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…
Category: Writings
A double CD, two sound spaces that mirror each other. Mirrored Spaces by Daniel Lippel, New Focus Recordings, 2019 on #neuguitars #blog
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/daniel-lippel-mirrored-spaces I thought I was a decent record collector. I thought I have a good discoteque by now, especially as regards contemporary guitar music, but this record made me immediately review my positions. Do you know how many double cds I have of contemporary classical guitar? Nobody. And believe me, I have a lot of…
Viaggi cosmici, venti solari, chitarre trascendenti e ricordi di John Coltrane. Solar Winds, il nuovo disco di Raoul Björkenheim, Long Song Records, 2020 su #neuguitars #blog
https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solar-winds http://raoulbjorkenheim.com/ http://www.longsongrecords.com/ La vita , come la musica, è una cosa curiosa. Fai un incontro, te ne dimentichi. Dopo qualche anno rivedi quella persona e non te ne ricordi. Coincidenze. Casualità. Ma quando i sentieri si incrociano per una terza, quarta, quinta volta….il caso non c’entra, o era premeditato o era destino. Scegliete voi….
Cosmic journeys, solar winds, transcendent guitars and memories of John Coltrane. Solar Winds, Raoul Björkenheim’s new album on Long Song Records, 2020 on #neuguitars #blog
https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solar-winds http://raoulbjorkenheim.com/ http://www.longsongrecords.com/ Life, like music, is a curious thing. Have a meeting, you forget it. After a few years you see that person again and you don’t remember. Coincidences. Randomness. But when the paths cross for a third, fourth, fifth time …. chance has nothing to do with it, either it was premeditated or…
L’innovazione di Erkan Oğur, il maestro della chitarra classica fretless su #neuguitars #blog
Erkan Oğur (nato il 17 aprile 1954) è un musicista turco. Pioniere delle chitarre fretless, inventò la prima chitarra classica senza tasti nel 1976. Come compositore, ha influenzato molti musicisti con le sue opere, in particolare le colonne sonore, combinando i suoni della musica classica con l’antica musica tradizionale e la musica popolare turca. Si…
The innovation of Erkan Oğur, the master of the fretless classical guitar on #neuguitars #blog
Erkan Oğur (born April 17, 1954) is a Turkish musician. Pioneer of fretless guitars, he invented the first fretless classical guitar in 1976. As a composer, he influenced many musicians with his works, especially soundtracks, combining the sounds of classical music with ancient traditional music and Turkish folk music . He has performed all over…
Il Pat Metheny che non ti aspetti: Sherlock Holmes e Derek Bailey su #neuguitars #blog
“Derek is a musician I have admired from a distance for a long time. he is one of the few guitar players in modern times who has not only forged an unmistakable voice on the instrument, but significantly altered the potential of what the instrument could become in an improvisational setting.”* Non preoccupatevi. Nel 1997…
The Pat Metheny you don’t expect: Sherlock Holmes and Derek Bailey on #neuguitars #blog
“Derek is a musician I have admired from a distance for a long time. he is one of the few guitar players in modern times who has not only forged an unmistakable voice on the instrument, but significantly altered the potential of what the instrument could become in an improvisational setting.”* Don’t worry. In 1997…
Ambient 4: Isolationism. Oscure chitarre, angoscia e gelo in una musica ancora attuale su #neuguitars #blog
Nel gennaio del 1995 il critico musicale inglese Simon Reynolds pubblicò su ArtForum un articolo intitolato “ISOLATIONISM, genre survey/thinkpiece”. http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2007/11/isolationism-genre-surveythinkpiece.html In questo articolo Reynolds indagava all’interno di un nuovo sotto genere musicale coniato dal critico Kevin Martin, definito come Isolazionismo. Con questo termine si cercava di dare una connotazione a una vasta rete di rifugiati…
Ambient 4: Isolationism. Dark guitars, anguish and frost in a still alive music genre on #neuguitars #blog
In January 1995 the English music critic Simon Reynolds published on ArtForum an article entitled “ISOLATIONISM, genre survey/thinkpiece”. http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2007/11/isolationism-genre-surveythinkpiece.html In this article Reynolds investigated a new musical sub-genre coined by the critic Kevin Martin, defined as Isolationism. With this term they tried to give a connotation to a vast network of refugees, disenchanted by rock…
Perturbazione, citazione e sospensione in Tajs! di Officina F.lli Seravalle su #neuguitars #blog
OFFICINA F.LLI SERAVALLE “Tajs!” L’Officina dei Fratelli Seravalle è un luogo curioso. Fondamentalmente è uno di quei luoghi dove le memorie si accumulano in pile ordinate lungo le pareti, vicino agli attrezzi di lavoro, e dove vengono ritrovate, rilette, interrogate e riproposte in modi nuovi e curiosi. Facendo questo L’Officina assolve anche a un altro…
Disturbance, quotes and suspension in Tajs! by Officina F.lli Seravalle on #neuguitars #blog
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…
Sonic Madonna o CICCONE YOUTH? «The Whitey Album» Blast First, ed/lp, 1988 su #neuguitars #blog
Ciccone Youth. Sonic Youth. Sonic Ciccone. Com’è ascoltare il Whitey Album dopo più di trent’anni dalla sua uscita? All’epoca fece scalpore. Ma come? I Sonic Youth! Gli alfieri sonici della scena più avangarde rock newyorkese che omaggiano Madonna, la signora del pop per eccellenza? Della serie che ci rimani male. Specialmente se nel 1988 procurarsi…
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…
Voce e chitarre, due esempi di possibile contemporaneità: Beek! di Jakapi-Praestholm-Soo e Sul Filo di Iva Bittova e Paolo Angeli su #neuguitars #blog
https://jakapi-praestholm-soo.bandcamp.com/releases https://angelimanucheproductions.bandcamp.com/album/sul-filo Cosa succede quando la voce non viene usata come una voce e la chitarra non viene usata come una chitarra? In poche parole cosa succede quando voce e chitarra non vengono utilizzate in modo idiomatico? Succede che ci si inoltra in territori sconosciuti ed eccitanti dove le combinazioni e le possibilità possono essere…
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…
La complessità concettuale di Brian Ferneyhough. Uno specchio dei nostri tempi su #neuguitars #blog
https://www.kairos-music.com/cds/0013072kai Negli ultimi due o tre decenni, la musica di Brian Ferneyhough (1943) ha assunto una qualità quasi feticistica. Pur non essendo uno dei compositori viventi più rappresentati al mondo, è comunque uno dei punti di riferimento più frequentemente citati tra i compositori contemporanei, sia per essere stato il creatore di uno stile e di…
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…
La chitarra elettrica di Simona Armenise su #neuguitars #blog
http://newmodellabel.com/simona-armenise-feat-ares-tavolazzi-lotus-sedimentations/ https://simonaarmenise.bandcamp.com/releases Devo fare ammenda. Ricevo molti messaggi e email da chitarristi e label discografiche che mi propongono la loro musica, spesso e volentieri con un link su Spotify (che non utilizzo) o su Bandcamp o su Soundcloud. Spesso e volentieri si tratta di progetti interessanti ma mi è quasi impossibile seguirli tutti anche perché…
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…
