http://www.ditherquartet.com/ “The quartet concept: the gravitas of four corners, circle in square, life cubed and balanced.” Elliott Sharp, from the notes in the cd “Dither” Let’s start with giving some coordinates: who is Dither? The Dither is a quartet of electric guitars based in New York, which present a complex and sophisticated DNA based on…
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Jim McAuley’s world seen through Long Song Records on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.longsongrecords.com/artists/jim-mcauley/ I approached the music of Jim McAuley indirectly. It all started with the purchase of “Vignes”made by Acoustic Guitar Trio, released by the Italian indipendent label Long Song Records way back in 2009. I admit it: I was attracted to Nils Cline and this record seemed like a good opportunity to listen to him…
Il mondo di Jim McAuley visto attraverso la Long Song Records su #neuguitars #blog
http://www.longsongrecords.com/artists/jim-mcauley/ Mi sono accostato alla musica di Jim McAuley indirettamente. Tutto è cominciato con l’acquisto di “Vignes” dell’Acoustic Guitar Trio, uscito sull’italianissima Long Song Records nel lontano 2009. Lo ammetto: ero attirato da Nils Cline e questo disco mi era sembrata una buona occasione per ascoltarlo al di fuori dei Wilco e feci bene a…
The cassettes’ return: Shimmering Behavior of IN/ELEKTRA, Industrial Coast, 2019 on #neuguitars #blog #girlspower
https://www.inelektramusic.com https://industrialcoast.bigcartel.com/product/in-elektra-shimmering-behaviour https://inelektra.bandcamp.com/releases Play.Stop. Fast-forward. Pause. Rewind. Forgotten gestures. I haven’t bought a cassete in over thirty years. And to listen to it I had to resurrect my dear old vintage Sony Walkman, yes, the Victorian forerunner of the ipods, a technology made in the ’80s that by now might sound nice to steampunk lovers….
“No Home Record”, Kim Gordon’s homeless record on #neuguitars #blog #girlspower
https://kimaltheagordon.com/ I’ll try to be diplomatic. There is more talent in one of the wrinkles that furrow the mature face of Kim Gordon, than in the erased grooves of all so-called current talents launched on Spotify. Last year I was impressed with the excellent “The Switch” released by the duo Body/Head, this year the lady…
Thurston Moore and “Spirit Counsel”‘s late style on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.thurstonmoore.com/ https://thurston-moore.lnk.to/SpiritCounselWE Thurston Moore. Thinking of ignoring Thurston Moore is the stupidest thing that a fan of guitars and experimental music can think about. An act of free ignorance. An act of free arrogance. The problem is another. Where to start? Moore is one of those artists who … well, you don’t know how he…
Diego Castro Magas’s discography on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.diegocastromagas.com/ Impressive. If you have never listened to Diego Castro Magas, get ready. He’s really awesome. I had noticed his talent a decade ago, for one of those fortuitous events that are the periodic demonstration that luck doesn’t exist. I was on the cdbaby website and I had set up a search by entering “guitar”…
Three Free Radicals: avangarde ambient music, Scott L. Miller & Mart Soo on #neuguitars #blog
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1zuab9OQ7LvbCmsUPtE97T http://www.scottlmiller.net/index.php/bio/ https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart_Soo Apparently free radicals are not quiet entities. In chemistry, a free radical is defined as a very reactive molecular entity with a very short average life, consisting of an atom or a molecule formed by several atoms, which presents an unpaired electron: this electron makes the radical extremely reactive, able to bind…
Andy Aledort and Bobby Lee Rodgers’ rock, thanks to Long Song Records,on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.longsongrecords.com/ Let’s talk about blues rock and we let’s do it by putting together two great records side by side, two records smilar for ideas, conception and spirit, and different for the approach on the electric guitar sound. In a way, listening to them is like taking a mental leap. Both are the continuation of…
Carlos Alomar’s guitar, Dream Generator on #neuguitars #blog
There are musicians who, throughout their lives, seem to work in the shadows. Talented. Determined. Never in sight. Never in the role of leader. The perfect followers. Carlo Alomar is one of these precious people. His name is closely associated with David Bowie, for whom he has long and always worked profitably, playing not only…
Godspeed You! Black Emperor on #neuguitars #blog
http://cstrecords.com/artist/godspeed-you-black-emperor/ https://godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/ I don’t want to use terms like “band” or “ensemble” to find a definition for Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I’m not even looking for a convenient definition. Their predisposition to go against all the logics present in the music scene, their way of presenting themselves with emails that looks like manifestos, their manifold…
Sunn O))), a walk between Black Sun, Monoliths & Dimension and the last Life Metal on #neuguitars #blog
Listening to the recent “Life Metal”, idolized and recommended by music critics, proved to be a valid opportunity to take a closer look at the metal world created by Sunn O))). “Life Metal” is the new chapter in their musical saga, or maybe I should say the last metallic rune, a wrinkle characterized this time…
Andy Summers and Robert Fripp. “I Advance Masked” (1982) and “Bewitched” (1984), the dynamic duo on #neuguitars #blog
We are in 1982. The success and the carrer of the Police have by now been stabilized after four great records, a more beautiful than the follower, one more important than the other. The last one, Ghost in the Machine (1981), sees them in great shape. Synchronicity, the milestone, the apogee, the definitive zenith that…
The unconscious machine and Wendy Eisenberg’s semiotic guitar on #neuguitars #blog #girlspower
https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/ http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=4027http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=4027 I met Wendy Eisenberg through one of the causally fortuitous combinations that take place on internet: a video of the youtuber Don Mount, a passionate who with almost fetishist patience built an impressive archive of concert videos held by the characters that crowd the New York underground scene. Don Mount is a crucial…
Captive, The Edge’s experimental side on #neuguitars #blog
David Howell Evans. In art, and for everyone, simply The Edge. No, we’re not talking about U2. It wouldn’t be worth it. They have had their day and rightly so, they continue to give us some decidedly trivial songs, dull photocopies of an exceptional creative period, but I grant it to them in virtue of…
Why is “Tor & Vale” by Mark Wingfield and Gary Husband (MoonJune Records 2019) labeled as “progressive” music? #neuguitars #blog
https://markwingfield-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/tor-vale-hd I admit I’m not a lover of musical generalizations, genres and easy labels. I also admit that I don’t like Genesis and instead I declare myself a Crimson King’s fan. What I don’t admit and I don’t understand, I don’t understand why in some reviews I have read about this record, the term “progressive”…
Zero23 and Ranter’s Groove, or the politics of absence, the guitar in the absence, on Kaczynski Editions on #neuguitars #blog
Zero23 and Ranter’s Groove, or the politics of absence, the guitar in the absence, on Kaczynski Editions https://kaczynskieditions.weebly.com/ https://kaczynskieditions.bandcamp.com/ Kaczynski Editions is an independent Italian record company, located in Tuscan, which started quite recently with the production of clearly experimental and avant-garde music. Zero23 and Ranter’s Groove are two of the musical realities it is…
Complexity and depth in Joe Morris’s music, Macrocom and Ultra on #neuguitars #blog
Joe Morris’s photo @ Scott Friedlander https://joemorrisritiglacialeratic.bandcamp.com/album/macrocosm https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/joe-morris-ultra Susan Sontag represents an almost enigmatic figure for me. Essayist, writer, director, political activist, the Sontag represents an inexhaustible source of contrasting ideas and points of view on today’s world. Her ideas have the merit of being interesting and current even if Sontag died in 2004 and…
RMHQ: Headquarters four lonely records by Roy Montgomery, Grapefruit, 2016
https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/r-m-h-q-headquarters Roy Montgomery is a composer, guitarist and lecturer from Christchurch, New Zealand. Montgomery was born in 1959 in London, England and moved with his family to Cologne in Germany where he lived until the age of four. His father was German and his mother was from the UK. As his mother worked for the…
Is voice & guitar duo the “new black”? “Between Us All, New American Art Songs For Voice & Guitar” The Bowers Fader Duo, 2019 New Focus Recordings on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/the-bowers-fader-duo-between-us-all/ The new album “Between Us All New American Art Songs For Voice & Guitar” by The Bowers Fader Duo suggests some interesting aesthetic questions. This record, made in 2019 by New Focus Recordings, is based on a nearly nineteenth-century-romantic formula: the duo for classical guitar and voice, in this case the guitarist Oren fader…
