James Blackshaw

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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever 00:00 Tools
Transient Life in Twilight 00:00 Tools
Fix 00:00 Tools
Running to the Ghost 00:00 Tools
The Cloud of Unknowing 00:00 Tools
Love Is the Plan, The Plan Is Death 00:00 Tools
Cross 00:00 Tools
The Mirror Speaks 00:00 Tools
Clouds Collapse 00:00 Tools
Stained Glass Windows 00:00 Tools
Infinite Circle 00:00 Tools
Gate of Ivory 00:00 Tools
Sunshrine 00:00 Tools
Arc 00:00 Tools
Past Has Not Passed 00:00 Tools
Key 00:00 Tools
Bled 00:00 Tools
Shroud 00:00 Tools
Spiralling Skeleton Memorial 00:00 Tools
Echo And Abyss 00:00 Tools
The Elk with Jade Eyes 00:00 Tools
Gate of Horn 00:00 Tools
O True Believers 00:00 Tools
Part 1 00:00 Tools
A Momentary Taste of Being 00:00 Tools
Part 2 00:00 Tools
We Who Stole the Dream 00:00 Tools
Part 3 00:00 Tools
The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone 00:00 Tools
And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways 00:00 Tools
Part 4 00:00 Tools
Part 5 00:00 Tools
Part 6 00:00 Tools
Part 7 00:00 Tools
Skylark Herald's Dawn 00:00 Tools
Part 8 00:00 Tools
Averoigne 00:00 Tools
Confetti 00:00 Tools
Boo, Forever 00:00 Tools
Holly 00:00 Tools
No Ghosts 00:00 Tools
River Of Heaven 00:00 Tools
celeste i 00:00 Tools
Failure's Flame 00:00 Tools
Nothing Ever After 00:00 Tools
Summoning Suns 00:00 Tools
Winter Flies 00:00 Tools
Towa No Yume 00:00 Tools
lost prayers and motionless dances 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 1 00:00 Tools
White Goddess 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 2 00:00 Tools
Death of V 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 3 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 4 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 5 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 6 00:00 Tools
Celeste Part 1 (open C minor tuning) 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 7 00:00 Tools
The Broken Hourglass 00:00 Tools
Granite and Wineglass 00:00 Tools
Celeste Part 2 (open C minor tuning) 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 8 00:00 Tools
Cherry Blossom Battle Hymns 00:00 Tools
Grand Canyon Of The Yellowstone 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 9 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 10 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 11 00:00 Tools
Soul Sucked Dry 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 12 00:00 Tools
Night Time Vineyards 00:00 Tools
Memories of the Fox-Headed Boy 00:00 Tools
Apologia 00:00 Tools
Red Rag 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt 1 (Open C Major Tuning) 00:00 Tools
Charlie Fang’s Blues 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt 2 (Open C Minor Tuning) 00:00 Tools
Spiralling Skeleton Memorial (Live) 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 1 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 2 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 3 00:00 Tools
Celeste I (live) 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 4 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 6 00:00 Tools
Cloud of Unknowing, The 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 5 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 7 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 8 00:00 Tools
Infinite Cricle 00:00 Tools
Cross (edit) 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 9 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 11 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 10 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 12 00:00 Tools
Mirror Speaks, The 00:00 Tools
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Celeste (Part I) 00:00 Tools
20100817_specialmusic_jb02 00:00 Tools
Cherry Blossom Battle Hymn 00:00 Tools
Celeste pt. 1 (open c minor tuning) 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 13 00:00 Tools
Celeste Part I 00:00 Tools
Granite & Wineglass 00:00 Tools
20100817_specialmusic_jb04 00:00 Tools
20100817_specialmusic_jb03 00:00 Tools
Celeste Part 1 00:00 Tools
Celeste (Part II) 00:00 Tools
20100817_specialmusic_jb05 00:00 Tools
Charlie Fang's Blues 00:00 Tools
River of Heaven - James Blackshaw 00:00 Tools
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20100817_specialmusic_jb06 00:00 Tools
Skylark Hearld's Dawn 00:00 Tools
James Blackshaw - White Goddess 00:00 Tools
James Blackshaw - Death of V. 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling, Part 5 00:00 Tools
Celeste Part II 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 13 00:00 Tools
Part I 00:00 Tools
Celeste Part 2 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling (Part 7 Edit) 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling, Part 1 00:00 Tools
James Blackshaw - Granite & Wineglass 00:00 Tools
Part II 00:00 Tools
Cross (from Glass Bead Game) 00:00 Tools
James Blackshaw - Cherry Blossom Battle Hymn 00:00 Tools
20100817_specialmusic_jb08 00:00 Tools
Le Faux Magistrat, Pt. 7 00:00 Tools
Part III 00:00 Tools
Part IV 00:00 Tools
Davenport - Shaking Job's Tears 00:00 Tools
Part V 00:00 Tools
Part VI 00:00 Tools
Part VII 00:00 Tools
Davenport - Same Junk Totem 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Part VIII 00:00 Tools
Celeste, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling, Part 4 00:00 Tools
Last Prayers And Moitionless Dances 00:00 Tools
celeste pt. 1 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling, Part 3 00:00 Tools
All is Falling, Part 7 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling, Part 6 00:00 Tools
untitled track 00:00 Tools
Part IX 00:00 Tools
02 - Celeste I 00:00 Tools
Celeste, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
All is Falling, Part 8 00:00 Tools
Part X 00:00 Tools
Part XII 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt.1 (Open C Minor Tuning) 00:00 Tools
03 - Transient Life in Twilight 00:00 Tools
Part XI 00:00 Tools
Part XIII 00:00 Tools
Part 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 4 00:00 Tools
01 - Cross 00:00 Tools
Sunshrine [Tuning: CGCGCF] 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 2 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling, Pt. 7 (Edit) 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 1 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 3 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 5 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 6 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 7 00:00 Tools
02 - Bled 00:00 Tools
River Of Heaven (Album) 00:00 Tools
Celeste, Part 2 (Open C Minor Tuning) 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 9 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 8 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 10 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 11 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt. 2 (Open C Minor Tuning) 00:00 Tools
Venant 00:00 Tools
celeste 00:00 Tools
03 - Fix 00:00 Tools
Celeste, Part 1 (Open C Major Tuning) 00:00 Tools
Cross (The Glass Bead Game) 00:00 Tools
Tascheter 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 12 00:00 Tools
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 13 00:00 Tools
04 - Key 00:00 Tools
05 - Arc 00:00 Tools
The Cloud of Unknowing (Sleepover Shows) 00:00 Tools
holly ep (album preview) 00:00 Tools
celeste pt 1 00:00 Tools
Satevis 00:00 Tools
Celeste, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death 00:00 Tools
Haftorang 00:00 Tools
love is the plan, the plan is 00:00 Tools
celeste PT1 00:00 Tools
Celeste, Part 2 00:00 Tools
River of Heaven (Sleepover Shows) 00:00 Tools
celeste pt 2 00:00 Tools
Part 9 00:00 Tools
Part 10 00:00 Tools
"Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" (SSG Music Premiere) 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Sunshrine (live) 00:00 Tools
Transient Elk at Twilight 00:00 Tools
1. Cross 00:00 Tools
Part 11 00:00 Tools
Cross (Full Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt2 00:00 Tools
Transient Life In Twilight - Hub Session 02/07/2008 00:00 Tools
River Of Heaven - Hub Session 03/07/2008 00:00 Tools
River Of Heaven [Album] 00:00 Tools
the snows are melted, the snow 00:00 Tools
05 - Shroud 00:00 Tools
James Blackshaw - Cross (edit) 00:00 Tools
James Blackshaw - Infinite Circle 00:00 Tools
and i have come upon this plac 00:00 Tools
2. Bled 00:00 Tools
Celeste, Pt. I 00:00 Tools
Sunshine 00:00 Tools
Yellow Crane Terrace 00:00 Tools
3. Fix 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt. 1 (Open C Major Tuning) 00:00 Tools
Part 12 00:00 Tools
Part 13 00:00 Tools
5. Arc 00:00 Tools
The Cloud of Unknowing (album excerpts) 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt.2 00:00 Tools
Spiraling Skeleton Memorial 00:00 Tools
4. Key 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling (Part 5) 00:00 Tools
Part 7 (edit) 00:00 Tools
Spiralling Skeleton Memorial - Live 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt 1 (Open C Major Tun 00:00 Tools
Part 7 Edit 00:00 Tools
02 James Blackshaw 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part One 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling (Part 6) 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling (Part 7) 00:00 Tools
Granite & Wine Glass 00:00 Tools
all is falling pt.1 00:00 Tools
Episode 168 - May 27th, 2009 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Three 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Two 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling (Part 4) 00:00 Tools
01 James Blackshaw 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling (Part 3) 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Thirteen 00:00 Tools
Celeste, Pt.2 00:00 Tools
Boo, Forever [Bonus Track for Japan] 00:00 Tools
Celeste (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt. 1 - Open C Minor Tuning 00:00 Tools
Celeste (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
skylark heral'd dawn 00:00 Tools
01 - celeste pt 1 (open c major tuning) 00:00 Tools
James Blackshaw - Running To The Ghost 00:00 Tools
Noise Problems 00:00 Tools
Live at Festival of Endless Gratitude 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Eight 00:00 Tools
Synonym For Vestige 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Six 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Four 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Nine 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Eleven 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Ten 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Five 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le faux magistrat, pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Twelve 00:00 Tools
Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat, Part Seven 00:00 Tools
Holly [Bonus Track for Japan] 00:00 Tools
All Is Falling (Part 8) 00:00 Tools
James Blackshaw 00:00 Tools
Three Interlopers 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt 2 (Open C Minor Tun 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le faux magistrat, pt. 5 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le faux magistrat, pt. 6 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le faux magistrat, pt. 9 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le faux magistrat, pt. 7 00:00 Tools
Running To The Ghost (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Cloud Of Unknowing (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le faux magistrat, pt. 10 00:00 Tools
Spiralling Skeleton Memorial [Live] 00:00 Tools
Infinite Circles 00:00 Tools
No Ghosts - James Blackshaw 00:00 Tools
Needle Exchange 029 00:00 Tools
Celeste Pt. 2 - Open C Major Tuning 00:00 Tools
Lost Prayers Motionless Dances 00:00 Tools
blackshaw_otrue 00:00 Tools
02 - celeste pt 2 (open c minor tuning) 00:00 Tools
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Fantomas : Le Faux Magistrat (Part 9) 00:00 Tools
M 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat, Pt. 3 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le faux magistrat, pt. 3 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le faux magistrat, pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Fantômas : Le faux magistrat, pt. 4 00:00 Tools
Fantômas Le Faux Magistrat Part 13 00:00 Tools
Confetti / Summoning Suns / 2015 00:00 Tools
Los Prayers & Motionless Dances 00:00 Tools
Running To The Ghost- 00:00 Tools
James Blackshaw - The Mirror Speaks 00:00 Tools
02 - Part 2 00:00 Tools
transientelk 00:00 Tools
01 - Part 1 00:00 Tools
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06 - Part 6 00:00 Tools
01 - Transient Life In Twilight 00:00 Tools
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James Blackshaw (born in London in 1981) is a British guitarist and pianist currently based in Hastings, Sussex. He is highly-regarded for his pieces for solo 12-string guitar, nylon-string classical guitar and piano. Strongly inspired by the 60s Takoma school of guitarists, minimalist composers and European classical music, Blackshaw employs fingerpicking techniques to create drones, overtones and repeating patterns, alongside a strong inclination for melody, to create instrumental music that is both intelligent, hypnotic and emotional. Born in London, United Kingdom in 1981, Blackshaw has released a range of solo studio albums, plus EPs and live recordings, and has appeared on numerous compilations since 2003. Throughout he has received praise, and earned places on Best of Year lists from online and printed publications such as Pitchfork, Billboard, The Wire, The Observer, The Times, Uncut, The New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Onion, Magnet and Acoustic Guitar Magazine among others. Blackshaw has performed and recorded as a member of Current 93 and with Jozef van Wissem as Brethren of the Free Spirit and toured and played shows with artists such as Swans (whose Michael Gira signed Blackshaw to his Young God label to release two albums in 2009 and 2010), Grails, Meg Baird (Espers), Mountains, Glenn Jones, Sir Richard Bishop, José González, Peter Walker, Alex de Grassi, Lubomyr Melnyk and Hauschka. He has toured extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan, playing such institutions as the ICA, the Barbican and Merkin Hall, NYC as part of the New York Guitar Festival. Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, invited Blackshaw to perform at All Tomorrow's Parties 2010. His music has been featured multiple times on National Public Radio in the US, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 and has been used both on TV and in one feature length film, Sebbe. Important Records released Love Is the Plan, The Plan Is Death, James Blackshaw's ninth studio album on CD/LP in 2012. jamesblackshaw.tumblr.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.