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….
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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…
A new musical bestiary, Petri Kumela’s little creatures on #neuguitars #blog
A new musical bestiary, Petri Kumela’s little creatures on #neuguitars #blog
The hopes and joys of a gardener in the music of Alessandra Novaga 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 project, she dedicates herself with rare passion and stubbornness: Alessandra reaches an almost theatrical intensity in reaching and identifying herself…
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…
Dagger Moth plays her silk: Silk around the marrow by Dagger Moth (Sara Ardizzoni) Audioglobe, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
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 don’t listen to mp3 on my smartphone. I want the records, CD or LP, better the CD. And I listen…
The blues and the isolationist gospel played by Stian Westerhus on #neuguitars #blog
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 answer, and the answer is “Redundance”, the catharsis. This record arrived the moment the world closed in Covid-19’s emotional, empathic…
The light and serenity of Ratko Zjaca: The Places You Will Go and Light In The World on #neuguitars #blog
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 arrangement and production work. I wrote: “The Nocturnal Four do a perfect job, smooth and with an almost aerodynamic, pulsating…
Images and surfaces: Le Retour A ‘la Raison by Teho Teardo, Specula, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.tehoteardo.com/it/opera/album/le-retour-la-raison/ “This album is about a unique meeting with Man Ray. Unique because silent films directors are all dead!“ Flashback. We are in 2015. We took a step back and are listening to this CD, Le Retour A ‘la Raison by Teho Teardo. What is kinematic music? David Shea defines it this way in his…
Alberto Mesirca plays Vicente Asencio, Brilliant Classics, 2020 on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/a/asencio-complete-guitar-music/ Vicente Asencio (Valencia 1908 – 1979) “Vicente Asencio is part of the group of Spanish composers who dedicated some compositions to Segovia characterized by a late-Impressionist language, but of popular origin. The Suite Mistica is composed of three pieces inspired by the evangelical tradition and the dedicatee recorded it in 1977. It was the…
Other forms of chamber music for guitar: Lo scuro Informe by PhreeAngles and Scot Ray Quartet on #neuguitars #blog
https://scotray.bandcamp.com/album/scot-ray-quartet https://phreeangles.wixsite.com/phreeangles The guitar never ceases to amaze us, constantly proving to be an instrument capable of always adapting to different and innovative contexts. Maybe I’m wrong. The instrument may have characteristics that make it so flexible and adaptable to the times, society and cultural needs that it expresses, but the difference, innovation, desire is…
