http://en.dux.pl/grandinetti-rime-radziejewska-ensemble-cord-ola.html I have more and more the feeling of living in a country that is afraid of the future, complains of the present and idolizes a past that will be nothing but the present of […]
Category: Review
Very Much Alive by Paolo Vinaccia: Terje Rypdal’s rock side on #neuguitars #blog
Very Much Alive by Paolo Vinaccia: Terje Rypdal’s rock side on #neuguitars #blog https://jazzlandrec.com/very-much-alive-paolo-vinaccia What do you expect when you buy a record by a guitarist, a musician you know well? I guess you are […]
Gerard Cousins’ guitar elaborations of Philip Glass’s music on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.gerardcousins.com/ https://gerardcousins.bandcamp.com/merch/cd-escape-philip-glass-gerard-cousins-us-import If I think of Philip Glass, the excess and hyper-acceleration of modern life expressed in the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi immediately comes to mind. That film, made by Geoffrey Reggio, would like to be […]
The Return of the Orderly Nordic Conspiracy by Terje Rypdal, Conspiracy, ECM, 2020 on #neuguitars #blog
http://kvalitetsartister.no/rypdal-tekro/ https://www.ecmrecords.com/shop/1590676876 “Rypdal is an innovator who is open to exploration and proves it from the start. After the rock experiences of Bleack House, thanks to the meeting with George Russell he dedicates himself more […]
New ideas from Wendy Eisenberg: Auto on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/ https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/auto Wendy Eisenberg definitely does not cease to amaze and fascinate. I had favorably reviewed her trio album released on Tzadik, “The Machinic Unconscious”, a radical improvisation album with a high semiotic content. Now […]
We all need a healer, “A Healing Fire” by Smaro Gregoriadou on #neuguitars #blog
We all need a healer, “A Healing Fire” by Smaro Gregoriadou on #neuguitars #blog https://www.smarogregoriadou.com/ https://delosmusic.com/recording/a-healing-fire/%5B…%5D
Markus Reuter, a new concept of virtuoso on #neuguitars #blog
If someone asked me “what was Robert Fripp’s contribution to the history of music?” I would be strongly tempted to answer “his radical revision and re-evaluation of the concept of virtuoso”. To many, perhaps this […]
Henry Kaiser and John Coltrane: how to re-read the classics on #neuguitars #blog
“It was guitarists in particular, including the leading soloists of the San Francisco music scene, who were drawn to Coltrane’s album and long improvisations.” Ashley Kahn, A Love Supreme Jorge Luis Borges teaches us that […]
.O.Rang. Lee Harris and Paul Webb’s post-isolationism cult on #neuguitars #blog
It’s night as I write to you. I have on my cd player the last piece of a personal micro cult that has been accompanying me since 1994 and that today finally sees its temporal […]
Volume versus Masses, Masayuki Takayanagi plays “Axis/Another Revolvable Thing” (2LP Bundle/ 2CD), Blank Forms, 2020 on #neuguitars #blog
https://blankforms.org/ https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/ Finally! Finally another piece of the mosaic, another piece of history that finds its place. Between his emergence on the scene during the early 1950s, until his passing in 1991, Masayuki Takayanagi remained […]
Namatoulee. How to invent a world. Francesca Naibo’s debut on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.francescanaibo.com/discography/solo/ https://www.autrecords.com/store/francesca-naibo-namatoulee/ https://francescanaibo.bandcamp.com/ Before considering and analyzing this record, the debut work of Francesca Naibo, now a Lombard-Venetian guitarist, I think it could be interesting to repeat that every musician, perhaps every artist, starts from […]
Musical fragments: Taku Sugimoto and Fabio Selvafiorita on #neuguitars #blog
The Treccani encyclopedia defines the fragment as follows: “Mutilated part of a literary work that has reached us. Following the loss of ancient codices, only fragments remain of many works of Greek and Roman antiquity. […]
Orientalism and Contemporary Music, Bill Aves and John Schneider, Guitars and Gamelan on #neuguitars #blog
Masayuki Takayanagi’s New Direction: Is April the Cruellest Month? on #neuguitars #blog
Reckless. Powerful. Vital. Nonconformist. Virtuous. Free. Masayuki Takayanagi was all this and more, an incredible, uncompromising musician, whose guitar style feared no rival, not even among free screamers. Able to create music with a gravitational […]
Tribute to Alvaro Company, the right tribute to a great musician on #neuguitars #blog
Tribute to Alvaro Company, the right tribute to a great musician on #neuguitars #blog http://www.emavinci.it/service/archives/220 Alvaro Company was, and I believe still is, an important figure in the field of Italian classical guitar and in […]
A new musical bestiary, Petri Kumela’s little creatures on #neuguitars #blog
A new musical bestiary, Petri Kumela’s little creatures on #neuguitars #blog
The hopes and joys of a gardener in the music of Alessandra Novaga on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.alessandranovaga.com/ https://dieschachtelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-should-have-been-a-gardener I think I can reasonably say I know Alessandra Novaga well enough. Enough to say that she has a complex personality and a huge artistic desire. When she chooses a project, a new […]
Micro Dave “Fuze” Fiucynski e la RareNoiseRecords, suoni e microsuoni su #neuguitars #blog
Micro Dave “Fuze” Fiucynski e la RareNoiseRecords, suoni e microsuoni https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/planet-microjam/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/flam-blam-pan-asian-microjam/%5B…%5D
Micro Dave “Fuze” Fiucynski and RareNoiseRecords, sounds and micro-sounds on #neuguitars #blog
Micro Dave “Fuze” Fiucynski and RareNoiseRecords, sounds and micro-sounds https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/planet-microjam/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/flam-blam-pan-asian-microjam/%5B…%5D
Dagger Moth plays her silk: Silk around the marrow by Dagger Moth (Sara Ardizzoni) Audioglobe, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Dagger Moth plays her silk: Silk around the marrow by Dagger Moth (Sara Ardizzoni) Audioglobe, 2016 https://daggermothmusic.bandcamp.com/ http://saraardizzoni.wixsite.com/dagger-moth Listening to a record is less trivial thing than it might seem. I don’t use spotify, I […]
