Category: Rhys Chatham
#Review of I Never Meta Guitar Four, Clean Feed, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of I Never Meta Guitar Four, Clean Feed, 2017 https://cleanfeed-records.com/product/i-never-metaguitar-four/ So, this is the fourth volume of this lucky cd series, which I admit to be a real fan. Since the release of the first cd in 2010, titled “Never MetA Guitar Solo Guitars for the 21st Century”, I have gained a great deal…
#Recensione di I Never Meta Guitar Four, Clean Feed, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Recensione di I Never Meta Guitar Four, Clean Feed, 2017 https://cleanfeed-records.com/product/i-never-metaguitar-four/ E siamo, già, al quarto volume di questa fortunata serie di cd, di cui ammetto di essere un fan dichiarato. Fin dall’uscita del primo cd nel 2010, intitolato I Never MetA Guitar Solo Guitars for the 21st Century, ho infatti maturato una grande attenzione…
An Angel Moves Too Fast to See by Rhys Chatham, Table Of The Elements, 2006
A work for 100 electric guitars. Not bad, am I right? Try to imagine the sound, beautiful, massive, and at the same time cheerful, playful, immediate. The idea for this music made by Rhys Chatham in 1989 was to involve the guitarists by offering them the opportunity to perform with an orchestra, most of who…
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Rhys Chatham (born September 19, 1952) is an American composer, guitarist, trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist (flutes in C, alto and bass, keyboard), primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his “guitar orchestra” compositions. He has lived in France since 1987. http://www.rhyschatham.net/
A Crimson Grail di Rhys Chatham, Table Of The Elements, 2007
Four hundred electric guitars that sing a hymn to the eternal music. Four hundred electric guitars on the steps of Sacre Coeur in Paris, the night of the first October 2005. 2400 strings that vibrate in unison creating a unique, powerful, exciting, touching sound … … This work comes from a recording of four hundred…
Die Donnergötter by Rhys Chatham, Dossier Records, 1988
“For an art music audience, both ‘Guitar Trio’ and ‘Drastic Classicism’ were vigorous new strains of overtone-based minimalism, lyrical in content and structurally austere, which synthesized two different musics to arrive at a striking new form (…) what the musicians in my ensemble were hearing as a kind of viscous, gelatinous sphere of shimmering overtones,…
