FURTHER THAN THOUGHT
With his second album, Ben Van Bonn nods at Elizabeth Cotten's ingenious picking patterns and Robbie Basho's soaring visions of California, yet floats wordlessly into new territory. Accompanied by little more than electric bass, a mirage of glassy fingerpicking opens chutes into an aquatic world to reveal fountains of strange harmonies that are unreachable with traditional guitar techniques.
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