2012 Discoveries

Harry Manx is excellent. I recommend "Road Ragas" which is an older live cd. When he plays the Indian moganveeda (sp?), it is magic. The instrument is basically a 21 string sitar underneath a 6 string guitar you play on your lap. When Manx hits a chord, there is a complex wall of sound. Very interesting acoustic music.

My wife made me take her to see the George Clooney movie "The Descendants" and while I'm not a big movie fan I absolutely loved the music in it. The movie is set in Hawaii and all the music is Hawaiian songs that already existed rather than new. The soundtrack is a great intro to slack key guitar music as well as vocalists. It is not new music, but new to me and beautiful to listen to.