Review of Medallon Antiguo Marco Caiazza plays Agustin Barrios, DotGuitar, 2016 What’s the impact on this monograph? Here we have a nice cd, all zipped with great music, with nineteen pieces, a nearly complete collection […]
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#Review of A Guitar Named Carla by Rüdiger Krause, Jazzwerkstatt, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of A Guitar Named Carla by Rüdiger Krause, Jazzwerkstatt, 2015 Can I say it? It was time! It was time that a guitar player took his time (and his troubles) to translate the music of the great […]
Thumbscrew, (Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara), a new idea for a trio in the contemporary jazz’s world: Thumbscrew e Convallaria on #neuguitars #blog
“what is remaining decided to float in air hanging there” Mary Halvorson in John Zorn, “Arcana VI musicians on music”, pag. 107 http://www.thumbscrew.net/ http://www.MichaelFormanek.com http://www.TomasFujiwara.com http://www.MaryHalvorson.com The recent Cuneiform Records’ release for the Thumbscrew trio’s […]
#Review of carpere fide(s) by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete, Odradek Records, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of carpere fide(s) by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete, Odradek Records http://www.odradek-records.com/ https://www.chavarria-aldrete.com/ Odradek Records is an independent American nonprofit record company devoted to the diffusion of contemporary music. In 2016 the label produced this cd, which […]
#Review of bypass 2.1 (sonoritès avec guitare) by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete on #neuguitars #blog
Review of bypass 2.1 (sonoritès avec guitare) by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete https://www.chavarria-aldrete.com/ An impressive, a really impressive record. Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete is a very impressive guitarist with stunning stylistic and technical skills and this work is almost […]
#review of No Time (at all) by Diego Castro Magas, 2009 on #neuguitars #blog
It seems not a day passes that the guitar showes the deep interest that “she” rises to the contemporary composers. Diego Castro Magas ‘s CD also shows this interest across the ocean and more […]
#Review of Fire Wire Steven Joseph, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Fire Wire Steven Joseph, 2015 Dear friends, if you agree we may try to think together what should be the profile of a young contemporary classical guitarist. This thing could not be idle […]
#Review of How to kill complex numbers by Luca Perciballi, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of How to kill complex numbers by Luca Perciballi, 2016 The first time I heard this record I was rocked. But who the hell is this Luca Perciballi? How old is he? If the […]
#Review of “It’s not jazz, it’s worse” by Swedish Mobilia, Auand, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of “It’s not jazz, it’s worse” by Swedish Mobilia, Auand, 2016 Despite its name, Swedish Mobilia is an italian trio that made the last 2016’s release for the italian indipendent label, producing a record […]
#Review of Pictures of Moments by Marco Magnelli Trio, ImprovvisatoreInvolontario, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
The first time I heard this album, I immediately thought: “Fusion”. A term that if it was fashionable in the 80’s along with all its possible variations (smooth jazz, jazz-rock, jazz, electric, etc.) in the […]
#Review of Santiago De Murcia Codex by Ensemble Kapsberger Rolf Lislevand, Auvidis/Naive, 2000 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Santiago De Murcia Codex by Ensemble Kapsberger Rolf Lislevand, Auvidis/Naive, 2000 “Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into […]
#Review of Raffaele Bellafronte, Arakathamala, Stradivarius 2011 on #neuguiytars #blog
Beautiful word “Arakathamala”, I look for it on google and I don’t find anything. Really nothing. It doesn’t exist, there is not, it’s an invention. Something in between among the group Aktualas of the beginnings […]
#Review of Fassbinder Wunderkammer by Alessandra Novaga, Setola di Maiale, 2017 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Fassbinder Wunderkammer by Alessandra Novaga, Setola di Maiale, 2017 I apologize if, as writing these notes, I would make some clarifications. This record “talks” about cinema, no doubt. My problem is that I’m […]
#Review of LA CHAMBRE DES JEUX SONORES by Alessandra Novaga, SETOLA DI MAIALE SM2690, 2014 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of LA CHAMBRE DES JEUX SONORES by Alessandra Novaga, SETOLA DI MAIALE SM2690, 2014 First record for a “new artistic life” by Alessandra Novaga. Why I wrote about a “new life”? Because by some […]
#Review of Metissage by Spring in Duo, Preludio Records, 2013 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Metissage by Spring in Duo, Preludio Records, 2013 This cd, object of this review, could not exist. Otherwise from other musical genres (particularly jazz, swing and kletzmer’s music) both classical and contemporary musics […]
#Review of SEEK by Maurizio Grandinetti, United Phoenix Records, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of SEEK by Maurizio Grandinetti, United Phoenix Records, 2016 http://www.atreeinafieldrecords.com/shop/maurizio-grandinetti-seek/ https://mauriziograndinettiguitar.bandcamp.com/album/seek Maurizio Grandinetti is definitely not one that makes things in a hurry. It took thirteen years, before giving a sequel to his first […]
#Review of Joseph Perez Mirandilla, ZAY Records, 2013 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Joseph Perez Mirandilla, ZAY Records, 2013 http://www.josephperezmirandilla.tk/ “Waves grow, burst and change shape” Yori-aki Matsudaira I met the music and Joseph Perez Mirandilla’s guitar a bit by chance, a bit because, perhaps, it […]
#Review of S’U by Paolo Angeli, AnMa production, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
I hesitated a little before writing this review of the last solo album by Paolo Angeli. I hesitated because I felt the need for a pause for reflection and meditation about his music. In recent […]
#Review of Bach by Emanuele Segre, Limen, 2016 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of Bach by Emanuele Segre, Limen, 2016 “All artists are contemporaries, insofar as they are artists. They are not contemporaries on matters irrelevant to art. “ Arthur C. Danto, After the end of art, […]
#Review of L’oiseau rare by Francisco Luque, Ed. Espacio, 2015 on #neuguitars #blog
Review of L’oiseau rare by Francisco Luque, Ed. Espacio, 2015 http://frluque4.wixsite.com/francisco-luque http://in.ouir.free.fr/delume.htm We find again the Spanish composer Francisco Luque on this record, a monograph of his works for guitar that includes the following compositions: […]
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