John Fahey - Volume 1 / Blind Joe Death Flaming Tunes Not far beneath the surface

Not far beneath the surface of their self-admitted sloganeering lies a deeply complex and brutally relevant album that chews up clichés and spits them out as high art for the masses

Soulwax have managed to make an album from inception to realisation from the slimmest of ideas

experimental and esoteric industrial folk projects

2 of his Collected Works series

John Fahey - Volume 1 / Blind Joe Death Flaming Tunes Not far beneath the surfaceBorn on February 28 1939 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA, John Fahey was an acoustic guitar pioneer, who studied folklore and the techniques of the bluesmen. He is the man who introduced stream of consciousness into folk music and turned folk into classical music, and then made it cross the boundaries of Western and Eastern music. The spiritual father of the "American primitive guitar", Fahey turned the guitar solo into a metaphysical exercise. He set