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Leo Kottke - Peculiaroso (1994) {Private Music–BMG 01005-82111-2}
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© 1994 Private Music / BMG | 01005-82111-2
Finger-Picked Guitar / Progressive Folk / Contemporary Folk / New Acoustic

In terms of musical mastery, few instruments deserve more attention and respect than the twelve-string guitar, and few masters of that instrument deserve that same attention and respect more than Leo Kottke. From his lyrics ("Room at the Top of the Stairs") to his playing ("Wonderland by Night"), this 1994 Private Music release, well produced by Rickie Lee Jones, is at turns humorous, haunting, and highly enjoyable.

Willy Porter - Dog Eared Dream
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Label/Cat#: Private Music # 01005 82134 2 | Country/Year: Europe 1995
Genre: Rock, Acoustic, Blues | Style: Singer / Songwriter

Patty Larkin is a good female comparison to Willy Porter. Both are awesome guitarists and humorous storytellers who write and sing songs that cross genre borders, generally landing somewhere between folk, rock, pop, and blues, with the occasional soulful tinge. Dog Eared Dream was originally released independently in 1994, being reissued in 1995 by Private Music thanks to a buzz built by Porter's relentless touring and adult alternative radio's crush on him…

Ravi Shankar - Inside The Kremlin (1989) {Private Music 2204-2-P}
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© 1989 Private Music / BMG | 2204-2-P
World / Indian Classical / Raga / Russian Folk / Meditative

Ravi Shankar, the figurehead of world music, was invited in 1988 to work with Russian musicians on a concert to mark the end of an Indian Festival in the Soviet Union. This recording was made on July seventh of that year, with over 140 musicians present: Shankar's Indian Ensemble, the Russian Folk Ensemble, the Government Chorus of Ministry of Culture of USSR, and the chamber orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic. Shankar composed all seven of the pieces here as a melding of the musics of India and Russia.

Leo Kottke - One Guitar, No Vocals (1999) {Private Music–BMG 01005821712}
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© 1999 Private Music / BMG | 01005 82171 2
Finger-Picked Guitar / Progressive Folk / Jazz Blues / Contemporary Folk / New Acoustic

Leo Kottke has always been known primarily as a guitarist, yet it has been a number of years since he's released a solo guitar record, which is what makes One Guitar, No Vocals welcome. Kottke is at his most impressive at his most intimate, turning out alternately gentle and intense solo guitar pieces. No matter how complex the music is – and it is, at minimum, moderately complex – Kottke pulls it off with grace, making it all seem easy.

Leo Kottke - That's What (1990) {Private Music 260 883}
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© 1990 Private Music | 260 883
Finger-Picked Guitar / Progressive Folk / Jazz / Jazz Blues / New Acoustic

Leo Kottke has always been a highly idiosyncratic guitar player whose music is infused with his wry sense of humor. That's What is no exception, with Kottke's guitar work drawing from jazzy, blues and folk sources. Four of the tunes feature electric guitar, with some lively electric and string bass by sideman Billy Peterson, who also contributes touches of percussion, synth, piano and, on one piece, Farfisa organ.

Andy Summers - Mysterious Barricades (1988) {Private-Music Japan}
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© 1988 Private Music | 32XB-295
Rock / Fusion / Instrumental / Guitar

The former Police guitarist's first solo instrumental album turns out to be a gentle, thoroughly domesticated continuation of his looping soundscapes with Robert Fripp earlier in the 1980s ("I Advance Masked"). Keyboardist David Hentschel is … Full Descriptiona co-conspirator on several tracks, though Summers is perfectly content to go it alone on others. With its repeated guitar loops, interactive counterlines, gentle washes of keyboards, advancing and receding waves of effects, Summers is out to sooth and refresh, not to challenge and disturb – and the music drifts lazily toward the shores of the soporific New Age.

Leo Kottke - A Shout Toward Noon (1986) {Private Music 1701}
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© 1986 Private Music | 2007-2-P / 1701
Finger-Picked Guitar / Progressive Folk / Jazz Blues / Contemporary Folk / New Acoustic

Though the opening cuts are typical Leo Kottke instrumentals – bouncy guitar pieces with nods to jazz, folk, and blues – A Shout Toward Noon is dominated by more moody, somber tunes. In some cases these are in bright folk territory – "Four Four North" has the tense, repetitive activity of a Hitchcock soundtrack and features some unusual guitar techniques that magnify the sense suspense. Other cuts like "The Ice Field" have the meditative, melancholy character that is more typical of John Fahey's later work.