The latest in hybrid roots music from Tower Recordings' founding member, PAT GUBLER, finally sees the light of day (the record's been years in the making). A nine-track swing-out blend of '60s and '70s pastoral sounds, it's British folk -- in the vein of The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention -- with touches of rural American blues, Appalachian porch warble, avant lite rock, and old-school drone.

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The second PG Six album, following three years after Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, saw Pat Gubler continuing to explore his folk roots-via- avant-garde arrangements muse in entrancing ways, able to stake out a further space for his individual art post-Tower Recordings as well as from others working in the general vein of early 21st century sounds of that kind. Something like the opening "Well of Memory, Pt. I," with its collage of autoharp, drones, and plenty of reverb, not to men...   [ read more ]

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Music for the Sherman Box Series and Other Works is a bit of an anomaly in Pat Gubler's discography. Stylistically rather far removed from the pastoral alt-folk of earlier albums like Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, this is a collection of loosely structured instrumental improvisations. Tracks one through seven were composed as the musical accompaniment for a summer 2005 exhibition of miniature multimedia collages (constructed in re-purposed Nat Sherman cigarette boxes, hence the name) by...   [ read more ]

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