Volk guitarists of youtube, an anthology

friend just pointed me in the direction of this dude -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne-1HmUnjxU
i think he fits in with this thread?

also let me join the chorus saying this thread is wild

I updated the spotify playlist global mentioned upthread btw if anyone's interested. it's an imo quite compelling mixture of andean mountain men, 18th century germans, slack key guitar, muscovite gypsy tunes, zimbabwean ragtime, single-string stomps, brazilian hillbillies etc. that has some affinity with the spirit of this thread in terms of joining the dots of guitar music world-wide.

volk guitar - http://open.spotify.com/user/ogmor/playlist/6YJVAWIuy5Xk2wBtbI4zj3

spotify inevitably has less of the coarse appeal of amateurs/bedroom recordings/street performers etc. and I've been listening to a lot of virtuosic guitarists lately anyway, but the playlist is a mb better way of trying to give a sense of the guitar as an instrument/sound-world/constantly-evolving set of idioms & styles.

also, really like this guy's playing, he has a few videos up but this is gorgeous -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLeqnEDF7jU&src_vid=K5IyfLHFIdU

i could derail this thread with dozens of slack key videos but i'll just post one at random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WD1y679R4c

dude on the right is a living legend and a solid bro

all slack key is v pertinent to this thread post away!

the cicadas in the background here are sublime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stCKoUrbb00

Ooh nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OecIBzDU-pM

fairly sick

in tears

never change, australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9jRrPTrpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y67dkDTLTr0

Guzal Muminova shows off of dutar techniques, riffs through Uzbek trad, wears a leopard print blouse, keeps toddler at bay, and is all around kvlt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jgJKDtdTEA&list=PLiiyeesJx-n1xvn42EIDw5jvjS0giHcoD&t=0s&index=8

that's not playing for me but if it's this it's A+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jgJKDtdTEA

that's amazing
totally showing it to my students!!

Thanks for fixing!

As I work my way through the Caspian region, Azeri mugham is postrock, Iranian tradtional is kosmische and the Uzbeks are metal.

Iranian traditional is kosmische

iiiiinteresting -- example?

this would be the most krautish example

https://open.spotify.com/album/1wVWcht0OT9w3ViWjRlW5W?si=-FSNgSWQRN6O5eRxrjQIFw

this is one of the only videos i ever put on youtube, met this guy at an open mic night, really cool, kirar music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRv590rF6yw

that's rad, the only krar player I've heard before is kassa tessema, who I really like, but this guy's strumming style is really different and I think mb the instrument itself looks smaller

yeah you can't see it very well, it looked maybe home made? the body looked like the same material as a solid body electric guitar, and he had a humbucker in it

i ended up doing a show w/him (and global i think?) anyway haven't seen him since but yeah his whole set was great, really hypnotic