Kevin Coleman - Imaginary Conversations (2024) [Hi-Res]

"Give this one a spin if you need proof that American guitar music is still fertile ground."
- Joseph Allred

"Imaginary Conversations is an important album for Kevin. It’s exploratory, expansive, and fun, tapping into Kevin’s wide-ranging influences while making sense as a cohesive statement that is uniquely Kevin. It’s an album that will get repeated listens from me."
- Jon Camp

Centripetal Force announces the release of Kevin Coleman's Imaginary Conversations. The album will be available for preorder February 8th. The release date is March 19th. It will be available digitally, as well as on limited runs of cassettes and CDs.

Kevin Coleman is a boundless explorer within the world of American Primitive guitar music. The Nashville-based artist channels everything from Piedmont blues to improvised kosmische musik and Appalachian freak folk into his fingerstyle guitar compositions.

Coleman turned to guitar at the age of fifteen and has never ceased to evolve his artistry. Between 2017 and 2019, he served as a guitar player in the indie dreampop band So Badly, but he ultimately decided to shift his focus to solo guitar music.

Kevin Coleman’s current works are equally informed by his fingerstyle peers, like Joseph Allred and Matthew J. Rolin, as well as the grounding serenity of nature. Coleman has said about his music, “I believe our relationship with our environment can be just as emotionally affecting as any human relationship. So, I try to capture some semblance of how the natural world shapes my thoughts and emotions, as well as how I project my own emotions and ideas onto the natural world.”

Imaginary Conversations continues the new weird-Americana-folk vein he began to venture off into on his previous records—including a split cassette he released with Allred earlier this year. Throughout the album’s three sprawling tracks, Coleman weaves dazzling fantasias of fingerpicking acrobatics together with cosmic synth-infused soundscapes and rustic string ensembles. Fans of Magic Tuber Stringband, Eight Point Star, and Tacoma Park are surely bound to appreciate this dynamic and progressive-minded release.

Imaginary Conversations was mixed by Trevor Nikrant of Styrofoam Winos, who also plays mandolin, pedal steel guitar, and synthesizer. Scott Mattingly of In Place performs prepared guitar, and Jack Dungan plays fiddle.

Kevin Coleman plays six string acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, bowed banjo, organ, harmonica, piano, jaw harp, wine glasses, and percussion.

1.01 - Kevin Coleman - Mammut Americanum (7:34)
1.02 - Kevin Coleman - Truckers to Pulaski (14:25)
1.03 - Kevin Coleman - Imaginary Conversations on Fish Hatchery Rd. (18:38)