No Love Is Sorrow is the latest album by American guitarist-singer-songwriter Buck Curran. Since 2005, Buck has recorded and performed as one half of the Alt-folk duo Arborea and as a Solo Artist. To date, Arborea has released five albums, including Red Planet (SAAH 2011) (Rolling Stone Magazine Best 'Under-the-Radar' Albums of 2011, Guitar Player Magazine Editors Top Pick 2011), Fortress of the Sun (ESP-Disk 2013) (All Music Favorite Folk & Favorite Singer-Songwriter Albums 2013, Acoustic Guitar Magazine Best Acoustic Albums of 2013, Echoes Best of 2013 Listeners Poll). Buck has also produced several various artists compilations: We Are All One, In the Sun: a tribute to Robbie Basho (2010), Basket Full of Dragons - a Tribute to Robbie Basho Vol II (2016), Ten Years Gone: A Tribute to Jack Rose (Tompkins Square 2019), Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans (2023), along with the archival live recording; Robbie Basho Live in Forlì, Italy 1982 (2018).
Buck has developed his intimate, intense and engaging approach to live concerts through two decades of playing and touring extensively throughout the US, UK, and Europe with Arborea and Solo. Festival highlights include: Green Man Festival, Moseley Folk Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Hopscotch Festival, etc). He also draws inspiration from the deep well of Folk and Rock from the 1960s (Robbie Basho, Bert Jansch, Peter Green, Tim Buckley, Sandy Denny, etc.)
In 2016 Buck released his first solo album Immortal Light, followed by Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas (listed among the 'Best Albums of 2018' according to Folk Radio UK and Aquarium Drunkard (Los Angeles).
In April of 2020 Curran released his third solo album No Love Is Sorrow. Later that month he was interviewed by Jason Woodbury for Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. In May 2020, Premier Guitar Magazine published a feature article and NPR published a Tiny Desk Concert recorded at Buck's apartment in Bergamo, Italy. No Love is Sorrow was also listed among the 'Best Albums of 2020' by Folk Radio UK and Aquarium Drunkard. In 2023 Curran released Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity, an album of selected improvisations from 2017 to 2022.
Guitar tones linger and reverberate with a mystical translucence
~ Dusted Mag
The elegant tones that neo-folk artist Buck Curran draws from voice and guitar have a capacity to linger in the air long after the notes have faded. Recorded at the American guitarist's home in northern Italy shortly before the area went into lockdown, 'No Love Is Sorrow' is a beautiful piece of work, interspersing space, atmospheric instrumentals with more complete songs like spooky western "Ghost On The Hill', the ballad "Deep In The Lovin' Arms of My Babe'" and the title track. Curran sings with the gravelly decorum of Mark Lanegan but the songs remain, bewitchingly, just over the next horizon
~ 8/10 Peter Watts/UNCUT Magazine
There's a burning darkness to these songs, as Curran's rough-hewn voice and droning psych-folk melodies curl like smoke, but there's also a desperate hope that cracks the surface
~Lars Gotrich/NPR-Tiny Desk
Curran’s music invokes swarming natural forces, looking for the borderline between the real and the sublime and, maybe, the supernatural
~ Jesse Jarnow/Relix Magazine
The album's stunning title track is the perfect song to throw on and daydream to. An immaculately constructed, seven-minute acoustic soundscape, this is a piece of music that plays like a great novel, whisking you away to an environment far from your own, and never letting go
~Jackson Maxwell/Guitar World Magazine
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/01/848334544/buck-curran-tiny-desk-home-concert
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Liam Grant is an acoustic guitar player with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. He made his debut in 2021 with his album "Swung Heavy: Gitarr for Fanatics," released through the Sound-O-Mat label, which was met with seemingly endless touring through 2022. A split 7in single with Mike Gangloff of the veteran improvisers, Pelt, was released in January 2023, and his full length LP "Amoskeag" is in the process of being released through Carbon Records.
https://liamgrant.sound-o-mat.com/
https://liamgrant.bandcamp.com/album/swung-heavy-gitarr-for-fanatics