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"Jordan Perry has a firm and solid touch to his string wrangling, but unlike many of his contemporaries, he doesn’t seem to feel compelled to resolve all the melodic questions he raises. Perry often stops in a place he finds interesting, repeating rhythmic figures while trying out variations on the note/chord sequence that stopped him in the first place. It’s a goddamn fascinating approach and allows him to explore textual aspects of the acoustic guitar that are not investigated often enough. In a certain sense, Perry’s playing feels akin to that of Jon Collins, since both guitarists appear to acknowledge the American Primitive School, while approaching its compositional orthodoxy with an attitude that substitutes experimental tendencies for blues-base thinking. But the way they resolve these themes is quite different. Perry’s slower pacing and precise string selection eschews the aleatory for a kind of mindfulness that is as invigorating as I usually find randomness." -Byron Coley, 2019 https://jordanperry1.bandcamp.com/album/witness-tree

Raven Bauer Durham, based in Syria, Virginia, is an experimental guitar-based performer, incorporating ambient textures, voice, song-structures and abstract layers. Her most recent release, as a duo with James Wolf, came out in April 2019 - The River and The Rain In It, which blogger Bored in Pittsburgh called, “a fascinating album, easy to listen to, but difficult to classify.” Raven is also a previous member of Virginia based improv/drone/noise group, Phoenix Auto Group.
https://starofthesearecordings.bandcamp.com/album/conversations

James Wolf a musician from the DC area. He has been active in the indie and experimental scenes for the last 25 years, playing violin, guitar, bass and keyboards in bands like Laconic Chamber, From Quagmire, Gena Rowlands Band, Fern Knight, the Orchid and Phoenix Auto Group. He has put out four solo recordings, including two on Verses records and one on Star of the Sea Recordings.
https://jameslawrencewolfravenbauerdurham.bandcamp.com/