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blues
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guitarist/improviser
Nur Michael Keith-
-musician/guitarist/improviser/spiritual seeker.
-started as a punk guitarist in the 80's but later moved to the blues.
-toured and performed constantly in the blues through the 90's.
-by the 00's was completely devoted to free improvisation .
much recording and some International performances
-from 2018 to 2025 lived on a small island in BC Canada.
-many local gigs and much recording of a hybrid type of original music occured.
-currently based in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia.
-has studied and investigated numerous world instruments and their music. Kurdish Iranian tanbour, South Indian veena and the Chinese guqin.
-has performed throughout Canada as well as Taiwan, France and Italy.
michaels music is a deep spiritual and devotional practice that is always moving.
meditative
Music created in and for meditative/completive and flow states .
MIchael also creates music for Evolutionary Astrolger
Iris Gildea and Madronas Pulse
Here is a link to the music in this approach on Bandcamp.
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the blues
-has played, recorded and toured with this music since the early 90's. It is the backbone of ALL his music.
-has fond memories of playing the Blues all over Canada with standouts being the Winnepeg Folk Fest and Monteral Jazz festival.
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free improvisation and experimental
-began a fascination with freely improvised music in his early thirties.
-worked in this area very intensely for almost a decade.
-recorded and performed constantly.
-did a series of trio shows in Europe.
-continues to practice this mode of playing and continues to record
hours of it.
-recorded an album entitled "Number 9" with John Oswald and Roger Turner which was released on the Emanem label by the late Martin Davidson in the UK.
-most recent recording .
"The Lotus and the Cross"
Bandcamp
3stringguitar@gmail.com