Review of Patrik Kleemola, Through Green Glass, Pilfink records, 2015 An entire CD dedicated to the music for guitar by Finnish composers. This is not something you can get everyday. It ‘s true that we […]

Review of Patrik Kleemola, Through Green Glass, Pilfink records, 2015 An entire CD dedicated to the music for guitar by Finnish composers. This is not something you can get everyday. It ‘s true that we […]
Review of Patrik Kleemola, Perchitarrasola – Finnish and Italian music for guitar, Pilfink records, 2012 Interesting mix this CD played by the talented Patrik Kleemola that combines an ideal musical twinning between Italian and Finnish […]
Elliott Sharp does it seriously when, in the notes on this cd defines this music as ‘purely digital’ which means simply produced by his fingers. Any plectrum, any help from the electronics, just a touch of […]
Here we go with Elliott Sharp, veteran “laurea honoris causa” of the 80’s downtown scene. Sharp has intelligently and creatively distributed his own talent among compositions of contemporary music for strings’ quartets, blues hard-core quintets, electronics, orchestral […]
Sometimes, around a day, we feel the need,( as was singing Franco Battiato some years ago) to try to live our lifes running with a different speed. A less excited rithm, a more relaxed time, […]
Daughter of the god of war and the goddess of love, Harmony has inspired three of the most penetrating fragments of Heraclitus. The third fragment in particular, dear architects and musicians of all time, mentions: […]
“I play an instrument which today is enjoying one of the happiest periods in its long history. Its structure and sound have evolved and kept pace with changes in attitudes to music, culmination in a […]
This record is the first “opera omnia” for electric guitar by the american composer Steve Reich ever made. The author of this stylistic synthesis is the Japanise guitarist Yasushi Takemura, who played three scores: “Music […]
Hans-Jürgen Gerung aus Kranzegg ist einer von zwölf Gitarristen aus Europa und den USA, die in dem Buch „Visionary Guitars“ von Andrea Aguzzi zu Wort kommen. Der Kontakt kam über ein Internetforum zustande, das der […]
The requiem or Requia, according to the liturgical rite of the Catholic Church is a Mass performed and celebrated in memory of the deceased. It can also be used as a funeral service, in particular […]
Review of Radamés Gnattali Complete Music for Solo Guitar, Vitor Gaberlotto, 1999 The more I listen to Sudamerican composers’ music, the more I think that this continent is the perfect place where popular and high […]
Review of Sarau para Radames Vitor Garbelotto, ddm Multimidia, 2015 This is the ideal repertoire for a concert for solo Brasilian guitar. Guitarist Vitor Garbelotto managed to choose 11 songs just perfect for a great […]
Mary Halvorson is an avant-garde guitarist from Boston currently living in Brooklyn. She is a 2002 graduate of Wesleyan University. She has performed with many artists, including Anthony Braxton, Jessica Pavone, Taylor Ho Bynum and […]
The last discographic work for Seth Josel on Mode Records, printed in 2009 is really a curious record from different points of view: first, the truly unusual number of tracks present, ninety-five! Secondly, this is […]
The word aphorism (literally “distinction” or “definition”, from the Greek: φορισμός, aphorismós ap-horizein “from-to bound”) denotes an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and easily memorable form.. Wikipedia Listening to this CD it […]
Electric guitar gets run over by a car on the highway This is a crime against the state This is the meaning of life. To tune this electric guitar I do not know if Seth […]
Mechanical Uprising . Almost a futuristic title for the third soloist cd by Marco Oppedisano on OKSRNA. As for the other two albums we have reviewed on this blog, Marco introduces some compositions that comes […]
Marco Oppedisano (born November 20, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American guitarist and composer whose compositions focus on creative and innovative use of electric guitar,creating a form of electro-acoustic music, based on the […]
Review of Have a Little Faith by Bill Frisell, Nonesuch Records, 1992 Ok, I admit it: I have a boundless admiration for Bill Frisell. I follow his career since the time I listen to the particular sound […]
Review of Gefion by Jakob Bro, ECM, 2015 What a truly remarkable and interesting record this Gefion, first job as leaders by the Danish guitarist Jakob Bro for the ECM label; It comes after an […]