collaboration between Burning Shed’s innovative guitarist-in-residence, Michael Bearpark, and German Swiss looping guitarist Bernhard Wagner. The album is packaged in a stunning Carl Glover sleeve.