Close your eyes and listen

Published 2006-05-17    Printer-friendly version

You've gotta love the creative spirit.

Hard to find much on the web about this guitarist, but I eventually tracked down a short bio:

Hannes Coetzee’s is a soft-spoken 72-year old whose job is tapping the aloes that grow around his Karoo hometown of Herberstdale (South Africa) for their medicinal juice. Hannes composes his own songs and learnt to play the guitar on the side of the hill when the aloes were too dry to tap and to keep himself company on long lonely evenings in the mountains of the Kamiesbeg. The only known practitioner of the ‘optel and knyp’style he must rank as one of the most unusual slide guitarists in the world. If you shut your eyes you would think that there were two people accompanying each other on guitars.

And if you're a Gypzy Jazz/Django Reinhardt fan, open your eyes again and check out this awesome video of Joscho Stephan.

HT: Jeff Slarve

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