Liam Grant is a New England guitarist and improviser cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue, Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Max Ochs and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
Bridging that past Grant evokes the pith of the landscape where he was raised. Instrumental memoirs and ruminations on the banks of the Merrimack River. Amoskeag. And the place where the waters flow around it. Salmon tails up the river, the exodus to Stratton-Eustis and the last night on Dead River before the great flood.
Sam Boston is from Connecticut. He builds instruments, tools, and sound sculptures. His focus is on resonating objects, long-duration events, and attempts at repetition.
His latest concentration has been self-modified electric 2x4 duo-chord hurdy gurdies and handmade fretless lap steel guitars - instruments he has built for musicians like Tashi Dorji, Henry Birdsey, Zach Rowden and others.
He frequently works alongside his partner Emma Mistele with whom he recorded his last album “Table Music” - pieces for an unstable network of oscillators, microphones, and motors resonating through the table on which they were performed.