http://www.lizardrecords.it/officina-f-lli-seravalle-tajs/ Seravalle Brothers’s Workshop (Officina) is a curious place. Basically it is one of those places where memories accumulate in neat piles along the walls, closer and around tools, and where they are found, reread, interrogated and re-proposed in new and curious ways. By doing this, the Workshop also fulfills another task: it not only…
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Sonic Madonna or CICCONE YOUTH? «The Whitey Album» Blast First, ed/lp, 1988 on #neuguitars #blog
Ciccone Youth. Sonic Youth. Sonic Ciccone. What is it like to listen to the Whitey Album more than thirty years after its release? At the time it was a blast! How? Sonic Youth!? The sonic ensigns, bearers of the avant-garde New York rock scene payed homage to Madonna, the lady of pop par excellence?! You…
Voice and guitars, two examples of possible contemporaneity: Beek! by Jakapi-Praestholm-Soo and Sul Filo by Iva Bittova and Paolo Angeli on #neuguitars #blog
https://jakapi-praestholm-soo.bandcamp.com/releases https://angelimanucheproductions.bandcamp.com/album/sul-filo What happens when the voice is not used as a voice and the guitar is not used as a guitar? In a nutshell what happens when voice and guitar are not used idiomatically? It happens that we enter unknown and exciting territories where the combinations and possibilities can be infinite with the the…
The conceptual complexity of Brian Ferneyhough. A mirror of our times on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.kairos-music.com/cds/0013072kai Over the past two or three decades, Brian Ferneyhough’s (1943) music has taken on an almost fetishistic quality. Although he isn’t one of the most represented living composers in the world (although the darkness of his music can be overstated), he is still one of the most frequently cited references among contemporary composers, both…
Simona Armenise’s electric guitar on #neuguitars #blog
http://newmodellabel.com/simona-armenise-feat-ares-tavolazzi-lotus-sedimentations/ https://simonaarmenise.bandcamp.com/releases I have to make amends. I receive many messages and emails from guitarists and record labels who offer me their music, often and willingly with a link on Spotify (which I don’t use) or on Bandcamp or on Soundcloud. Often and willingly these are interesting projects but it’is almost impossible for me to…
Peter Söderberg’s musical adventure on #neuguitars #blog
Peter Söderberg has always been an adventurous musician. As a lutist he recorded both Renaissance and Baroque music, but he also appeared on several contemporary music records. He also played in some jazz bands and also as a guitarist he played a lot of contemporary repertoire. I have two of his CDs in my archive…
The artistic parable of Stian Westerhus on #neuguitars #blog
“Today, however, the new shining star of the guitar is the audacious and fearless Stian Westerhus (born in 1979), winner with the Puma trio of JazzIntro in 2006. In the short span of a few years his artistic growth was inexorable. After the intriguing project with the Indian singer Swati Natekar, commissioned by BBC radio,…
Nippon Kokoro: Akira Ifukube – Works for Guitar and Baroque Lute, Fontec, 1991 on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.akiraifukube.org/home.htm 1 Toka, Cantilena Ballabile Sul Mode Antico di Giappone 2 Toccata Per Chitarra 3 Kugoka, Aria Concertata Di Kugo-Arpa 4 Fantasia For Baroque Lute Composed By – Akira Ifukube Guitar – Yoh Nishimura (tracks: 1-3) Lute [Baroque] – Deborah Minkin (tracks: 4) Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭 Ifukube Akira; Kushiro, 31 maggio 1914 – Tokyo,…
Dither, the electric guitar quartet from New York on #neuguitars #blog
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…
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…
