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 […]
Review of Ghost Town by Bill Frisell, Nonesuch Records, 1999 I think there’s something very nice, honest and sincere in the music of Bill Frisell. Something that is inherent in the sound of his guitars. […]
Review of Raffaele Bellafronte Guitars Works by Davide di Ienno, Tactus, 2015 I confess that I like cds with complete guitars works about a specific composers. I like them because they help me a lot […]
Review of The Gnostic Preludes by John Zorn, Tzadik 2012 So .. we are here again in front of another cd by John Zorn. Great news? I don’t know. Zorn has become so quick about […]
Review of Otomo Yoshihide, Guitar Solo 2015 RIGHT, DoubtMusic Records, 2015 With this new cd Guitar Solo 2015 RIGHT, Otomo Yoshihide creates the “right side” of his CD Guitar Solo LEFT 2015: almost the […]
I saw Otomo Yoshihide and his New Jazz Quintet playing on a quiet spring evening in Venice at the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in May 2005. It was a nice evening, very intense, highly charged, […]
Review of James Moore plays The Book of Heads, 2015 Tzadik James Moore is a versatile guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, a founding member of the electric guitar quartet Dither, and performs internationally as a soloist and ensemble […]
Review of “solo bimhuis” by Joe Morris, Relative Pitch Records, 2015 Let’s do some order: – 1995 No Vertigo, Leo Records – 2000 Singularity, AUM Fidelity – 2015 solos bimhuis, Relative Pitch Records LLC These […]
Review of John Zorn The Book of Heads by Christoph Funabashi, 2012 Schraum This CD is the second complete edition of the Book of Heads, a clear example of how, over the years, interest has […]
A work for 100 electric guitars. Not bad, am I right? Try to imagine the sound, beautiful, massive, and at the same time cheerful, playful, immediate. The idea for this music made by Rhys Chatham […]
Pablo Marquez is a classic Argentinean guitarist whose skills and virtuosity were made available to different situations, collaborations and musical backgrounds. He has played with groups such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, as well as with traditional […]
I looked for this record far and wide for more than two years before I could get it requesting it directly to the author. This rarity is a real pity because this recording is a […]
Marc Ribot, John Zorn The Book of Heads, 1995 Tzadik An absolutely paradoxical record, a unique and complex open opera, as is its composer, John Zorn, saxophonist, composer, sound’s investigator, soundtracks’ author for essay films, […]
Review of Turning Towards The Light by Adam Rudolph Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra, Cuneiform Records, 2015 http://www.metarecords.com/adam.html#anchorreviews%5B…%5D
I like the title of this record that plays with the meaning of counterpoint, a cd made by the trio Harvey Valdes (Guitar / Compositions), Sana Nagano (Violin) and Joe Hertenstein (Drums) that seems to […]
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