The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration
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The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration is a tribute CD to guitarist John Fahey
released in 2007.
The sessions for the 1997 Fahey/Cul de Sac collaboration album The Epiphany of Glenn Jones
marks the first appearance of "The Great Kooniklaster" [sic
], as an Art Deco
object Fahey acquired, named, and placed in the studio to bring focus to the sessions. Fahey used the term in a variety of ways. It appeared in the introduction of the guitar instruction book The Best of John Fahey as a "KoonaKlastier Konfectionary" and also appears in Fahey's book How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life.
gave the tribute album five stars and stated "With projects like this... Fahey still seems to be leading a not-so-quiet revolution from beyond the grave."
In his review for Pitchfork Media
, Grayson Currin praised the album, calling it "a mighty tribute to a worthy subject' and "the clearest and most brazen picture of the onus and inspiration Fahey has left for modern music. Importantly, this is a tribute record, but it's not a covers record: Instead, it collects unreleased work from 11 current experimental acts that feel Fahey's influence and attempt to offer a glimpse of it here."
John Fahey (musician)
John Fahey was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the...
released in 2007.
The sessions for the 1997 Fahey/Cul de Sac collaboration album The Epiphany of Glenn Jones
The Epiphany of Glenn Jones
The Epiphany of Glenn Jones is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey and the alternative rock/Post-rock band Cul de Sac, released in 1997.-History:...
marks the first appearance of "The Great Kooniklaster" [sic
Sic
Sic—generally inside square brackets, [sic], and occasionally parentheses, —when added just after a quote or reprinted text, indicates the passage appears exactly as in the original source...
], as an Art Deco
Art Deco
Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...
object Fahey acquired, named, and placed in the studio to bring focus to the sessions. Fahey used the term in a variety of ways. It appeared in the introduction of the guitar instruction book The Best of John Fahey as a "KoonaKlastier Konfectionary" and also appears in Fahey's book How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life.
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Music critic Kris Needs of Record CollectorRecord Collector
Record Collector is the United Kingdom's longest-running monthly music magazine. It distributes both within the UK and worldwide. It started in 1979.-The early years:...
gave the tribute album five stars and stated "With projects like this... Fahey still seems to be leading a not-so-quiet revolution from beyond the grave."
In his review for Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
, Grayson Currin praised the album, calling it "a mighty tribute to a worthy subject' and "the clearest and most brazen picture of the onus and inspiration Fahey has left for modern music. Importantly, this is a tribute record, but it's not a covers record: Instead, it collects unreleased work from 11 current experimental acts that feel Fahey's influence and attempt to offer a glimpse of it here."