Jonathan Bockelmann: Childish Mind

Ambient is not a genre, but a way of listening

Jonathan Bockelmann © Tobias Friedauer

Let me preface this by saying the concept of a solo acoustic guitar record usually doesn’t provoke excitement in me. But I’ve followed Munich-based quasi-jazz label Squama closely over the years, and much of their stuff has been right up my alley, so when they announced Childish Mind with the first single “Lihan”, I…