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James Blackshaw
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat
Tompkins Square
Over the last decade British guitarist/pianist James Blackshaw has quietly dazzled – cutting the usual John Fahey/Peter Walker guitar shapes and always with a deeply filmic sensibility, the yearn, the sorrow, it drips from the strings and drizzles down off the keys; nostalgia is framed as gorgeous…
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