‘Darkness’ is the latest release from Last of the Real Hardmen, the solo guise of Nottingham guitarist Chris Summerlin (Lords, Wolves of Greece, Reynolds, Felix). Following on from his warmly received audio travel diary ’10,000 Miles’, released on Bird War Records in October 2006, here Chris presents 13 improvised tracks, recorded direct to four track cassette using treated electric guitars. These freeform compositions mark a sinister and shadowy contrast to the buoyant acoustic guitar playing of previous releases and demonstrate a further expansion in style of Chris’ musical palette.
For fans of Loren Mazzacane Connors, late John Fahey and Tom Carter.
Black/black cdr, packaged in a heavyweight black on black silk screened card sleeve. Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies.
Review at Avant-Gardening
The Wire, October 2007 - 'Outer Limits' review by Edwin Pouncey
Darkness excerpt 2 (128k mp3, 3.07 minutes, 2.9MB)