Review of Ice by Dai Fujikura, Kairos, 2013 “For many composers who are not guitarists, writing for the instrument can be a nightmare — it teases with its broad expressive possibilities but can also be fickle. Dai Fujikura, however, embraces the guitar’s idiosyncratic nature.“* The notes written by guitarist Daniel Lippel, one of the leading…
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#Review of Tilt by The Great Harry Hillman, Cuneiform Records, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Tilt by The Great Harry Hillman, Cuneiform Records, 2017 Is it time for post-jazz, after post-rock? This record of the Swiss quartet The Great Harry Hillman makes me think about this. Their music is a really intriguing jumble that resembles both the Tortoise debut as well as the visions of 70’s and 80’s…
#Review of Edit Peptide by Bubblemath, Cuneiform Records, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Edit Peptide by Bubblemath, Cuneiform Records, 2017 What are the problems that you might encounter by listening to music that is easily identified in popular music genres? I think is the fact that those very specific genres in terms of musical structure are often alien to change, retaining a conservative attitude that in…
#Review of The Music of Carla Bley by Andrea Massaria and Bruce Ditmas, Nusica.org, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of The Music of Carla Bley by Andrea Massaria and Bruce Ditmas, Nusica.org, 2016 I have to confess that I feel myself a little bit excited writing these notes about the cd produced by the duo composed by Andrea Massaria and Bruce Ditmas, playing the music of the great Carla Bley. I’m thrilled…
#Review of Imaginary Guitars by Tim Brady (1992, Justin Time Records JTR 8440-2) on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Imaginary Guitars by Tim Brady (1992, Justin Time Records JTR 8440-2) “For me, Strange Attractors or Imaginary Guitars are just as much contemporary music CDs as the recent works. All this music has been written down, and I’m even selling the scores. Obviously the use of electric guitar is a problem, as usual….
#Review of Strange Attractors by Tim Brady (1997, Justin Time Records JTR 8464-2) on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Strange Attractors by Tim Brady (1997, Justin Time Records JTR 8464-2) In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of numerical values toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system. System values that get close enough to the attractor values remain close even if slightly disturbed…An…
#Review of Playing Guitar: Symphony #1 by Tim Brady (2004, Ambiances Magnétiques AM 125 CD) on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Playing Guitar: Symphony #1 by Tim Brady (2004, Ambiances Magnétiques AM 125 CD) Timothy Wesley John Brady (born July 11, 1956 in Montréal) is a Canadian composer and guitarist, mainly working in contemporary and experimental music (though his name is in the Penguin Jazz Guide), and in his compositions uses a variety of…
#Review of Maledetti by Enrico Merlin Valerio Scrignoli electric guitar duo, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Maledetti by Enrico Merlin Valerio Scrignoli electric guitar duo, 2017 This is such a problem. I’m listening to this work recorded by the “dynamic duo” Enrico Merlin and Valerio Scrignoli devoted to one of the most ever beloved and controversial Italian bands : the Area. OK. I try to write, I listen and…
#Review of Etymo by Luca Francesconi (2008, KAIROS Production 0012712KAI) on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Etymo by Luca Francesconi (2008, KAIROS Production 0012712KAI) The Italian composer Luca Francesconi has a respectable curriculum since studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio, who also served as assistant between 1981 and 1984, and was the director of the Biennale Musica in Venice. Like his mentors Francesconi seems determined to extend the…
#Review of Aufs Paradies by Agustin Castilla-Avila, 2014 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Aufs Paradies by Agustin Castilla-Avila, 2014 It’s a quiet and relaxing italian spring evening and I’m sitting on the couch in my studio, listening to this record and thinking about the “rentless pursuit of the tone…”, a pursuit that every guitar player, it doesn’t matter if he plays and electric, an acoustic or…
#Review of Nostalgia by Agustín Castilla-Ávila, Zay Records, 2013 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Nostalgia by Agustín Castilla-Ávila, Zay Records, 2013 Agustín Castilla-Ávila is a Spanish composer, born in Jerez de la Frontera, where he began his musical studies at its conservatoire. Later he entered Conservatorio Superior de Sevilla obtaining the Titulo Superior de Guitarra with Professor J. Calero. In 1998 he was the first guitarist to…
#Review of Agustin Barrios Medallon Antiguo by Enea Leone, Stradivarius 2013 on #neuguitars #blog
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…
