Label: Permanent Green Light – none
Format: Cassette
Country: US
Released: 2026
Genre: Classical, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Acoustic, Experimental, Folk, Field Recording
Sublime, warm-hued guitar soli Portland’s Bob Desaulniers - a genuinely jaw-dropping and inexplicably accomplished solo album recorded in very humble surroundings.
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that there are people of extreme talent, quietly sat at home, writing and recording their own music, worlds away from the commercial music industrial complex and humbly sharing it with anyone who wants to listen. Desaulniers is exactly that. On first hearing Frames Within Frames, you could easily mistake it for lost and mysterious acoustic grail - think Gimmer Nicholson’s sole late 60’s LP Christopher Idylls or Rolando Chia’s stripped-back Sara Juega Y… - leaving it hard to place on the time spectrum. Yet Desaulniers doesn’t rely on any obfuscation tactics here, his majestic finger-picking is out front and centre, crafting wonderfully lyrical phrases that evoke scenes of golden hour prairies. The unadorned compositions often have a long cyclical arc, recalling Uematsu's self-contained sound-world miniatures, always eventually coming back to find themselves. It’s not everyday you’re met with something so brilliantly accomplished and unassuming - a total future classic. (Mint / New - with free DL).
Tracklist
1. Shining Forth 01:43
2. Waving From My Window 01:52
3. Guess I'll Go Away 03:05
4. Inoshishi 02:22
5. Dressage 02:50
6. September 03:03
7. Frames Within Frames 04:07
8. Chateau Shadows 00:55
9. Cleaved Water 03:47
10. Passersby 01:49
11. Light Walls 03:59
