Who are some contemporary experimental guitarists that really push the boundaries of the instrument? I don't mean shredding and advanced techniques; just people who developed an original sound that no one have ever heard from guitar. I'm bored of Hendrix's leftovers and reverb+delay.
Who are some contemporary experimental guitarists that really push the boundaries of the instrument...
Matthew Barnes
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Nolan Thomas
Roy Montgomery
Jace Moore
which of his albums is the best to start with?
Grayson Murphy
John Frusciante maybe?
Every new interesting sound a guitar could make was found by the end of the 80s with Sonic Youth though.
Ryder Gonzalez
Scenes from a South Island to start with
Nathan Reyes
Frusciante's playing was really hendrixy while in the peppers (still awesome), but his later work is really exceptional.
Aiden Brooks
Spencer from Hella
Ryan Sanchez
J O H N P E T R U C C I
William Brown
Jonny Greenwood
Robert Plant
Oliver Bennett
Chris Weisman has some pretty interesting stuff.
Here's a interview with him about some book he wrote a couple years ago of experimental/alternative scales:
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i wanted to pick it up just to check it out but unfortunately its out of print :(
>>The Radical Readout Press is proud to present Chris Weisman's Nonmusical Patterns and their Musical Uses (for Guitar in Standard Tuning). Nonmusical Patterns is a hand-made, perfect-bound softback with letterpressed cover containing one hundred geometric patterns overlaid to the fretboard of a guitar in standard tuning. Weisman, a performer, recording artist and music teacher devised the selected patterns with their potential as creative spurs for the improvising guitarist in mind. Nonmusical Patterns is an unorthodox fusion of musical and visual esthetic concerns and is ultimately an act of conceptual synesthesia whose practical result, in the hands of the improvising guitarist, is musical and artistic risk-taking. As such, the work is in the tradition of George Brecht's Water Yam, Yoko Ono's Grapefruit or Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies and may appeal as much to those interested in conceptual art and artists' books as it will to the improviser and theoretician.
seems interesting imo
Thomas Long
me
Jace Rogers
John McLaughlin
Brayden Mitchell
Can I throw in Brett Netson with Caustic Resin?
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Not the most well known, but I think he does some awesome stuff with the guitar.
Tyler Hughes
you have my permission to shill some of your work
Tyler Hall
Allan Holdsworth when he was alive, John Scofield, Robert Fripp, Julian Lage, Pat Metheny, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo), Fred Frith, Al Di Meola, Bill Frisell.
Cameron Thomas
Loren Connors
Alexander Russell
This is some "all asians look same" shit right here.
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Matthew Myers
Weird scales! Something for me, thanks
Carter Jones
Mateus Asato's approach to guitar is very traditional in the sense that he plays accessible music and is rooted in the classics, but the way he does that is far beyond how anyone else has approached the instrument.
Lucas James
>I'm bored of Hendrix's leftovers and reverb+delay.
If you honestly believe that's "the pinnacle" you obviously have to listen to more music.
Austin Brooks
Bill Orcutt
Nels Cline kinda
Caleb Nelson
It's a shame he's most likely going to play this for the rest of his career:
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Dominic Cruz
>Every new interesting sound a guitar could make was found by the end of the 80s with Sonic Youth though.
this
Brandon Bailey
>Every new interesting sound a guitar could make was found by the end of the 80s with Sonic Youth though.
Are you still sure of that, despite all the recommendations in this thread?
Bentley Long
Thank you very much, I really like him.
Brandon Lopez
I know that this is a vague description, but it fits the majority of popular contemporary guitarists.
Owen Moore
Christian Fennesz , Oren Ambarchi, Eivind Aarset
Daniel Harris
prepare for shit my friend
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Joseph Johnson
Seconded
Connor Rodriguez
ichirou agata from melt banana