Interview with Andrea Dieci (Agust 2018) http://www.andreadieci.it/ Hi Andrea, welcome back to my Neuguitars blog. In our last chat in 2016, we talked about your double CD dedicated to Takemitsu, released in 2004. This year, fourteen years later, you’re back on your footsteps reinterpreting the music of this Japanese composer, why this choice? Hi Andrea,…
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#Interview with András Párniczky (Agust 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with András Párniczky (Agust 2018) Photo by Krisztina Csendes When did you start playing the guitar and why? I can’t remember exactly but it was about at the age of 15. It happened because of my classmates, who were playing at a relatively well known rock band at that time. What did you study…
#Interview with David Fiuczynski (July 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with David Fiuczynski (July 2018) http://www.planetmicrojam.com/ http://www.torsos.com/ https://www.davidfiuczynski.com/ When did you start playing the guitar and why? To be honest, my mother forced me!! 😉 I didn’t want to have anything to do with music; I started on piano when I was 7 but didn’t like it and quit when I was 9. I…
#Interview with Hans-Jürgen Gerung (July 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Hans-Jürgen Gerung (July 2018) https://www.edition-gerung.de/ Hello Hans-Jürgen – the last time we had a talk together it was on the occasion of my book “Visionary Guitars”, I think it’s time to have another chat together. You have finally released your last cd “Gesualdo & Gerung”, why did you decide to mix together your…
#Interview with Joao Carlos Victor (July 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Joao Carlos Victor (July 2018) http://www.joaocarlosvictor.com/ Welcome to the Neuguitars Blog, Joao, let’s have a talk about your music. Thank you for having me on Neuguitars Blog! When did you start playing the guitar and why? Music has always been present in my family routine. My mother is a music lover who studied…
#Interview with Sergio Sorrentino (July 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Sergio Sorrentino (July 2018) https://www.sergiosorrentinoguitarist.com/ Dear Sergio, welcome back to the blog Neuguitars, the last time we spoke here on the blog was on the occasion of your great cd dedicated entirely to Sylvano Bussotti … if I remember correctly it was a great success of criticism but also of sales, is it…
#Interview with Corona Guitar Kvartet (July 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Corona Guitar Kvartet (July 2018) http://coronaguitarkvartet.dk/ How did start your love and interest for guitar? As for most guitarists of our generation Andres Segovia, Göran Söllscher, Julian Bream were essential. But also listening to lots of rock-, folk- and jazz music played an important role for picking up the instrument in the first…
#Interview, Joe Morris, a Free Jazz Genius by Sergio Sorrentino (February 2014) on #neuguitars #blog
Joe Morris a Free Jazz Genius, interview with Sergio Sorrentino (Februrary 2014) http://www.joe-morris.com/ Joe Morris (1955 ) is one of the greatest guitarists of free jazz and free music . He has numerous albums ( for major labels such as Leo, Aum Fidelity, ECM, Rare Noise) and boasts prestigious collaborations ( Matthew Shipp , William…
#Interview with Matteo Liberatore (July 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Matteo Liberatore (July 2018) http://www.matteoliberatore.com/ Dear Matteo, welcome to the blog Neuguitars and thanks for this interview. How did you start being interested in the guitar? Thank you Andrea for this opportunity and for the invaluable work you do for our community. I started playing when I was 14. I was hanging out…
#Interview with Patrik Kleemola (June 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Patrik Kleemola (June 2018) Welcome back to the Neuguitars Blog, Patrik. I have the pleasure to know you and your music from a long time and I was impressed by the cd “ Rites & Shades guitarworks by Kai Nieminen”, how did start the idea to release? Thank you Andrea. “Rites & Shades”…
#Interview with Marco Ramelli (June 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Marco Ramelli (June 2018) http://www.marcoramelli.com/ Welcome to the Neuguitars Blog, Marco. I have the pleasure to know you and your music from a long time, I think it’s time we have a talk about your music. How did you meet Kai Nieminen? Marta Dolzadelli recorded in her CD ‘Frames’ two pieces by Kai…
#Interview for Elliot Simpson (February 2016) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview for Elliot Simpson (February 2016) http://www.elliotsimpson.net/ The first question is always the classic one: how does it start your love and interest for guitar and what instruments do you play or have you played? Well, my parents first started me with piano lessons when I was very young, so I’ve been playing music for…
#Interview with Mats Bergström (June 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Mats Bergström (June 2018) Hello Mats, welcome back to Neuguitars blog. Last time we talked about Steve Reich and minimalism, now we will talk about… well, shall we call him the greatest composer? Johann Sebastian Bach, how did your interest for Bach start? Bach was always present when I grew up. My parents,…
#Interview with Kai Nieminem (June 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Kai Nieminem (June 2018) Kai Nieminen (b. 17.3.1953) is a Finnish composer who cannot be classified under any particular school or style. Traces of impressionism, neo-romanticism and, fleetingly, even expressionism may be detected in his basically atonal music, and if necessary he is not against using devices of even more recent 20th century…
#Interview with Nico Soffiato (guitar) and Zach Swanson (double bass) (June 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Nico Soffiato (guitar) and Zach Swanson (double bass) (June 2018) http://nicosoffiato.com/ http://www.nusica.org/web/label/12-dogwood-hecates-hounds/ How did you meet and how did start the idea to create your Duo? Nico Soffiato: Zach and I met through mutual friends and we are both active in the same musical circles. We met the same way a lot of…
#Interview with Nico Soffiato (April 2014) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Nico Soffiato (April 2014) http://nicosoffiato.com/ The first question is always the classic one: how does your love and interest for guitar start and what instruments do you play or have you played? My love for music and guitar began at home, in a small town in Italy. There was a guitar lying around…
#Interview with Volkmar Zimmermann and Kristian Gantriis (May 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Volkmar Zimmermann and Kristian Gantriis http://www.gantriis.mono.net/ http://volkmarzimmermann.com/enter/ When did you start playing the guitar and why? What did you study and what is your musical background? We both started playing guitar as young kids. I started out ”classical” on the piano at eight before switching to the six-stringed at the age of 12 playing…
#Interview to Ronald Wiesauer (May 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview to Ronald Wiesauer (May 2018) http://www.ronnywiesauer.com/Ronny_Wiesauer-_classical_guitar/Home.html When did you start playing the guitar and why? I started playing guitar at an age of 5 years old. My father was a good amateur-guitarist, so music has always been around, though my father never was into classical music. I had the luck to have a very…
#Interview with Marta Dolzadelli (April 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Marta Dolzadelli (April 2018) Welcome to the Neuguitars Blog. I have the pleasure to know you and your music from a long time and I was impressed by the cd “ Rites & Shades guitarworks by Kai Nieminen”, how did start the idea to release it? After fingering, editing and premiering it in…
#Interview with Buck Curran (April 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Buck Curran (April 2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Curran https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com/ Welcome back to the Neuguitars Blog, Buck. Last time we met was in Venice in December 2016, a lot of things happened….now you live in Italy, you had a new son and a new album… Ciao Andrea…Thanks so much for taking the time to interview me again….
