Name: Amplified Guitar
Brand: Mat Ball

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-GRT-003IE

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "LP-GRT-003IE"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Indie Exclusive

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "Indie Exclusive"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

195893716586

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "195893716586"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Mat Ball

Genre US

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label US

The Garrote

The acoustic phenomenon of feedback is often taken for granted. But feedback is pretty remarkable, essentially self-generating, potentially endless, and––though unwieldy–– possible to control. As Montreal guitarist Mat Ball demonstrates, it is even possible to use feedback in the service of something elegant and soulful.

Amplified Guitar is Ball's first full-length solo recording. And though it isn't comprised entirely of feedback, it's helpful to think about it in these terms. Far from being a noise record, Amplified Guitar is an entirely musical and beautiful work and Ball's use of amplified resonance and feedback often mimics the long gestures and sustained tones of bowed or woodwind instruments. While listeners can enjoy Amplified Guitar at any volume, Ball was most assuredly turned way up when performing these pieces––each recorded in only one single take, live and unadorned, at Hotel2Tango in Montreal by Godspeed's Efrim Manuel Menuck.

Amplified Guitar

Music US