Andy Bole

English guitarist/bouzouki/multi-instrumentalist based in Sutton Coldfield (near Birmingham). He is half of Tang (8), one of the guitarists in Daevid Allen's Glissando Guitar Orchestra, member of Fret and Fiddle, and of the duo Shankar. Andy has worked with a varied amount of other musicians, and in groups, throughout the years, Daevid Allen, Hiroshi Higashi, Bill, Gilonis, Damo Suzuki, Tang, Bonfire Radicals, and The Glissando Guitar Orchestra. Bole's first album Ramshackle Pier was released back in 1986, it wasn't until 2013 that his next album, The Glorious Event, was released. Since then releases have been steadily coming, his newest being Rainbow Crow in 2017. Andy Bole's music draws from many genres, from 70's kosmische electronic music, space rock, fusion, and folk, the constant is a heavy use of Indian raga and instrumentation, such as the Bouzouki and Saz. Bole is also a fluent practitioner of glissando guitar.