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Gwenifer Raymond. Check out the official music video from the second single, Hell For Certain: Hell For Certain. Watch on. My new album, ‘Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain’, has eight songs in it. All were recorded in a basement flat in central Brighton, locked-down amidst a global pandemic.
Gwenifer Raymond is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist, originally from Cardiff but now residing in Brighton, England. Gwenifer began playing guitar at the age of eight shortly after having been...
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Although Gwenifer doesn’t read music (“I’m a very impatient person…”) and tends to remember her tunes instead of writing them down, Strange Lights… remains complex and finely nuanced, with more sophistication than her debut. “This one feels more compositional to me,” she says. “It’s a bit like classical music in that it’s got these ideas of movemen...
Gwenifer’s teacher went on to play her a record by John Fahey, which led to another turning point in her career, when she realised there were people making this music and that it was being heard. There is no denying Fahey’s genius and his trailblazing approach to solo acoustic guitar music, and the genre is now bursting with new, emerging players, ...
When it comes to favoured acoustic guitars, one instrument sits at the top of the pile for Gwenifer: “My go-to is my Waterloo WL-14L. I recorded the whole album on this and it’s my live guitar as well. I got it because I was travelling around and touring and playing vintage guitars and just being terrified they were going to be smashed into a thous...
Gwenifer Raymond. 2,708 likes · 15 talking about this. Guitar convincer. Banjo thumber. American Primitive musician. EU/UK bookings: andrew@phantom-limb.co.uk All other bookings:...
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August 24Line Up FestivalMalvern (UK)ticketsOctober 2The BedfordLondon (UK)ticketsOctober 10Rus & RillerFaaborg (DK)ticketsOctober 17The Rose HillBrighton (UK)November 27de KoerGhent (BE)ticketsNovember 28Hollands CollegeLeuven (BE)tickets(sold out)November 29Le VecteurCharleroi (BE)tickets
Learn about Gwenifer Raymond, a virtuoso of American Primitive style who plays instrumental guitar and has a PhD in astrophysics. Find out how she started, what influences her, and what gear she uses.
Bleeding Finger Blues. Watch on. Sack 'em Up, Parts I & II. Watch on. Face Down Strut. Watch on. Dance of the Everlasting Faint. Watch on.
