Well, this is really great: youtu.be/kv-CR8_xAN0?...

Strongly considering taking a break from this place and other social media platforms. I like to read all ya folk's posts, but I'm tired of sharing & I'm not really interested in it as I've been. No guitar playing posts either, as I'm simply not interested in playing guitar at the moment.

Maybe I'm just in a weird melancholic mood these days, but I listened to Fennesz' Bécs earlier today and tracks like Liminality and the title track hit me deep, for real - like this fusion of pop melody & grandiouse noise was just the best music in the world.

It may sound weird, but sometimes I miss the freedom of not owning & buying a lot of records. I mean I love music & records, but it has become an addiction & it's not like I want to stream instead. Just romanticizing the time where I didn't have any money to buy records & didn't have the addiction.

There is a great new interview with Jim O'Rourke on Youtube. Still a mystery to me how he perceives some parts of his own music & agenda.Now listening to this album-one I regard as rather foundational for my own listening habits & perspectives on music/improvisation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaQ...

Last album before going to sleep. Just perfect. robinguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/anothe...

Papir's "Jams" was released on this day 5 years ago. What I personally like about this record is the fact that we literally released the pure jams with all their raw energy & limitations, cause jamming was always part of the band's praxis.

Weirdly enough it has taken me some years & maybe some maturing too to warm up to some of the classic Stereolab albums. But without hesitation I now count myself as a fan & I think this album is absolutely brilliant. Great music for this time of the year also.

Watched an interview with my old guitar teacher where he talks about the importance of "the intention" when improvising...and I suddenly realized that I don't know what he means. The intention is to do it or? I feel kind of stupid.

Probably the last video from this short guitar noodling+backtrack adventure. It got boring pretty fast, guess I wanted to test if I could play in this guitar instruction style, which I could & couldn't. My heart is not in it, just a lot of notes floating around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK4X...

So I guess noodling around to these basic backtracks is my new thing. Not that any special music or thought provoking art necessarily comes out of it, but it seems to be a nice way to connect with this guitar that I have now played for almost exactly 25 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZXH...

It's nothing new, but I get more & more convinced that a lot of really good albums might not instantly reward you on the first listens, not even on the first tracks, but they do reward you on an expanded & deeper level/draw you into it's profound essence if you stay open, hang on & keep listening.

When I was very young I would often dream of becoming a session guitarist playing a lot of pop rock tunes on television. That didn't happen, fortunately a lot of more exciting stuff happened instead. But maybe I still have a chance of making it as pop rock guitarist? www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzln...

In relation to what I wrote yesterday. Tower Recordings seemed to embody a parallel universe, an important perspective on (underground) music in the 1990s, which probably goes for the whole praxis of Siltbreeze in that decade.

Been feeling stressed for awhile. Can't figure out why. Today I suddenly felt extremely tired in the middle of the day for no reason. Vacation is not easy for some reason, although I don't miss my job either. Now listening to this album, which is nice: universallight.bandcamp.com/album/univer...

One of the things that connects some of my favorite bands/artists - Tower Recordings, Dead C, Charalambides, Bardo Pond, Jandek, Sunburned Hand of The Man, Roy Montgomery just to name a few, is the fact that their music transport you to the other side of reality,

Saturday listening. Billow Observatory - II:Plains/Patterns and Auburn Lull - Hypha. Starting the day with some great ones from Denmark's finest ambient/electronic/blissed-out-sounds record label.

Vacation is nice, but slightly weird if you don't have any specific plans & don't feel like having plans. I tend to get stuck in thoughts and emptiness, but a way to break out of the patterns for a while, besides some long walks is to make a guitar piece, which I just did.

Okay, so here I am supposedly playing jazz guitar. The rhythmic timing could be better, my soul seems gone and I am probably not good enough for playing classy restaurant gigs yet, but yeah "I did it". youtube.com/watch?v=eum01juqN3c&feature=youtu.be

I had a sudden thought that I might start practicing jazz guitar again. Sat down & tried/failed to play & improvise over a jazz standard only to realize that I had no clue what the real goal for practicing this was.Started playing these other more basic chords & some noodling instead & it felt okay.

Easter pile. Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect, Sam Prekop - Open Close, Mahogany - The Dream of a Modern Day, Windy & Carl - Songs For the Broken Hearted. Unsure how any of these albums are related to Easter, but this is so far what I'm listening to on this Holy Thursday.

Random guitar playing over two chords, whatever.

To be honest, I don't think my relation to music is very intellectual at all. There is a lot of music, which I read about or listen to that is perceived as "difficult" or "not very accessible" or whatever & I listen to it just to zone out. Not that there is anything special about that of course.

I don't believe music is about genres. Only if you want it to be. I believe in what I hear, which is that there are certain kinds of music/artists that embody a truth about "this music is what it is" - a direct expression of an inner abstract impulse.

Random guitar playing for a Friday evening

My neighbours came home at 4 am and have been talking/rambling for 8 hours straight since. Happens every other day here. It's not that it is forbidden, but wtf is going on with people.

Music for a Wednesday afternoon. AMM – The Crypt - 12th June 1968. Diving into this cult classic for a minute. If one hasn't heard this live documentation before or just hasn't heard music/improvisation that sounds like this before, it may come off as rather outrageous on the first listens, but

Some random improv/noodling

Six records from the first quarter of 2026 that I've been enjoying: Drew Gardner - Wave Field Isabel Pine - Fables Wet Tuna - Vast Pullman - III Early Music - Old Strings Loren Connors & Alessandra Novaga - Live at Issue Project Room

Today's guitar piece

Happy 4th anniversary to this release. My first pure solo-guitar release. Tracks taken from the first solo live performances I ever did. I haven't really listened to it in a long time, but it's probably okay. Definitely me in those moments in time. auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/l-i-v-...

I was just thinking earlier that what I like about playing music is well...doing it. The process of exploring through playing. Not necessarily making plans/following thoughts,not working on something for long, but more like being in it, always on some level in some context, when it is needed or not.

Some Loren Connors for my Tuesday afternoon. Pure & raw expression/expressivity within the context of music & sound can seem like a vague myth of pretentiousness. But in the case of Loren Connors' music it is the embodiment of physical & spiritual reality in one. It's another game.

Listening to Richard Youngs' "Advent" on a Monday. I can still get blown away by this singular vision of minimalism+ avant-improv-something. This is the vinyl reissue, but I first heard it on CD twenty years ago or so, when I bought it on a trip to Toronto not knowing anything about RY back then.

Today's guitar piece

Tired hands and tired mind playing something with two chords/whatever

Apropos of nothing. Found an old clip from the last time I played an outdoor solo gig nearly 6 years ago. Wind was caugth in the microphone & the audience was probably mildly bored as I tried to zone out & in on certain moods. There was one (bad) review & I ended up releasing most of it on cassette.

Today's guitar piece. Kind of Jim O'Rourke-inspired I guess. youtube.com/watch?v=h9y-ZiffUwo&feature=youtu.be

Starting the day with two classics. Windy & Carl's "Consciousness" and "Future Days" by Can. What do these two classics have in common? Well,one thing they have in common, at least the way I hear it, is that they are both albums I will never get tired of listening to. Perfect records for a Sunday.

Saturday listening. Grails - The Burden of Hope. The weird thing is that I saw Grails live in Copenhagen maybe 20 years ago & remember being very impressed back then, but didn't bother to check out their records. But now is apparently the time. Where in their discography should I go after this?

I have never really been able to move anywhere with pure abstract guitar sounds myself, but I'm eternally fascinated by those who can take you somewhere with abstraction, space & emotion. If you consider buying something on Bandcamp Friday, I recommend this: alara-music.bandcamp.com/album/loren-...

Does anyone know of a clip or a song where Dave Pajo is playing a real guitar solo? He is such an accomplished guitarist who could probably play anything, but it always seems to me that he actively kept away from playing guitar solos, which is fine too of course. I'm just curious.

Today's piece www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8F1...

Evening listening. John Cale & Terry Riley - Church Of Anthrax This is one of those albums that could have been a near masterpiece, if the B-side was on par with the A-side. It's still pretty good, but the tracks on the A-side are the ones that really stand out as something unique at least for me.

Evening listening. Drew Gardner - Wave Field. This new Drew Gardner LP sounds super great as expected. Really cool jams executed by these top jam musicians.

Early unplugged jamming

The last record for today before I go to sleep: alara-music.bandcamp.com/album/loren-...

This album came out 10 years ago today. My first solo album. Not literally a solo album as my friends in Papir play on most of the tracks and I got a lot of help and ideas from my friend Jonas Munk who was involved in the recording process and production.

Caught on camera out in the real world, tired/doing my thing (spacing out).

New approach to unplugged guitar noodling: playing with eyes closed. It looks kind of ridiculous and I realized I can't really play those fast lines, but whatever...this is apparently what I've got at the moment.