Chat med akustiska gitarristen Gwenifer Raymond

För några veckor sedan presenterade jag den mycket duktiga gitarristen
Gwenifer Raymond. På 60-talet lyssnade jag mycket på den fantastiske
amerikanske akustiska gitarristen Leo Kottke, framför allt hans LP "Six
and twelve string guitar". Så här beskrev The Guardians recensent Gwenifer:

"Gwenifer has a PhD in astrophysics, lives in Brighton and designs video games for a living. 
No ordinary human, she also has mercury in her fingertips. Having discovered the guitar 
aged eight, when her mother gave her a cassette of Nirvana’s Nevermind, Raymond traced
 the idols of her idols back to the Delta blues, and then sideways into this folk form. 
Her immersive debut album pays tribute to the Delta and Appalachia at the same time,
on the banjo workouts Bleeding Finger Blues and Idumea, and raises a battered hat to 
the godfather of the primitive scene on Requiem for John Fahey"

Gwenifers "Sometimes There's Blood" kom på en tredje plats på Poplistan
vecka 30-31. Jag kände att det kunde få en kort chat med henne och bad

henne berätta något om hur denna sång kom till:

Hey there! 'Sometimes There's Blood' is a song that named itself. In writing
instrumental music, often I can find it difficult to decide on what the pieces
should be called. However, with 'Sometimes There's Blood' the name just
directly entered into my brain from no known place, but seemed to fit perfectly.
I think it is often true that instrumental music like American Primitive speaks more
directly to the subconscious and brings form to some feeling and emotion that
can't be articulated verbally. In the case of this song, acute drama on the very top
with an underlying sense of dreadful unease underneath, maybe; waiting for some
uncertain thing.