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 […]
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 […]
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 https://www.smarogregoriadou.com/ https://delosmusic.com/recording/a-healing-fire/%5B…%5D
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 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
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 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 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 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 […]
https://stianwesterhus.bandcamp.com/ https://houseofmythology.com/releases/view/stian-westerhus-redundance Westerhus was expected. You don’t throw a record like “Amputation”, you don’t leave such a concept in suspense without the listener expecting a raise, a new episode, a continuation or a denial. One […]
http://www.ratkozjaca.com/ About one year ago I wrote a review for the record of a skilled jazz guitarist, Ratko Zjaca. The album was titled “Life on earth” and offered elegant and clean jazz, with a first-rate […]
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