Review of Quit your Unnatural Ways, Weird Forest, 2012 “My name is AVA MENDOZA. I play guitars and stompboxes and write music. Currently I’m based out of Brooklyn, NY. I have played guitar for most […]

Review of Quit your Unnatural Ways, Weird Forest, 2012 “My name is AVA MENDOZA. I play guitars and stompboxes and write music. Currently I’m based out of Brooklyn, NY. I have played guitar for most […]
Review of Giacomo Susani plays Petrassi Bach Tansman Weiss, Stradivarius, 2015 What can I say? Surprising. Giacomo Susani immediately convince in his debut album devoted to music by Petrassi, Bach, Tansman and Weiss with a […]
Review of J.S. Bach The Four Suites for Lute by Giacomo Copiello, Victor Valisena, Michele Tedesco and Giacomo Susani, Stradivarius, 2016 I have to confess that I have the fear that I have written a […]
Review of Basket Full of Dragons a tribute to Robbie Basho Vol II, Obsolete Recordings, 2016 Robbie Basho was and still is something much more than a guitar player, or musician. Even something more, I […]
Review of Refugio by Laboule, Long Song records, 2013 And so it seems that .. here we comes Folks! The long shadow of weird folk has also reached the Italic suburbs. In 2011 Gino Dal […]
Tangier Session is the last SOLO record realized by Sir Richard Bishop, American guitarist, improviser, composer, founding member of the band Sun City Girls. Listening to his latest, excellent, recording effort produced by the indie label Drag City, […]
Review of Staubzucker by Marios Joannou Elia, Aesthis Records, 2015 http://www.mjelia.com/ Staubzucker or powdered sugar. Marios Joannou Elia (born 1978), is a Cypriot composer and artistic director. He was the youngest director in the history […]
I quote from Paolo Sorge’s website: http://www.paolosorge.com/ “The title of my new project relates primarily to the principle that it is the primary inspiration: the exploration phase composition, performative and improvisatory of various shapes of “cyclical” music.I […]
Review of Triplain by Paolo Sorge, Improvvisatore Involontario, 2016 “Triplain? Triple Plain or Triple Playing, or Trip Lane or Triplane or whatever your imagination could suggest, just close your eyes and listen for the next […]
Review of Flawless Dust of Garrison Fewell and Gianni Mimmo, Long Song Records, 2016 Musicians are a diverse, changing and unstable community. Take for example this record that sees the duo composed by late lamented […]
Review of La Mascarade by Rolf Lislevand, ECM, 2016 Maestro Rolf Lislevand has a great, unique, terrible flaw: he makes us wait too long. His last Diminuito work for ECM is dated 2009, seven years […]
Review of Diminuito by Rolf Lislevand, ECM, 2009 “Diminuito” sounds like a curious title for this cd. In the booklet that accompanies the CD Maestro Rolf Lislevand gives us an explanation about this name: “Diminutions, […]
Review of Musiche Nuove by Rolf Lislevand, ECM 2006 Among the thoughts and ideas that emerge from the reading of Luciano Berio’s books there is also a special attention about the musician and the contemporary […]
Review of the OTHER VOICES 20th Century Music for Flute and Guitar by Donato D’Antonio and Vanni Montanari, RMN Music Ltd., 2016 Donato D’Antonio and Vanni Montanari are back with a new album almost ten […]
This CD is a tribute to sculptor ceramist Carlo Zauli to coincide with the Japanese celebrations held by the museum in Faenza to him dedicated. The musicians involved, Donato D’Antonio on guitar and Vanni […]
Review of J.S.Bach Sonatas Sébastien Singer and Andre Fischer, Stradivarius, 2016 Bach. Namely the complexity when it’s not perceived as such, because it’s the bearer of a message of high beauty that our ears and […]
Review of Franz Schubert Winterreise, Raphael Favre and André Fischer, Stradivarius 2013 Talking about the good old and familiar question about poverty and narrowness of the classical guitar’s repertoire .. how can we say about […]
Review of Toru Takemitsu Toshio Hosokawa Works for solo guitar by Marco Del Greco, Neos, 2014 “In Performance” wrote Takemitsu “sound trascends the realm of the personal.” Marco Del Greco, Italian guitarist with a brilliant […]
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573457 Review of Japanese Guitar Music Vol. 2 by Shin-ichi Fukuda, Naxos Records, 2016 Maestro Shin-ichi Fukuda is back with this second volume of Japanese Guitar Music, abck after the previous cd entirely dedicated to […]
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573153 Review of Japanese Guitar Music 1, Toru Takemitsu Complete Original Solo Guitar Works di Shin-ichi Fukuda, Naxos, 2014 “The classical guitar was in many ways an ideal medium for Takemitsu, combining intense subtleties of […]