Mark Wingfield: Tales From The Dreaming City, The Stone House and Lighthouse http://www.markwingfield.com/ http://moonjune.com/catalogue.html https://markwingfield-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-the-dreaming-city-hd https://markwingfield-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/lighthouse-hd https://markwingfield-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/the-stone-house-hd British guitarist Mark Wingfield seems to be a perfect synthesis of what a contemporary rock guitarist can be understood today. His music, his own musical vision are the result of a training course that moves between rock, jazz…
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Mark Wingfield: Tales From The Dreaming City, The Stone House e Lighthouse su #neuguitars #blog
Mark Wingfield: Tales From The Dreaming City, The Stone House e Lighthouse http://www.markwingfield.com/ http://moonjune.com/catalogue.html https://markwingfield-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-the-dreaming-city-hd https://markwingfield-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/lighthouse-hd https://markwingfield-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/the-stone-house-hd Il chitarrista britannico Mark Wingfield sembra essere una perfetta sintesi di ciò che si può intendere per un chitarrista rock contemporaneo. La sua musica, la sua stessa visione musicale sono il frutto di un percorso di formazione che…
Talking about t Lee Ranaldo and From Here To Infinity, SST Records, 1988 on #neuguitars #blog
“Electric currents ripple thru the atmosphere. A chill shimmering, a delicate light passes thru me. I am frail, about to break, ready to suffer the winds of change. I see turrets and spires rising up, protecting the farmlands. Carpets of logic blanket the fields. Twosmall and beautiful blonde children stand at the far end of…
Parliamo di Lee Ranaldo e di Lee Ranaldo From Here To Infinity, SST Records, 1988 su #neuguitars #blog
“Electric currents ripple thru the atmosphere. A chill shimmering, a delicate light passes thru me. I am frail, about to break, ready to suffer the winds of change. I see turrets and spires rising up, protecting the farmlands. Carpets of logic blanket the fields. Twosmall and beautiful blonde children stand at the far end of…
Rafael Toral Wave Field, Moneyland Records (MR$ 0595), Portugal, 1995 on #neuguitars #blog
Rafael Toral Wave Field, Moneyland Records (MR$ 0595), Portugal, 1995 http://rafaeltoral.net/ https://rafaeltoral-r.bandcamp.com/album/wave-field-remastered Wave Field 5 25:22 Wave Field 6 21:35 WF Radio Edit 3:01 “What kind of things do you collect? Teaspoons from airline companies.”1 The Portuguese musician Rafael Toral is well known in the experimental scene for having made excellent works based on drone…
Manuel Göttsching The Kosmic Courier on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.ashra.com/news.php Are two records enough to trace the future? Yes, if your name is Manuel Göttsching and you are a Cosmic Courier. Don’t you belive in me? Well, to understand it we need to start with some history. Born in Berlin in August 1952, Manuel Göttsching founded with bassist Hartmut Enke his first semi-professional group…
Corona Guitar Kvartet’s discography on #neuguitars #blog
Corona Guitar Kvartet’s discography http://coronaguitarkvartet.dk/ The Corona Guitar Kvartet sounds too good to be true. Let’s think about it: four professionals, four guitarists perfectly able to manage an excellent solo career that come together to create a quartet. Dedicated to contemporary music. Again, it’s too good to be true, and that’s right. In many years…
Resophonic Guitar in Contemporary Music: The Wayward Trail by Elliot Simpson, Microfest Records, 2015 #review on #neuguitars #blog
Resophonic Guitar in Contemporary Music: The Wayward Trail by Elliot Simpson, Microfest Records, 2015 http://www.elliotsimpson.net/ http://microfestrecords.com/the-wayward-trail/ Let’s face it, Resophonic guitars have a special charm. For those who don’t know anything about they are a type of guitar invented in the United States of America at the end of the twenties byJohn Dopyera, Slovak emigrant….
La chitarra resofonica nella musica contemporanea: The Wayward Trail di Elliot Simpson, MicroFest Records, 2015 #recensione su #neuguitars #blog
La chitarra resofonica nella musica contemporanea: The Wayward Trail di Elliot Simpson, Microfest Records, 2015 http://www.elliotsimpson.net/ http://microfestrecords.com/the-wayward-trail/ Ammettiamolo, le chitarre resofoniche hanno un fascino particolare. Per chi non le conoscesse sono un tipo di chitarra inventato negli Stati Uniti d’America alla fine degli anni venti, da John Dopyera, emigrante slovacco. Forse sono più conosciute con…
Leo Brouwer: his records, Deutsche Grammophon, the ’70s on #neuguitars #blog
Leo Brouwer: his records, Deutsche Grammophon, the ’70s Considered as the most important living composer for guitar music, the Afro-Cuban composer, classical guitarist and conductor Leo Brouwer was named Juan Leovigildo Brouwer when he came into the world in Havana, Cuba on March 1, 1939. His enormous influence on guitar music in particular and classical…
Leo Brouwer, i suoi dischi, la Deutsche Grammophon, gli anni ’70 su #neuguitars #blog
Leo Brouwer, i suoi dischi, la Deutsche Grammophon, gli anni ’70 Considerato il più importante compositore vivente per la chitarra contemporanea, il compositore afro-cubano, chitarrista e direttore d’orchestra Leo Brouwer, vero nome Juan Leovigildo Brouwer, venne al mondo a L’Avana, Cuba, il 1° marzo 1939. La sua enorme influenza sulla musica per chitarra in particolare,…
The Pat Metheny you don’t expect: free-jazz on #neuguitars #blog
The Pat Metheny you don’t expect: free-jazz “Melody still has a place here, which suggests that Metheny’s interest in the Original Coleman legacy may be carrying forward in his own work more intently than it is in the composer’s. Either way, on many of the more raving episodes here, both men sound exulatant with the…
Il Pat Metheny che non ti aspetti: il free-jazz su #neuguitars #blog
Il Pat Metheny che non ti aspetti: il free-jazz “Melody still has a place here, which suggests that Metheny’s interest in the Original Coleman legacy may be carrying forward in his own work more intently than it is in the composer’s. Either way, on many of the more raving episodes here, both men sound exulatant…
Ornette Coleman’s Body Meta, forty years later on #neuguitars #blog
Ornette Coleman’s Body Meta, forty years later “Body Meta is the first Prime Time band recording. The Dancing In Your Head release came from these sessions. The name Prime Time was given because every rehearsal was done in such a will it be or not be manner (because of the difficulty of schéduling everybody for…
Talking about Pierre Bensusan on #neuguitars #blog
Talking about Pierre Bensusan http://www.pierrebensusan.com/ I met Pierre Bensusan in a really random way, buying and reading a copy of the italian magazine “Chitarre” in 1987, No. 11 February 1987. I bought it for the cover and for the interview dedicated to Eric Clapton, I admit, but inside I found too an interesting interview to…
Ornette Coleman’s Body Meta, quarant’anni dopo su #neuguitars #blog
Ornette Coleman’s Body Meta, quarant’anni dopo “Body Meta is the first Prime Time band recording. The Dancing In Your Head release came from these sessions. The name Prime Time was given because every rehearsal was done in such a will it be or not be manner (because of the difficulty of schéduling everybody for rehearsals)….
Parlando di Pierre Bensusan su #neuguitars #blog
Parlando di Pierre Bensusan http://www.pierrebensusan.com/ Ho conosciuto Pierre Bensusan in modo davvero casuale, comprando e leggendo nel 1987 una copia della rivista italiana Chitarre, N. 11 Febbraio 1987. L’avevo comprata per la copertina e per l’intervista dedicata a Eric Clapton, lo ammetto, ma all’interno trovai anche l’intervista a questo chitarrista acustico francese, all’epoca trentenne che…
A Tribute to Leif Christensen, thirty years after on #neuguitars #blog
A Tribute to Leif Christensen, thirty years after. Who was Leif Christensen? Leif Christensen (1950-1988) born in Arhus, Denmark, studied the theory and history of music at Arhus University (1972), followed by guitar studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Arhus. After graduating in 1977, he completed his studies with Konrad Ragossnig at the…
Steve Reich’s contemporary guitar music on #neuguitar #blog
Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich’s style of composition influenced many composers and groups. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It’s…
The Pat Metheny you don’t expect: minimalism, noise and…John Zorn
What can we say about Pat Metheny that has not already been written, considered and… listen to? Pat Metheny has been able to build over the years an excellent career and also one of the most recognizable guitar sounds, even for non-connoisseurs. The less knowledgeables should remember him especially for the records made with the…
