Dear friends
Covid-19 is dangerously impacting the social-economic category of musicians. No concerts, poor political and social consideration, uncertain earnings. As a consequence, an ever-growing number of musicians, especially those from the experimental area, are trying to promote their music on BandCamp in digital format only. It is increasingly difficult for me to follow and review this incredible flow of music. I therefore decided to open this section on my blog Neuguitars where I propose music in digital format that I consider particularly interesting and worthy of attention. I hope you like it. Let’s support musicians. They need it.
Andrea Aguzzi
Vasilaraps (1905, Syros – ?)
Vasilaraps was a Greek composer of Ethiopian origin. He was an innovator composer of an unprecedented musical style, combining elements of the Greek rebetiko with atonality and 12note technique.
Born in 10 of May, 1905 in the suburb Skali (Ano Chora, Syros) with royal roots of the Aksumite kingdom, hence his name.
Βασιλάραψ 4 καμινέτα για ντούο κιθάρα (Four Kaminetti for Guitar Duet) by Vasilaraps, Ramble Records , 2021 on #neuguitars #blog
Four Kaminetti for Guitar Duet is a partnership between two young Greek guitarists Giannis Arapis and Themis Vasiliou.
All rights of the musicology and biological research belong to musicologist Sergei Kapiliev.
Vasilaraps (1905, Syros – ?)
Vasilaraps was a Greek composer of Ethiopian origin. He was an innovator composer of an unprecedented musical style, combining elements of the Greek rebetiko with atonality and 12note technique.
Born in 10 of May, 1905 in the suburb Skali (Ano Chora, Syros) with royal roots of the Aksumite kingdom, hence his name.
In 1920, he moved to Athens where he got involved with the hangouts of rebetiko music. Soon, he became a virtuoso of the greek folk guitar, but without recording any of his music.
In 1935 he decided to study composition near the famous Dmitri Shostakovich in Moscow, where he settled for the rest of his life (as we can guess). From that moment he changed radically and got fully integrated into the artistic circles of the country and more generally in the local way of life.
However, few years later, after he had composed several works (most of them for guitar ensembles) he got suffered from depression… more
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releases October 1, 2021
Guitars: Giannis Arapis and Themis Vasiliou.
Mastering by Mastering: Anders Peterson @ Ghostounds Mastering and Post, Stockholm, Sweden.
Design: Nick Paleologos
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