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The Solo Joint

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discography:the solo joint (foxglove 145, cd-r, december 2006, 100 copies) www.digitalisindustries.com/foxglove.htmlamber lions (w/valerio cosi) (frst prsn, plural 035, 3", december 2006) www.frstprsn.compink panther blood (as amber lions, w/ valerio cosi) (house of alchemy 010, 3", may 2007, 123 copies) www.thehouseofalchemy.comthe solo joint 2 (foxglove 171, cd-r, october 2007, 100 copies) www.digitalisindustries.com/foxglove.html Untitled DocumentTry the BEST MySpace Editor at MySpace Toolbox !

"Soul first, after the technique" -- Robbie Basho

if you want to get it: www.digitalisindustries.com/fg145.html
... This is a collection of home-recorded improvisations on guitar, often with open tunings and mostly very loose ends, never looking for structures, but only building up on the mood of the fingerpickings which almost the guitar-with-the-performer (in this order) create. Sometimes, like The Golden Crescent, these sound like campfire improvisations without the heart and fire, focusing into the empty space, but more often are almost too private, meditative sessions which spins and spins around. This is completely a mood thing, at times, comparable to the most esoteric moments of Satwa. Even when the guitars are melodic, the chords are so loosely directing, the effect of turning around and spinning creating something psychedelic. Two tracks are live improvisations as a quartet, with some percussion, vocal mournings and sound loops. Me Voy Bueno might be my favourite track : a melodic picking open blues tune-or-whatever spin with a perfectly fitting almost meccano-like guitar case rhythm, with some changing and almost losing-it-into cloud-staring rhythmic pulses near the end, but still just unconsciously ? directed enough to make its own sense of being almost deliberate. No track is really too long or ever boring, and the mix of all improvisations is compiled well. For me it is a very enjoyable CD, attractive specially to those who are able to accept the essence of just moody and loose psychedelic acoustic guitar spinning wheels." - Gerald Van Waes (Psych Van Het Folk)

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Member Since: 20/06/2005
Band Website: www.myspace.com/thesolojoint
Band Members: toni ruiz, guitars - with the eventual collaboration of charlie, percusion, guitar; and fernando, jose & artemi, guitars / as "amber lions": with valerio cosi on sax, drums, bass, electronics, drones
Influences: tony conrad, henry flynt, john cale, angus maclise, fred neil, sun ra, lennie tristano, charlie mingus, john coltrane quartet, thelonious monk, bill evans, john fahey, bruce langhorne, jose larralde, baden powell, heitor villa-lobos, erik satie, moondog, joao gilberto, violeta parra, atahualpa yupanqui, odetta, yusef lateef, eric dolphy, chico hamilton, jimmy giuffre, mccoy tyner, don cherry, roland kirk, gabor szabo, gato barbieri, pharoah sanders, robbie basho, dino valenti, vince martin, the velvet underground, sandy bull, karen dalton, tim hardin, patty waters, the godz, peter walker, the byrds, tim buckley, liberation music orchestra, leonard cohen, the seventh sons, mel lyman lisa kindred jim kweskin, richie & mimi farina, buffy st. marie, neil young, pearls before swine, incredible string band, pentangle, syd barrett, fairport convention, nick drake, julie driscoll brian auger & trinity, caetano veloso, derek bailey, fela kuti, charlemagne palestine, satwa, ze ramalho e lula cortez, musica dispersa, can, agitation free, faust, joy division, glenn branca, sonic youth, the fall, dinosaur jr, sun city girls, arnold dreyblatt, cul de sac, jim o'rourke, gastr del sol, labradford, rachel's, for carnation, smog, palace brothers, macmahan, callahan & oldham, pullman, hochenkeit, ali farka touré, tinariwen, pelt, rod poole, jackie-o motherfucker, dj shadow, the dirty three, tortoise, town and country, harris newman, bosco & jorge, currituck co,..................
Sounds Like: (according to diverse sources: critics, reviewers, friends, fans, historians, scholars, encyclopedies...): satwa, six organs of admittance, bardo pond, tower recordings, jandek, sonic youth, steffen basho-junghans, fennesz, david grubbs, the blithe sons, the ivytree; organic melancholy, free-form pastoralism, upside-down improvisations, skewed open tunes, spinning, evocative, indeterminacy, sliding, ramshackled, sketched, dark, jangly, layered, chaotic, campfirish, spontaneous, subtle, emotional, soothing, unfinished, indefinite
Record Label: foxglove, frst prsn, house of alchemy
Type of Label: Indie

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get "the solo joint 2"

get the solo joint 2 (foxglove). just go to paypal and send me to [email protected] : 7$ usa 6¬ europe (package&post included)
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:50:00 GMT

broken face on pink panther blood

mats gustaffson (from broken face) drops some words about "pink panther blood" (3" collab valerio cosi/solo joint=amber lions): House of Alchemy enters the 3" world with Amber Lions' Pink Panther Bloo...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:26:00 GMT

get the solo joint 2 on melody bar

reviewed and on sale (4$) http://www.apexonline.com/melodybar/catsz~1.htm Tony Ruiz and his acoustic guitar - recorded waaaay into overload - sit centre stage here, with repeated figures which build i...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:17:00 GMT

solo joint 1 to order on boa melody bar

The Solo Joint - s/t cdr (Foxglove) 4.50 Another lovely cdr on Foxglove of meandering folk from Spain (after that lovely Raro & Apenino cdr from earlier this year). Acoustic guitar, scattered pe...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:41:00 GMT

the solo joint 2 is out NOW!

the new 7-track cd-r by the solo joint (toni ruiz on acoustic guitars) is out now on foxglove, the digitalis off-shot ........ to get it go to www.digitalisindustries.com/foxglove
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:12:00 GMT

pink panther blood reviewed on eclipse

The mystic worlds of Valerio Cosi and The Solo Joint collide as Amber Lions......one long track navigates through a dreamworld of saxophone, synth, strings and more strings all glazed in a mercurial f...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:47:00 GMT

2nd foxglove release out october

the solo joint 2 (release: october 2007) foxglove 171 1. mass am2. in-visible3. escondrijo4. sapopo5. my head kissed the ground6. vigilia7. no redemption song lenght: 52' 29'' toni ruiz: acoustic guit...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:20:00 GMT

next dream mag reviews the solo joint 1st cdr (foxglove 145)

  The Solo Joint is mostly Toni Ruiz who hails from Spain and creates this moody mysteriousinstrumental music that reveals his roots while it's aimed at the moon. Toni employs guitars, ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:15:00 GMT

animalpsi reviews pink panther blood

Pink Panther Blood' is my second encounter with Amber Lions, and unless I'm missing something (it happens all the time), the rough duo of Valerio Cosi and Tony Ruiz (give or take a few friends) are he...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:09:00 GMT

foxy review on pink panther blood (9 out 10)

You can never be sure from what angle Valerio Cosi is coming from album to album, even track to track. As one of the most talented, innovative, and adaptable players making the rounds these days, each...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:05:00 GMT