“Today, however, the new shining star of the guitar is the audacious and fearless Stian Westerhus (born in 1979), winner with the Puma trio of JazzIntro in 2006. In the short span of a few […]
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Jim McAuley’s world seen through Long Song Records on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.longsongrecords.com/artists/jim-mcauley/ I approached the music of Jim McAuley indirectly. It all started with the purchase of “Vignes”made by Acoustic Guitar Trio, released by the Italian indipendent label Long Song Records way back in 2009. I […]
The cassettes’ return: Shimmering Behavior of IN/ELEKTRA, Industrial Coast, 2019 on #neuguitars #blog #girlspower
https://www.inelektramusic.com https://industrialcoast.bigcartel.com/product/in-elektra-shimmering-behaviour https://inelektra.bandcamp.com/releases Play.Stop. Fast-forward. Pause. Rewind. Forgotten gestures. I haven’t bought a cassete in over thirty years. And to listen to it I had to resurrect my dear old vintage Sony Walkman, yes, the […]
“No Home Record”, Kim Gordon’s homeless record on #neuguitars #blog #girlspower
https://kimaltheagordon.com/ I’ll try to be diplomatic. There is more talent in one of the wrinkles that furrow the mature face of Kim Gordon, than in the erased grooves of all so-called current talents launched on […]
Thurston Moore and “Spirit Counsel”‘s late style on #neuguitars #blog #ThurstonMoore
https://www.thurstonmoore.com/ https://thurston-moore.lnk.to/SpiritCounselWE Thurston Moore. Thinking of ignoring Thurston Moore is the stupidest thing that a fan of guitars and experimental music can think about. An act of free ignorance. An act of free arrogance. The […]
Diego Castro Magas’s discography on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.diegocastromagas.com/ Impressive. If you have never listened to Diego Castro Magas, get ready. He’s really awesome. I had noticed his talent a decade ago, for one of those fortuitous events that are the periodic demonstration […]
Three Free Radicals: avangarde ambient music, Scott L. Miller & Mart Soo on #neuguitars #blog
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1zuab9OQ7LvbCmsUPtE97T http://www.scottlmiller.net/index.php/bio/ https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart_Soo Apparently free radicals are not quiet entities. In chemistry, a free radical is defined as a very reactive molecular entity with a very short average life, consisting of an atom or a […]
Andy Aledort and Bobby Lee Rodgers’ rock, thanks to Long Song Records,on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.longsongrecords.com/ Let’s talk about blues rock and we let’s do it by putting together two great records side by side, two records smilar for ideas, conception and spirit, and different for the approach on the […]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor on #neuguitars #blog
http://cstrecords.com/artist/godspeed-you-black-emperor/ https://godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/ I don’t want to use terms like “band” or “ensemble” to find a definition for Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I’m not even looking for a convenient definition. Their predisposition to go against all […]
Sunn O))), a walk between Black Sun, Monoliths & Dimension and the last Life Metal on #neuguitars #blog
Listening to the recent “Life Metal”, idolized and recommended by music critics, proved to be a valid opportunity to take a closer look at the metal world created by Sunn O))). “Life Metal” is the […]
Andy Summers and Robert Fripp. “I Advance Masked” (1982) and “Bewitched” (1984), the dynamic duo on #neuguitars #blog
We are in 1982. The success and the carrer of the Police have by now been stabilized after four great records, a more beautiful than the follower, one more important than the other. The last […]
The unconscious machine and Wendy Eisenberg’s semiotic guitar on #neuguitars #blog #girlspower
https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/ http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=4027http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=4027 I met Wendy Eisenberg through one of the causally fortuitous combinations that take place on internet: a video of the youtuber Don Mount, a passionate who with almost fetishist patience built an impressive […]
Captive, The Edge’s experimental side on #neuguitars #blog
David Howell Evans. In art, and for everyone, simply The Edge. No, we’re not talking about U2. It wouldn’t be worth it. They have had their day and rightly so, they continue to give us […]
Why is “Tor & Vale” by Mark Wingfield and Gary Husband (MoonJune Records 2019) labeled as “progressive” music? #neuguitars #blog
https://markwingfield-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/tor-vale-hd I admit I’m not a lover of musical generalizations, genres and easy labels. I also admit that I don’t like Genesis and instead I declare myself a Crimson King’s fan. What I don’t admit […]
Zero23 and Ranter’s Groove, or the politics of absence, the guitar in the absence, on Kaczynski Editions on #neuguitars #blog
Zero23 and Ranter’s Groove, or the politics of absence, the guitar in the absence, on Kaczynski Editions https://kaczynskieditions.weebly.com/ https://kaczynskieditions.bandcamp.com/ Kaczynski Editions is an independent Italian record company, located in Tuscan, which started quite recently with […]
Complexity and depth in Joe Morris’s music, Macrocom and Ultra on #neuguitars #blog
Joe Morris’s photo @ Scott Friedlander https://joemorrisritiglacialeratic.bandcamp.com/album/macrocosm https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/joe-morris-ultra Susan Sontag represents an almost enigmatic figure for me. Essayist, writer, director, political activist, the Sontag represents an inexhaustible source of contrasting ideas and points of view […]
RMHQ: Headquarters four lonely records by Roy Montgomery, Grapefruit, 2016
https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/r-m-h-q-headquarters Roy Montgomery is a composer, guitarist and lecturer from Christchurch, New Zealand. Montgomery was born in 1959 in London, England and moved with his family to Cologne in Germany where he lived until the […]
Is voice & guitar duo the “new black”? “Between Us All, New American Art Songs For Voice & Guitar” The Bowers Fader Duo, 2019 New Focus Recordings on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/the-bowers-fader-duo-between-us-all/ The new album “Between Us All New American Art Songs For Voice & Guitar” by The Bowers Fader Duo suggests some interesting aesthetic questions. This record, made in 2019 by New Focus Recordings, is […]
The first flight of Oren Fader, First Flight, Oren Fader, cdbaby, 2004 on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.orenfader.com https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/orenfader2 It really seems that no one can get bored in the field of contemporary music for guitar. If in fact some classical players continue today to complain about the limitations of their classical […]
Outsider: A new intelligent and artistical musical journey by Cinzia Milani on #neuguitars #blog
Outsider: A new intelligent and artistical musical journey by Cinzia Milani In 1987 the essayist, musicologist and colonial subject expert Edward W.Said wrote this brilliant essay entitled “Music and feminism” which began in this way: […]
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