w/Ross Hammond
Ross Hammond - Resonator,electric guitar Amy Melissa Reed -Guitars, vocals
This is improvised music - the songs are made as we play together in our special space with community at GOLD LION ARTS - they are dreams pulled through the sonosphere - healing offerings created by the beautiful and sacred moments we get to make music together. I want to thank Ross and his family and friends for making so much of that happen. Recorded by Charles Smith 2015 - 2018 Digital Release December 21 2022
about solo electric "song no song" 'Amy Reed is a guitarist and painter from Sacramento, California, home to the Gold Lion Arts performance space where she recorded this evocative solo guitar piece. Like some of her paintings, in which the abstract is met with precise strokes of paint and large open spaces, her extended technique solo guitar work takes advantage of similar motifs. The short tape release sees Reed creating an expectant atmosphere, pulling out all sorts of sounds from her instrument, from long pendulous swings to fine crackling bursts of bristling notes.' Paul Acquaro
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Rivers & Song Amy Melissa Reed (with Ross Hammond) recorded live in studio by Matt Baxter Ophir, CA in 2016 and released 2018 by Ma Series Arts
Song, No Song Recorded Live by Charles Smith at Gold Lion Arts, Released by Gold Lion Arts on TAPE only
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Recorded in the summer of 2014, Solo Guitar is a mere 13 minutes of Ms. Reed scraping, strumming, and rubbing strings. She makes use of extended techniques, found objects in particular, to evoke alternating brightness and darkness. Often, her style results in two related voices simultaneously jangling, or one sustained while the other speaks. Her tone is usually clean, but she turns up the distortion toward the end of this single track for a more aggressive, yet still thoughtful, finale.'
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