“It was guitarists in particular, including the leading soloists of the San Francisco music scene, who were drawn to Coltrane’s album and long improvisations.” Ashley Kahn, A Love Supreme Jorge Luis Borges teaches us that […]
Tag: Review
.O.Rang. Lee Harris and Paul Webb’s post-isolationism cult on #neuguitars #blog
It’s night as I write to you. I have on my cd player the last piece of a personal micro cult that has been accompanying me since 1994 and that today finally sees its temporal […]
Volume versus Masses, Masayuki Takayanagi plays “Axis/Another Revolvable Thing” (2LP Bundle/ 2CD), Blank Forms, 2020 on #neuguitars #blog
https://blankforms.org/ https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/ Finally! Finally another piece of the mosaic, another piece of history that finds its place. Between his emergence on the scene during the early 1950s, until his passing in 1991, Masayuki Takayanagi remained […]
Namatoulee. How to invent a world. Francesca Naibo’s debut on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.francescanaibo.com/discography/solo/ https://www.autrecords.com/store/francesca-naibo-namatoulee/ https://francescanaibo.bandcamp.com/ Before considering and analyzing this record, the debut work of Francesca Naibo, now a Lombard-Venetian guitarist, I think it could be interesting to repeat that every musician, perhaps every artist, starts from […]
Musical fragments: Taku Sugimoto and Fabio Selvafiorita on #neuguitars #blog
The Treccani encyclopedia defines the fragment as follows: “Mutilated part of a literary work that has reached us. Following the loss of ancient codices, only fragments remain of many works of Greek and Roman antiquity. […]
Masayuki Takayanagi’s New Direction: Is April the Cruellest Month? on #neuguitars #blog
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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/%5B…%5D
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/%5B…%5D
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The first collection of 4’33 ”, the first collection of the versions of silence. 45’18” on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.discogs.com/it/Various-4518/release/633979 http://www.kormplastics.nl/ This record belongs to the category of musical objects that delight collectors and researchers. We are in 2002 and the obscure Korm Plastics label in Amsterdam makes this CD entitled 45’18 “which contains […]
History, postmodernism, quotes: three Blinds for the guitar, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Joe Death and Blind Sun on #neuguitars #blog
How to define Blind Willie Johnson’s style? Gospel or Blues? Good question, from the formal point of view in fact his music and his way of singing can be considered blues, but the lyrics of […]
Contemporary chamber music, surfaces and textures, Teho Teardo and Ellipses dans l’harmonie, Spècula, 2020 on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.tehoteardo.com/it/opera/album/ellipses-dans-lharmonie/ I tried to write this post I don’t know how many times now. I think I tried for a couple of years, repeatedly, methodically and every time I scrambled, rewrote, added and removed. Every […]
