Eddie Van Halen: guitar hero e superuomo di massa su #neuguitars #blog ..pre-determined codes – off-kilter riffs, amelodic, chromatic strato-guitar solos, shomanic, look-at-me-vocals and faultline-punishing ur-bas – Van Halen could not fail. Julian Cope, Copendium, Faber and Faber, 2012 L’umano Eddie Van Halen se ne andato, ci ha lasciati. Commemorarlo è doveroso. Rimpiangerlo è superfluo….
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A Tribute to Eddie Van Halen: guitar hero and mass superman on #neuguitars #blog
Eddie Van Halen: guitar hero and mass superman on #neuguitars #blog ..pre-determined codes – off-kilter riffs, amelodic, chromatic strato-guitar solos, shomanic, look-at-me-vocals and faultline-punishing ur-bas – Van Halen could not fail. Julian Cope, Copendium, Faber and Faber, 2012 Human Eddie Van Halen is gone, he left us. Commemorating him is a must. Regret it’s superfluous….
Frammenti musicali: Taku Sugimoto e Fabio Selvafiorita su #neuguitars #blog
L’enciclopedia Treccanti definisce così il frammento: “Parte di un’opera letteraria pervenutaci mutila. In seguito alle perdite di codici antichi, di molte opere dell’antichità greca e romana non restano che frammenti. Molti sono stati riuniti in raccolte, tra cui: Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker di H. Diels (1903); Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker di F. Jacoby (1925);…
Musical fragments: Taku Sugimoto and Fabio Selvafiorita on #neuguitars #blog
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. Many have been brought together in collections, including: Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker by H. Diels (1903); Die Fragmente der griechischen…
Orientalism and Contemporary Music, Bill Aves and John Schneider, Guitars and Gamelan on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.billalves.com/ http://www.billalves.com/GuitarsGamelanCD.html https://microfestrecords.com/ https://microfestrecords.com/guitars-and-gamelan/ https://johnschneider.la/ 1889. Universal Exhibition in Paris. In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, built for the occasion, Ravel, Debussy and other musicians let themselves be captivated by popular European, Asian, African and Oceanic music. A historic event was the performance of the Javanese dancers, who performed on the Trocadéro esplanade and…
Masayuki Takayanagi’s New Direction: Aprile è davvero il mese più crudele? su #neuguitars #blog
Temerario. Potente. Vitale. Anticonformista. Virtuoso. Libero. Masayuki Takayanagi è stato tutto questo e ancora di più, un musicista incredibile, intransigente, il cui stile chitarristico non temeva nessun rivale, neppure tra gli urlatori free. Capace di creare una musica dotata di un forza di attrazione gravitazionale superiore a quella di un buco nero, un buco fatto…
Masayuki Takayanagi’s New Direction: Is April the Cruellest Month? on #neuguitars #blog
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 pull greater than that of a black hole, a hole made of music played at a cosmic level of intensity….
Omaggio ad Alvaro Company, il giusto tributo a un grande musicista su #neuguitars #blog
Omaggio ad Alvaro Company, il giusto tributo a un grande musicista su #neuguitars #blog http://www.emavinci.it/service/archives/220 Alvaro Company è stato, e credo tuttora sia, una figura importante nell’ambito della chitarra classica italiana e nel mondo, più vasto e composito della musica contemporanea. Una breve biografia credo sia senz’altro d’aiuto per inquadrare la sua molteplice figura di…
Tribute to Alvaro Company, the right tribute to a great musician on #neuguitars #blog
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 the wider and more composite world of contemporary music. I think a short biography is certainly helpful to frame his…
Bjørn Fongaard e la chitarra microtonale su #neuguitars #blog
Bjørn Fongaard e la chitarra microtonale su neuguitars.com
Bjørn Fongaard and the microtonal guitar on #neuguitars #blog
Bjørn Fongaard and the microtonal guitar on neuguitars.com
Micro Dave “Fuze” Fiucynski e la RareNoiseRecords, suoni e microsuoni su #neuguitars #blog
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/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/mikrojazz/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/georgian-microjamz/ David Fiucynski è un genio. Punto. Basta. Semplice. Che altro c’è da aggiungere? Basterebbe questo per chiudere questo post, perché a parlare sono semplicemente i fatti. Basterebbe solo dire che il Professor “Fuze” è il leader degli Screaming Headless Torsos, insegna…
Micro Dave “Fuze” Fiucynski and RareNoiseRecords, sounds and micro-sounds on #neuguitars #blog
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/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/mikrojazz/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/georgian-microjamz/ David Fiucynski is a genius. Stop. Enough said. What else could I add to this statement? Facts are simply talking by themselves. It think it would be enough to say that Professor “Fuze” is the leader of the Screaming Headless Torsos, that…
Se amate la chitarra elettrica…la musica di Wiek Hijmans su #neuguitars #blog
http://www.wiekhijmans.nl/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~xorluc http://www.attaccaproductions.com/ Un fantasma si aggira, indisturbato, nel mondo della musica contemporanea accademica, è la chitarra elettrica. La chitarra elettrica è un corpo estraneo, un virus, un rivoluzione tecnologica che spiazza i compositori. Strumento principe della popular music, ha attraversato il novecento collegando la sua innovazione tecnologica sia con la musica popular, sia con…
If you love electric guitar … the music of Wiek Hijmans music on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.wiekhijmans.nl/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~xorluc http://www.attaccaproductions.com/ A ghost wanders, undisturbed, in the world of contemporary academic music, it’s the electric guitar. The electric guitar is a foreign body, a virus, a technological revolution that displaces composers. Principal instrument of popular music, it crossed the twentieth century connecting its technological innovation both with popular music, and with the social…
I sogni elettrici e la lucida realtà di Eivind Aarset su #neuguitars #blog
I sogni elettrici e la lucida realtà di Eivind Aarset https://eivindaarset.com/ https://eivindaarset.bandcamp.com/ https://eivindaarsetjanbang.bandcamp.com/ “…space, abstraction and very little regulated rhythm…”1 Siamo nel 1997 e qualcosa di muove nel sottobosco del Jazz. Per chi non era ancora riuscito a recuperare lo shock dei dischi di John Zorn e dei Naked City, arriva un nuovo inquietante punto…
The electric dreams and the lucid reality of Eivind Aarset on #neuguitars #blog
The electric dreams and the lucid reality of Eivind Aarset https://eivindaarset.com/ https://eivindaarset.bandcamp.com/ https://eivindaarsetjanbang.bandcamp.com/ “…space, abstraction and very little regulated rhythm…”1 We are in 1997 and something is moving in the Jazz’s underworld. For those who had not yet managed to recover the shock of John Zorn and Naked City’s records, a disturbing new question mark…
Storia, postmodernismo, citazioni: tre Blind per la chitarra, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Joe Death e Blind Sun su #neuguitars #blog
Come definire lo stile di Blind Willie Johnson? Gospel o Blues? Bella domanda, dal punto di vista formale infatti la sua musica e il suo modo di cantare possono esser considerati blues, ma i testi delle sue canzoni derivano direttamente dagli spirituals e dagli inni, sono parabole bibliche, preghiere, invocazioni al Signore. La storia di…
History, postmodernism, quotes: three Blinds for the guitar, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Joe Death and Blind Sun on #neuguitars #blog
How to define Blind Willie Johnson’s style? Gospel or Blues? Good question, from the formal point of view in fact his music and his way of singing can be considered blues, but the lyrics of his songs derive directly from the spirituals and hymns, they are biblical parables, prayers, invocations to the Lord. The story…
When the melody goes beyond sentimentalism and becomes a positive thing: Mart Soo’s Kulg and Kulg II on #neuguitars #blog
https://martsoo.bandcamp.com/releases https://martsookulgejad.bandcamp.com/releases Carl Wilson writes in his book “Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste”: “For a century and more sentimentalism has been the capital sin of aesthetics. To say that a work of art is sentimental necessarily means to condemn it.” True. Needless to deny it. Punk and Darmstadt’s contemporary…
