NEWMAN, HARRIS / MAURO ANTONIO PAWLOWSKI - HARRIS NEWMAN / MAURO ANTONIO PAWLOWSKI (LP - USED m-/m-)

"Belgian CDR label Glasvocht's first vinyl offering is an odd, and often gorgeous glimpse into the minds of two very distinct acoustic guitar artisans, Harris Newman and Mauro Antonio Pawlowski. Newman's numerous instrumental releases have attracted consistent praise from countless journalists over the last several years. Like fellow contemporary acoustic-guitar masters James Blackshaw and Jack Rose, Newman's musical efforts have been compared, quite favorably, to the seminal work of the late "American Primitive" acoustic-guitar-deity, John Fahey. Unlike Newman, Pawlowski seems intent on presenting more challenging work. Knots of rusty, out-of-tune, shrill guitars carve their way through the split's B side. Amplified acoustic and electric guitars fill the sound-stage, but Pawlowski's sound is world's from Newman's ambient adorned finger-picking acoustics, instead favoring a chaotic, nervous spazz-jam. Improvisation is clearly a big part of Pawloski's work here; each song sounds like the barely coherent scribblings of an over-medicated schizophrenic hipster." (Foxy Digitalis)