Bill Nace: Solo Guitar 2/One Note (Open Mouth)

From the one-sheet:

“One Note (Solo Guitar 2) was recorded by Bill Nace in 2008 in a good-sounding room in Bennington, Vermont. This […] is a reissue with its mysterious and (maybe?) long-lost sibling Solo Guitar 1 […]

There are moments where that Bennington room sounds as sterile and lonely as a deserted art gallery. And then it becomes spacious and warm, like a cathedral filling with the hum of the universe. […] As he takes a series of unlikely tools across his prone guitar with the grace and urgency of someone at a loom or an aircraft control panel, there's a sense of reaching inward. But where some might meander or navel-gaze, Bill's playing is a process of constant dynamic construction. What unfurls can feel intensely personal, and often -- for reasons I don't always understand -- very moving. Bill isn't interested in micromanaging his listeners' experiences, but he does make room for us […]

But, in a truly punk fashion, he flips this for the listener, making unfamiliar and not-very-subtle noise into something akin to (but also distinct from) familiar sounds: traffic outside your window, the soft roar of a conch shell to your ear, static between radio stations. Solo Guitar 2, full as it is of shades and moods and life, offers a fresh way of hearing.” --Margaret Welsh Philadelphia, PA 2021