Curran’s first album under his own name invokes swarming natural forces, looking for the borderline between the real and the sublime and, maybe, the supernatural. For those who dig their acoustic folk on the mystic side, there’s guitarist Buck Curran’s solo debut, Immortal Light. One-half of Arborea, Curran’s first album underhis own name invokes…
Buck Curran interviewed by Folk Radio UK
Check the original interview at http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2016/09/interview-buck-curran/ Those that have followed the psych-folk scene over the years will be more than familiar with guitarist Buck Curran, one-half of Arborea (alongside Shanti Deschaine). Buck has just released Immortal Light, his solo debut. It was one of our Featured Albums of the Month very recently, and Thomas Blake summed the…
The Rushings on Obsolete Recordings
We are very happy to announce the release of The Rushings Nashville West Sessions via Obsolete Recordings. The Rushings feat. Buck Curran (Nashville West Sessions) by The Rushings iTunes https://itunes.apple.co m/us/album/rushings-nashville- west-sessions/id1161848807 Bandcamp https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-r ushings-feat-buck-curran-nashv ille-west-sessions Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/obsoleterecordings/love-sick-mess_the-rushings-featuring-buck-curran Facebook https://www.facebook.com/therushings/
Textura Buck Curran’s Review
“Given my familiarity with Buck Curran’s work as one-half of the folk outfit Arborea, I’d expected his debut solo collection, Immortal Light, to be solid, but in all honesty, I hadn’t expected it be as great as it is.” Textura
Buck Curran’s Immortal Light on Folk Radio UK
“With Immortal Light Curran has successfully tapped into that natural beauty and created a slice of alt-folk that is as engrossing as anything you’re likely to hear.” Thomas Blake – Folk Radio Uk Buck Curran has been a leading light in the psych-folk scene for so long now that it might come as a surprise…
Basket Full of Dragons on Vomb (Argentina)
Thanks VOMB (Argentina) for this nice review about our album Basket Full of Dragons. A Tribute to Robbie Basho Vol II, where you can find the musical work of three Argentinian musicians: Jonah Schwartz, Karina Vismara and Mariano Rodriguez. Click here to read the review: http://www.vomb.com.ar/openfolk-tributo-argentino-a-robbie-basho/
Italy loves Buck Curran
Two of the major music magazines in Italy, Blow Up Magazine and Rockerilla and one the prolific blogs Music Won’t Save You and Triste Sunset rewieved our Buck Curran’s Immortal Light. Buck Curran will be touring in Italy in fall 2016, to check is dates you can go here “Glittering fingerpicking as ever. His voice has the power, the…
Basket Full of Dragons on Paghead Nation
“If John Fahey is the Mississippi River of “American Primitive” acoustic steel-string guitar playing, Robbie Basho is the Ganges. If Fahey is the Everest, Basho is the Fuji. Though overshadowed in life and death by his fellow Mid-Atlantic area native, Basho—he was born Daniel R. Robinson, Jr. in 1940 and died at age 45 in 1986—has been the subject…
Basket Full of Dragons on Relix
“It took nearly 20 years, but the Basho revival has come, too. This summer will see the release of Basket Full of Dragons, the second Basho tribute organized by Buck Curran, a guitar maker, one-half of the Maine-based Arborea and a solo artist with his debut album set for release this summer on ESP-Disk’. Already a…
Buck Curran’s Immortal Light on Dusted Magazine
“Guitar tones linger and reverberate with a mystical translucence: you can hear Curran’s admiration for guitar gnostic Robbie Basho in the notes and spaces between them. Yet perhaps the most striking passage is a borrowed one, a cover of Creedence’s “Bad Moon Rising,” whose acoustic setting doesn’t blunt apocryphal imagery but rather sharpens it. Fogerty…