C Joynes

English Acoustic Guitarist C Joynes A Resident Of Cambridge Has Released A Few Self Produced Excellent CDRs But Here Sees His First Bo’ Weavil Release. Joynes Uses A Heavy Thumb-Led Finger-Picking Technique That Harks Back To Traditional Country-Blues And Early Ragtime However He Uses This Technique To Explore Alternative Melodic Traditions The English Folk-Tune North And West African Music Elements Of Classical Indian Music Proto-Minimalist And Impressionist Musics From The European Classical Tradition. His Approach To The Recording And Compositional Process Contains A Subtle And Unassuming Experimentation At Times Including Collaged Fragments Field Recordings Processing En-Plein-Air Recordings And Cut-And-Paste. The Version Of ‘Since I Lay My Burden Down’ Incorporates Variations On Lyrics And Vocal Lines Drawn From A Different Song Entirely. He Has A Penchant For Reworking Over-Familiar Pieces And Stripping Them Of Their Kitsch And Cliché Presenting Them Afresh Such As With ‘Christmas Medley’ The Arrangement Of ‘A Night In Tunisia’ And The Gospel-Based ‘And When The Sun Begins To Shine’. Joynes’ Music Is Instinctive Well-Researched Placid And Evokes A Certain Simplicity And Naiveté. read less