Finnish microlabels Creative Class War and Hillotehdas are set to release an anthology album of four experimental solo guitarists. To be released on 20.3.2025 (CD /C-cassette /digital) the album will feature new music by Edgars Rubenis (Latvia), Kalle Tikas (Estonia), Kadonnut Manner (Finland) and Eric Arn (USA/Austria).
Marking the release of the anthology, Edgars Rubenis and Kadonnut Manner will go on a joint East European tour part of which they will visit Retrito Smarsas in Vilnius to perform their solo sets. During the evening, we will travel with the music from reinterpretations of old ragtime and country blues forms through drones and world music influences to more abstract atmospheres.
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Lauri Manner (b. 1983, Suomussalmi, Finland) started out in the 90’s playing bass in punk bands. He started his autodidactic journey in fingerpicking acoustic guitar in 2015 after obsessively listening to John Fahey records for years, found solace and meaning from doing that and made his debut recording as Kadonnut Manner (“The Lost Continent”) in 2017, with 4 albums of his own compositions now published. Lauri currently resides up on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi and intends to keep on making music and touring no matter how bad the state of the world gets.
Lauri Manner (b. 1983, Suomussalmi, Finland) started out in the 90’s playing bass in punk bands. He started his autodidactic journey in fingerpicking acoustic guitar in 2015 after obsessively listening to John Fahey records for years, found solace and meaning from doing that and made his debut recording as Kadonnut Manner (“The Lost Continent”) in 2017, with 4 albums of his own compositions now published. Lauri currently resides up on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi and intends to keep on making music and touring no matter how bad the state of the world gets.
http://www.kadonnutmanner.fi
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https://www.youtube.com/@kadonnutmanner7563/videos
https://shorturl.at/CS0yB
https://www.youtube.com/@kadonnutmanner7563/videos
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Edgars Rubenis (b. 1983, Riga, Latvia) got involved with acoustic guitar and seemingly old-sounding music in 2020. Up till then he had defined himself through experimental rock in Mona de Bo and a string of long-form pieces in the field of contemporary composition. His acoustic guitar trilogy “Pains And Boogies” is published by dis ce que in the Netherlands.
Edgars Rubenis (b. 1983, Riga, Latvia) got involved with acoustic guitar and seemingly old-sounding music in 2020. Up till then he had defined himself through experimental rock in Mona de Bo and a string of long-form pieces in the field of contemporary composition. His acoustic guitar trilogy “Pains And Boogies” is published by dis ce que in the Netherlands.