ian yeager – music forguitar + computer (pax)

i have reviewed one pax recordings release so far. it was a release by the san francisco based project miba that i really liked. it offered a fresh electroacoustic sound with vibrating glitchy moments. this is another release by this quite interesting improv and electro acoustic label, a release by ian yeager. and as it seems it is also a very nice album composed by this bay area guitarist/composer and improviser. the title itself tells everything about the compositions. in this debut solo, in all of the fourteen tracks, he is playing a guitar and a computer. he combines calm, beautiful and subtle guitar melodies, implementing in them in irregular electronic vibrating. and the result is pure guitar ambiental music, ambient not in a sense of musical style, but more as a way of listening to the music. guitar is of course in the highlights while the computer only gives the final sharpening which results in long, beautiful, calm, quiet, abstract melodies and fine sparkling electronics. endless simplicity does nothing but contribute to the ambient feeling. completely simple and relaxed.