Songs awash in warm melody, deft musicianship, and ambient hypnosis populate the latest albums from Danny Paul Grody, with often little more than his acoustic guitar achieving these heights.  A founding member of instrumental masters Tarentel and the jazzy, atmospheric The Drift, his solo music has taken the minimal, circular, and trancelike aspects of his previous work and boiled them down to their essential elements, but with a newly inspired sound.  These records are largely within the vein of American Primitivism, with spacious patterns of fingerpicked guitar, but Grody's particular treatment gives the genre a dreamy sound like no other.  His most recent album, Furniture Music, is his most stripped down yet; just simply beautiful songs and a feeling like these sounds and moods were ever-present in the world and Grody simply had the ear and ability to make them manifest.  Read his description for his inspiration behind it.  His other albums are similarly high quality, but fans of this John Fahey post may enjoy this the most.

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