Solo Guitar

by Derek Bailey

Solo Guitar cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Incus
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 18:48
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Solo Guitar' captures the uncompromising and revolutionary approach of the British guitarist. Serving as a seminal document in the realm of free improvisation, the recording features atonal, pointillistic guitar work that entirely discards traditional melody and rhythm.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, improvisation, avant-garde, atonal, minimalistic, unaccompanied-solo, experimental, improvised

Tracklist

  1. Improvisation 4 (2:02)
  2. Improvisation 5 (7:50)
  3. Improvisation 6 (5:37)
  4. Improvisation 7 (3:19)
  5. Where Is The Police?
  6. Christiani Eddy
  7. The Squirrel And The Ricketty-Racketty Bridge

Credits

  • Derek Bailey - primary artist, guitar, synthesizer [vcs3]
  • Misha Mengelberg - written-by
  • Willem Breuker - written-by
  • Gavin Bryars - written-by

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