Ornette Coleman’s Body Meta, forty years later “Body Meta is the first Prime Time band recording. The Dancing In Your Head release came from these sessions. The name Prime Time was given because every rehearsal was done in such a will it be or not be manner (because of the difficulty of schéduling everybody for…
Category: Review
#Reviews of Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas by Buck Curran, Obsolete Recordings, 2018 on #neuguitars #blog
Reviews of Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas by Buck Curran, Obsolete Recordings, 2018 https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/morning-haikus-afternoon-ragas Buck Curran returns with his acoustic guitars for a new album with the most intimate and delicate flavors. Let’s start with the title “Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas” which is already a declaration of intent, a clear reference to the mystical current of…
#Review of Robbie Basho – Live in Forlì- Italy 1982, Obsolete Recordings, 2017 on#neuguitars #blog
Review of Robbie Basho – Live in Forlì- Italy 1982, Obsolete Recordings, 2017 https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/robbie-basho-live-in-forl-italy-1982 I listened and listened to this record many times. It’s really exciting. Really. And for me it’s exciting under different points of view. I’m a fan of Robbie Basho. I arrived to his musicin a crossroads, after discovering John Fahey, and…
#Review of Kenji Oh – Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura · Josetsu Horikawa by Giacomo Fiore, Pinna Records, 2017 on #neuguitar #blog
Review of Kenji Oh – Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura · Josetsu Horikawa by Giacomo Fiore, Pinna Records, 2017 http://www.giacomofiore.com/projects/yoshitsune-senbon-zakura-%E2%80%A2-josetsu-horikawa http://www.pinnarecords.com/products/606358-kenji-oh-yoshitsune-senbon-zakurajosetsu-horikawa-giacomo-fiore-prepared-guitar A strange and curious meeting between different levels: the Japanese composer Kenji Oh and the Italian guitarist Giacomo Fiore, the traditional Japanese music and the Western prepared guitar, the Japanese conception of time and space and…
#Review of Les Consolationes by Helmut Lachenmann, Kairos 2008 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Les Consolationes by Helmut Lachenmann, Kairos 2008 https://www.kairos-music.com/cds/0012652kai This review covers a serious gap in my blog. It was mandatory to review this double CD of the excellent Kairos record label entirely dedicated to the music of Helmut Lachenmann. It was really obligatory, not only in consideration of the role and place that…
A Tribute to Leif Christensen, thirty years after on #neuguitars #blog
A Tribute to Leif Christensen, thirty years after. Who was Leif Christensen? Leif Christensen (1950-1988) born in Arhus, Denmark, studied the theory and history of music at Arhus University (1972), followed by guitar studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Arhus. After graduating in 1977, he completed his studies with Konrad Ragossnig at the…
#Review of Doors of Perception by Raoul Bjorkenheim – eCsTaSy, Cuneiform Records, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Doors of Perception by Raoul Bjorkenheim – eCsTaSy, Cuneiform Records, 2017 https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/doors-of-perception Being a vynil records collector, what can i say? What a great cover! This record has one of those old-fashioned covers of still would be really nice to see in a 12 “ edition, a real dada photo shoot, a collage…
Delusions and desires in No New York on #neuguitars #blog
Delusions and desires in No New York How it was to be New York in the late 70s and early 80s? A delirium. The city had become a real Gotham City, but without its beloved Batman to watch over and fight the crimes. Entire degraded, crumbling neighborhoods, territories of criminal gangs, drug dealing and in…
#Review of Ancient Greece Musical Inspirations by Rody Van Gemert, Pilfink Records, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Ancient Greece Musical Inspirations by Rody Van Gemert, Pilfink Records, 2017 http://www.pilfink.fi/app/shop/one/-/id/175 Rody van Gemert – guitar Assi Karttunen – harpsichord One of the most interesting and, I would like to add, among the most intelligent records, released in 2017. The Danish – Finnish guitarist Rody van Gemert has created a unique CD…
#Review of Aria Meccanica by Sergio Altamura, Candyrat Record, 2009 on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.candyrat.com/artists/sergioaltamura/ariameccanica/ https://sergioaltamura.bandcamp.com/ It seems that we have found an ideal games companion for Paolo Angeli. “Aria Meccanica” begins with an announcement, of those that we are usual to distractedly listen to in airports and stations, and that instead whether to point out the arrival or the departure of a convoy or an airplane speaks…
#Review by Maderna – Halffter – Borup Jørgensen by Maria Kämmerling, Paula Records, 1987 on #neuguitars #blog
Review by Maderna – Halffter – Borup Jørgensen by Maria Kämmerling, Paula Records, 1987 We are in 1987 and Maria Kämmerling makes this really excellent record, dedicated to contemporary guitar music. Even today the music that we can listen to in this CD has not yet actually entered the usual repertoire of a classical guitarist,…
#Review of Vagn Holmboe Sonatas & Intermezzi, by Maria Maria Kämmerling, Paula Records, 1983 su #neuguitars #blog
Review of Vagn Holmboe Sonatas & Intermezzi, by Maria Maria Kämmerling, Paula Records, 1983 In his excellent book “Nordic Art Music” Frederick Key Smith wrote: “Next to Carl Nielsen, Vagn Holmboe (1909-96) is arguably the most beloved and successful Danish composer to have lived during the twentieth century. As a music teacher, he had a…
Kramer, Bill Frisell, Tzadik, The Brill Building and the beauty of pop on #neuguitars #blog
Kramer, Bill Frisell, Tzadik, The Brill Building and the beauty of pop http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=4020 What the Brill Building is? It’s a building, a place, a slice of Manhattan’s surface, its physical and musical surface. Built in 1931 the Brill Building is located at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York,…
#Review of Juno Concerto by Béla Fleck, Rounder Records, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Juno Concerto by Béla Fleck, Rounder Records, 2017 I thought I saw them all, but I really missed a banjo and orchestra concert. And only a virtuoso of the banjo like Béla Fleck could think about it. The result? It doesn’t convince me too much: on the one hand we have an orchestra…
#Review of Lost Islands by Richard Parks on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Lost Islands by Richard Parks https://www.richardparkslostislands.com/ This record has a series of subtitles, the first “Lyrical pieces for classical guitar” already defines the tones used in this CD in a simple and exhaustive way. All its thirteen songs are characterized by a lyrical, almost pastoral, melodic and almost nostalgic tone. It’s a record…
#Review of Now, And Then, ECM, 2017 Pablo Marquez and Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Now, And Then, ECM, 2017 https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/1504600188/now-and-then-orchestra-della-svizzera-italiana-dennis-russell-davies What a sound! What a sound! This is a record that must be bought and listened to only for the sound that it manages to create! The ECM is confirmed as one of the record companies more attentive to the value and quality of sound recorded, releasing…
#Review of Astor Piazzolla Histoire du Tango, Cecile Daroux Pablo Marquez, Harmonia Mundi, 1999 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Astor Piazzolla Histoire du Tango, Cecile Daroux Pablo Marquez, Harmonia Mundi, 1999 En la música están, en el cordaje de la terca guitarra trabajosa, que trama en la milonga venturosa la fiesta y la inocencia del coraje. Gira en el hueco la amarilla rueda de caballos y leones, y oigo el eco de…
Stradivarius 10 records for #guitar on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.stradivarius.it/ Founded in 1988, the Stradivarius has come to the attention of the international recording market as a label specialized in Renaissance-Baroque music recordings and contemporary repertoire. This polarity of the programmatic choices, in which are intersected each time rare recordings of considerable artistic value (for example the series “Un homme de concert” that officially sanctioned…
#Review of Stefano Grondona plays Mazurkas Y Sardanas, Stradivarius, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Stefano Grondona plays Mazurkas Y Sardanas, Stradivarius, 2015 http://www.stradivarius.it/scheda.php?ID=801157037011200 Maestro Stefano Grondona spoils us. I manage this blog and I follow his music by several years and he never missed, every spring, his date with a new cd. Every year a new idea, a different repertoire, always something interesting to propose and to…
#Review of POPULISTA PRESENTS RAPHAEL ROGIŃSKI PLAYS HENRY PURCELL (FEAT OLGA MYSŁOWSKA & SEBSTIAN WITKOWSKI), Bolt, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of POPULISTA PRESENTS RAPHAEL ROGIŃSKI PLAYS HENRY PURCELL (FEAT OLGA MYSŁOWSKA & SEBSTIAN WITKOWSKI), Bolt, 2017 Polish guitarist Raphael Rogiński presents the singular ability to compel me every time to review my convictions regarding the way of interpreting music. It had already happened with his album dedicated to the great J.S. Bach in 2009 and…
