The Naive Shaman

by Richard Youngs

The Naive Shaman cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 September 2005
  • Label: Jagjaguwar
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 40:14
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The prolific British avant-garde musician presents a deeply meditative set of sprawling acoustic compositions. Utilizing cyclical guitar patterns and his soaring, vibrato-rich vocal tenor, the minimalist tracks function as hypnotic modern folk mantras that gradually induce a trance-like state in the listener.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, acoustic, male-vocals, droning, experimental, long-form

Tracklist

  1. Life On A Beam (5:10)
  2. Illumined Land (5:21)
  3. Sonar In My Soul (9:47)
  4. Once It Was Autumn (3:33)
  5. Summer's Edge II (16:23)

Credits

  • Richard Youngs - primary artist, music by, words by, instruments [all], voice [voices]
  • Norifumi Shimogawa - other [cover star]

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