Enea Leone is back with a new record devoted to classic guitar’s music, produced by the italian indipentent label Stradivarius. After the beautiful cd Souvenir dedicated to the romantic music by Coste and Regondi, released in 2011, here he plays a new work entirely dedicated to the music of Agustin Barrios, now considered one of…
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#Review of Bach, Roman, Scarlatti, Teleman, Weiss by Enea Leone, Stradivarius, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Bach, Roman, Scarlatti, Teleman, Weiss by Enea Leone, Stradivarius, 2017 I would like to try to draw your attention to an aspect that I find quite interesting: the discography of a musician. In our present society the music has ceased even the panorama function that Satie, Eno and Schafer had foreseen and partly…
#Review of Souvenir by Enea Leone, Stradivarius 2011 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Souvenir by Enea Leone, Stradivarius 2011 Very well. Lately the italian label Stradivarius had recorded several different executions for guitar, especially about contemporary music but it was some times (in 2011) that the indipendent label didn’t release anything about classical guitar music. So I’m very glad to review this exit for the…
#Review of Dither plays Zorn, John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 1, Tzadik, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Dither plays Zorn, John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 1, Tzadik, 2015 “I never told anyone anything. I set up rules where they could tell each other when to play. It’s a pretty democratic process. I really do not have any control over how long the piece is, or what happens in it. “ John…
#Review of Dither by Dither, HenceForth records, 2010
Review of Dither by Dither, HenceForth records, 2010 This cd begins in almost innocent way, several seconds of soft and impalpable, almost glitch sounds lost in a distance, force to raise the threshold of the attention, to look at the timing on the cd player, to wonder if we should rise the volume … please…
#Review of Der Wanderer by Wanderer Guitar Duo (Giacomo Copiello and Michele Tedesco), Stradivarius, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Der Wanderer by Wanderer Guitar Duo (Giacomo Copiello and Michele Tedesco), Stradivarius, 2016 Der Wanderer, the Traveler. It looks like the perfect title for a classical guitar record, especially for one like me who chose the 56th symbol of the I-ching as my own avatar. In the artistic field, however, this is definitely…
#Review of Medallon Antiguo Marco Caiazza plays Agustin Barrios, DotGuitar, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Medallon Antiguo Marco Caiazza plays Agustin Barrios, DotGuitar, 2016 What’s the impact on this monograph? Here we have a nice cd, all zipped with great music, with nineteen pieces, a nearly complete collection of works that this Paraguayan composer / guitarist, an adventurous figure, an acclaimed and discussed, exalted and denigrated concertist, an…
#Review of A Guitar Named Carla by Rüdiger Krause, Jazzwerkstatt, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of A Guitar Named Carla by Rüdiger Krause, Jazzwerkstatt, 2015 Can I say it? It was time! It was time that a guitar player took his time (and his troubles) to translate the music of the great Carla Bley for our six-stringed instrument that we love so much. This difficult and complex task has fallen to the German guitarist…
Thumbscrew, (Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara), a new idea for a trio in the contemporary jazz’s world: Thumbscrew e Convallaria on #neuguitars #blog
“what is remaining decided to float in air hanging there” Mary Halvorson in John Zorn, “Arcana VI musicians on music”, pag. 107 http://www.thumbscrew.net/ http://www.MichaelFormanek.com http://www.TomasFujiwara.com http://www.MaryHalvorson.com The recent Cuneiform Records’ release for the Thumbscrew trio’s new CD has prompted me to write these notes, linking their last effort to their homonymous cd, released for Cuneiform…
#Review of carpere fide(s) by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete, Odradek Records, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of carpere fide(s) by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete, Odradek Records http://www.odradek-records.com/ https://www.chavarria-aldrete.com/ Odradek Records is an independent American nonprofit record company devoted to the diffusion of contemporary music. In 2016 the label produced this cd, which in fact is something more: this is the first piece of an interesting recording project of a Spanish contemporary guitar…
#Review of bypass 2.1 (sonoritès avec guitare) by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete on #neuguitars #blog
Review of bypass 2.1 (sonoritès avec guitare) by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete https://www.chavarria-aldrete.com/ An impressive, a really impressive record. Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete is a very impressive guitarist with stunning stylistic and technical skills and this work is almost all made by “first word premiere recordings” of guitar works dedicated to him by several international composers such as J.L….
#review of No Time (at all) by Diego Castro Magas, 2009 on #neuguitars #blog
It seems not a day passes that the guitar showes the deep interest that “she” rises to the contemporary composers. Diego Castro Magas ‘s CD also shows this interest across the ocean and more specifically in Chile. It’s a very interesting disc, this one titled No Time (at all) and it’s for several good…
