Audio: “Brave Walls”, by Yair Yona, from Remember (out 8.24.10 on Strange Attractors).
Israel isn’t exactly known as a hotbed for acoustic steel-string guitar music, but guitarist/instrumentalist and all-around sonic ambassador Yair Yona seems determined to change all of that. From his headquarters in Tel Aviv, Yona is composing some of the most genre-bending music for solo steel-string heard since Sandy Bull opened up all the possibilities around the idiom in the 60’s. Remember, Yona’s astonishing debut solo album, is a celebration of the Takoma Records school coarsely filtered through a multi-hued prism of sound, resulting in an intelligent collection of compositions delivered in a fully-formed and strikingly singular voice. Remember will be released August 24, 2010, issued on CD housed in a lovely post-consumer recycled cardstock wallet gatefold, as a Ltd Edition 300 LP pressing with download card and hand-numbered silkscreend jackets, and MP3. Strange Attractors Resurrection Series, Vol. 7
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