Review of Friends & Heroes: Guitar Duets by Henry Kaiser, Fractal Music, 2017 “One of my most favorite recording and performing formats is the guitar duet. I have been fortunate to record with many heroes […]
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#Review of Talea by Paolo Angeli, AnMa ReR, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Talea by Paolo Angeli, AnMa ReR, 2017 The release of this new (double) cd played by the Italian guitarist Paolo Angeli is a wonderful opportunity to talk about his music but also to […]
#Review of Viriditas by Charlie Rauh, Destiny Records, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Viriditas by Charlie Rauh, Destiny Records, 2017 https://www.charlierauh.com/ This is the first time that I had crossed my path as a passionate blogger for contemporary guitar music with Charlie Rauh’s guitar, but […]
#Review of Roundabout by Harvey Valdes, selfmade cd, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
“Paul Bley loves standards. They are of great compositions, and since I love them too, we ended up playing standards. “ Lee Konitz, “Conversazioni sull’arte dell’improvvisatore” Andy Hamilton, p. 227 I believe that in each […]
#Review of Ice by Dai Fujikura, Kairos, 2013 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Ice by Dai Fujikura, Kairos, 2013 “For many composers who are not guitarists, writing for the instrument can be a nightmare — it teases with its broad expressive possibilities but can also be […]
#Review of Tilt by The Great Harry Hillman, Cuneiform Records, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Tilt by The Great Harry Hillman, Cuneiform Records, 2017 Is it time for post-jazz, after post-rock? This record of the Swiss quartet The Great Harry Hillman makes me think about this. Their music […]
#Review of Edit Peptide by Bubblemath, Cuneiform Records, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Edit Peptide by Bubblemath, Cuneiform Records, 2017 What are the problems that you might encounter by listening to music that is easily identified in popular music genres? I think is the fact that […]
#Review of The Music of Carla Bley by Andrea Massaria and Bruce Ditmas, Nusica.org, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of The Music of Carla Bley by Andrea Massaria and Bruce Ditmas, Nusica.org, 2016 I have to confess that I feel myself a little bit excited writing these notes about the cd produced […]
#Review of Imaginary Guitars by Tim Brady (1992, Justin Time Records JTR 8440-2) on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Imaginary Guitars by Tim Brady (1992, Justin Time Records JTR 8440-2) “For me, Strange Attractors or Imaginary Guitars are just as much contemporary music CDs as the recent works. All this music has […]
#Review of Strange Attractors by Tim Brady (1997, Justin Time Records JTR 8464-2) on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Strange Attractors by Tim Brady (1997, Justin Time Records JTR 8464-2) In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of numerical values toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of […]
#Review of Playing Guitar: Symphony #1 by Tim Brady (2004, Ambiances Magnétiques AM 125 CD) on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Playing Guitar: Symphony #1 by Tim Brady (2004, Ambiances Magnétiques AM 125 CD) Timothy Wesley John Brady (born July 11, 1956 in Montréal) is a Canadian composer and guitarist, mainly working in contemporary […]
#Review of Maledetti by Enrico Merlin Valerio Scrignoli electric guitar duo, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Maledetti by Enrico Merlin Valerio Scrignoli electric guitar duo, 2017 This is such a problem. I’m listening to this work recorded by the “dynamic duo” Enrico Merlin and Valerio Scrignoli devoted to one […]
#Review of Etymo by Luca Francesconi (2008, KAIROS Production 0012712KAI) on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Etymo by Luca Francesconi (2008, KAIROS Production 0012712KAI) The Italian composer Luca Francesconi has a respectable curriculum since studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio, who also served as assistant between 1981 and […]
#Review of Aufs Paradies by Agustin Castilla-Avila, 2014 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Aufs Paradies by Agustin Castilla-Avila, 2014 It’s a quiet and relaxing italian spring evening and I’m sitting on the couch in my studio, listening to this record and thinking about the “rentless pursuit […]
#Review of Nostalgia by Agustín Castilla-Ávila, Zay Records, 2013 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Nostalgia by Agustín Castilla-Ávila, Zay Records, 2013 Agustín Castilla-Ávila is a Spanish composer, born in Jerez de la Frontera, where he began his musical studies at its conservatoire. Later he entered Conservatorio Superior […]
#Review of Agustin Barrios Medallon Antiguo by Enea Leone, Stradivarius 2013 on #neuguitars #blog
Enea Leone is back with a new record devoted to classic guitar’s music, produced by the italian indipentent label Stradivarius. After the beautiful cd Souvenir dedicated to the romantic music by Coste and Regondi, released […]
#Review of Souvenir by Enea Leone, Stradivarius 2011 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Souvenir by Enea Leone, Stradivarius 2011 Very well. Lately the italian label Stradivarius had recorded several different executions for guitar, especially about contemporary music but it was some times (in 2011) that […]
#Review of Dither plays Zorn, John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 1, Tzadik, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Dither plays Zorn, John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 1, Tzadik, 2015 “I never told anyone anything. I set up rules where they could tell each other when to play. It’s a pretty democratic process. […]
#Review of Dither by Dither, HenceForth records, 2010
Review of Dither by Dither, HenceForth records, 2010 This cd begins in almost innocent way, several seconds of soft and impalpable, almost glitch sounds lost in a distance, force to raise the threshold of the […]
#Review of Der Wanderer by Wanderer Guitar Duo (Giacomo Copiello and Michele Tedesco), Stradivarius, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Der Wanderer by Wanderer Guitar Duo (Giacomo Copiello and Michele Tedesco), Stradivarius, 2016 Der Wanderer, the Traveler. It looks like the perfect title for a classical guitar record, especially for one like me […]
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