Alexander Tunrquist's third album Hallway of Mirrors just hit stores last Tuesday. If you aren't yet familiar with this young prolific experimental composer/guitarist, here's where you get on. Entirely instrumental melancholic experimental folk/drone. The foundation of his compositions are on his 12-string steel guitar, using rapid intricate and inventive tangles of repetitive guitar finger-picking creating a hypnotic dream-like atmosphere. This lush guitar drift is overlapped by soft chimes of the vibraphone, sweet violin, maybe some cello and other harmonics. Immerse yourself immediately into his otherworldly beautiful compositions. Perfect soundtrack for a morning hike after a gentle rain, which is all I'm getting here in Utah during the most elongated Spring I've ever endured. Either way, I'm a sucker for this stuff. He can be compared to other great minimalistic multi-instrumentalists like James Blackshaw, Kaki King (early), Jack Rose, Rachel's, David Pajo, etc. Pitchfork caught wind of his first album and branded him an 8.2 rating; his second reached #6 on The Silent Ballet Top 50 of 2009; and this one no doubt will garner attention as well. Not a bad reputation for an Idaho born 20-something (born in 1988). His skill and technique is to be revered, no matter the age.-BleakRambo
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