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A Blessed Unrest That Keeps Us Marching

by Orville Johnson

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1st Movement 03:51
2.
2nd Movement 05:05
3.
3rd Movement 04:50
4.
4th Movement 01:44

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This piece is a guitar improvisation. I added piano and percussion to Movements 2 & 3. I was meditating on a guitar style that John Fahey dubbed "American Primitive".

The style includes techniques derived from fingerpicking blues, country, and folk musics and compositional techniques from modern classical, jazz, and avant garde free improvisation. I just call it "music".

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released February 2, 2023

Composed, Played, and Recorded by Orville Johnson
Recorded at The SunRoom, Seattle WA

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Orville Johnson Seattle, Washington

Orville Johnson was raised in the Illinois heartland. He acquired his love of singing as a youth in the fundamentalist Pentecostal church he attended and, when he later began playing guitar and dobro, responded to the roots music that surrounded him by learning to play the blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, and country music that are all part of the mosaic that characterizes his own mongrel music. ... more

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