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The result is a provocative soundscape that features a mixture of acoustic and electric guitars Creatively restless, Frisell is best suited for exploring vast territory and responding with imaginative integrity, which is evidenced on "Disfarmer. The results are gently beautiful. Frisell, you may know: He's a guitar tactician with warmth and a composer of unclassifiable songs.

As a solo artist, Frisell is known largely for drawing upon the affects of Americana—folk, country and western, what-have-you—in ways you wouldn't immediately call jazz, but which draw from jazz in a way that implies no better descriptor. Mike Disfarmer was born Michael Meyers in , the sixth of seven children in a family of German immigrant farmers in Arkansas. As he grew older, he came to reject both his family and its agrarian lifestyle. A tornado, he once claimed, uprooted him from his birth parents and blew him into the Meyers household.

So he chose a new surname. Upon learning, somewhat incorrectly, that the German word "meyer" translated to "farmer" in English, he reasoned that he could only be called an anti-farmer, or Disfarmer. In other words, Disfarmer was something of an eccentric, and a recluse to boot. But he was also an artist: Disfarmer ran a portrait photography studio in rural Heber Springs, Ark.

Thousands of black-and-white images captured his fellow townspeople from the years preceding the Great Depression to the period following WWII. And something about the solemn, stark plainness to his style lent his subjects an unexpected intimacy, ensuring his legacy as one of America's great outsider artists.

Disfarmer died in , but his photographs were eventually rediscovered, exhibited and anthologized. Sure enough, when Helm introduced Frisell to Disfarmer's oeuvre, the guitarist went on to create a touring multimedia work, scoring a slideshow of Disfarmer images. The recording of that music, on Frisell's latest album Disfarmer, is what you can hear here in its entirety. It's filled with the sounds of a 21st-century string band: Greg Leisz's mandolin and pedal-steel atmospherics, Jenny Scheinman's sundry fiddle textures, Viktor Krauss' rich acoustic bass plucking.

And then there's Frisell, the quiet tactician of the electric guitar, who engineers loops and subtle distortions with phrasing you never knew you were expecting.

There are evocative original themes and motifs here, surrounded by backgrounds sounding distant echoes of country, bluegrass and old-time mountain music. It's a record alternately spare and full, languid and rollicking, pastoral and urbanely produced. And it's all in service to the work of the enigmatic Arkansas photographer Mike Disfarmer. We'll never know, but as I write the music, I'd like to imagine it coming from his point of view.

The sound of him looking through the lens. Disfarmer, who died in , was a weird genius of photography who took haunting, beautiful and mysterious portraits of the folks in his hometown of Heber Springs, Ark. Disfarmer's photos tipped the paper boat into the water for the always innovative guitarist Frisell, but Disfarmer is more than a soundtrack to a collection of photos. Frisell took a road trip from North Carolina to Arkansas to initiate the project. In both song selection and instrumentation the album reflects that movement.

Not only is there a continuity in Disfarmer's work the crisp black-and-white detail, the stillness of the subjects but there's also great range. Similarly Frisell's pieces flow together despite great variance in their tones. Some, like the opening Disfarmer's Theme, reflect the stoic darkness portrayed in the photos while others are more colorful.

Is That You? Before We Were Born. Lookout For Hope. In Line. Jerry Granelli - Dance Hall. Allen Toussaint - American Tunes. John Zorn - Mocking Bird. Carrie Rodriguez - Lola.

Kermit Driscoll - Reveille. Ron Miles - Circuit Rider. Sam Amidon - Lily-O. Jenny Scheinman - The Littlest Prisoner. Greg Cohen - Golden State. Joey Baron - Just Listen. John Zorn - The Mysteries.

Jakob Bro - December Song. Jon Cowherd - Mercy. John Zorn - The Gnostic Preludes. Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream. Streams Videos All Posts. My Profile. Advanced Search. Disfarmer Review by Thom Jurek. Track Listing.

Disfarmer Theme. Bill Frisell. Lonely Man. Lost, Night. Peter Miller's Discovery. That's Alright, Mama. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup. Little Girl. Little Boy. No One Gets In. Lovesick Blues.

Hank Williams. Shutter, Dream. The Wizard. I Am Not a Farmer. Small Town. Arkansas, Pt. Lost Again, Dark. Natural Light.