Apparently, the most recognised instrument in modern day music is the guitar. Anyone can pick it up and have a strum, though most people produce better sounds then the ones we belt out. But never mind, we aren’t overly jealous and we’re quite content with our homemade tambourine.

Some people also say that the human voice is something that can make or break a song; depending on how well the vocal sounds, it can add that little bit extra to the track. Once again, singing is not ranked highly on our list of talents – but when the karaoke bug bites, just watch hecklerspray go.

One person we’ve found who has all the musical skills that we wish to possess is the solo artist Rivulets. Using just his trusty guitar, he is yet again one of the artists making music that is sadly being ignored by everyone. Maybe there’s something naff about guitar music at the moment.

To be fair, it is literally dominating everything in the charts. Crap boy bands use a few guitar licks to swoon the ladies, soft indie boys try and become rock 'n' roll to impress anyone they can and everyone just sees a decent guitar chord as the best thing to stick in a song. Frankly, it’s a bit tedious and boring.

There are a few bright solo artists doing their own thing including: Bright Eyes, Duke Special and Newton Faulkner. Granted, not all of those artists are to our liking but they are producing music that has more passion and feeling stitched in to it than your usual desperate chart-topping twerp.

Rivulets is another one, and to be honest we don’t know much about him or his background. His Myspace literally has four songs, a tour date and a link to a website. Even a link to his website doesn’t prove much help to finding out the background and identity to this man. Though we can at least guess he doesn’t have a fan base consisting of childish girls who leave him five/six comments a day saying: “omg I love you, please come and tour near me again soon”. In many ways like our wonderful comment-leavers here at hecklerspray.

But then again, do we really need another prolific singer whose every move is documented? Sometimes our fascination with an artist usually means they’ll end up making a crap album due to the pressure placed upon their shoulders. For once, maybe it would be nice to see a successful artist who isn’t constantly hassled by the media. But because Rivulets is making such incredible music, this may be hard to stop.

Interestingly, the songs on his Myspace player are quite dated, with songs from 2002 listed, up until 2006 releases. Whilst your usual pop-suck-music can sound dated after a few years (or weeks, or days), these songs are still sounding new and fresh. Take the song Waited For You: released in 2004, the gorgeous plucking of guitar just sounds mesmerising. Producers of crap American college am-drams would love this song, perfect for when a love struck couple have a blazing row, only to see the bloke out of the relationship wait outside his woman's house with cheap flowers as he tries to win her back. He'll probably fail, as he's not a nice person, but still – at least the music will fit.

It's obviously something of a bonus that the remaining three songs are as equally beautiful. If you love acoustic chilled music, we know Rivulets is the artist for you. With a discography going back to 2002 and containing many albums and EPs, this talented individual has yet to play a bum note in his quest for musical stardom.

For more:

Rivulets Myspace