Very Much Alive by Paolo Vinaccia: Terje Rypdal’s rock side on #neuguitars #blog https://jazzlandrec.com/very-much-alive-paolo-vinaccia What do you expect when you buy a record by a guitarist, a musician you know well? I guess you are expecting something that maybe you could give a name to, or maybe it will be difficult or impossible to express…
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Conceptual guitar, il virtuosismo elettrico di Sergio Sorrentino su #neuguitars #blog
http://www.sergiosorrentinoguitarist.com/ https://sergiosorrentino.bandcamp.com/ La chitarra elettrica, strumento popular per eccellenza, sinonimo di ribellione e energia rock giovanile, ha da tempo iniziato un nuovo percorso evolutivo all’interno della musica contemporanea. Nulla di male, anzi, ben vengano lo sviluppo di nuove possibilità e di nuovi percorsi.Quello che però mi domando , e che mi lascia a volte perplesso,…
Conceptual guitar, Sergio Sorrentino’s electric virtuosity on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.sergiosorrentinoguitarist.com/ https://sergiosorrentino.bandcamp.com/ The electric guitar, a popular instrument par excellence, synonymous with rebellion and youth rock energy, has long since begun a new evolutionary path within contemporary music. Nothing wrong with that, indeed, the development of new possibilities and new paths are welcome. What I ask myself, however, and which at times perplexes me, is…
Quando “less” vuol dire davvero “more”: la chitarra di Bernard Sumner nei Joy Division su #neuguitars #blog
Cari amanti e feticisti della chitarra, penso non vi sia sfuggita la recente notizia (28 settembre 2020) di come la chitarra utilizzata da Ian Curtis, il compianto leader dei Joy Division morto suicida il 18 maggio 1980, nel video di “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, sia stata messa all’asta. La notizia è stata riportata dal…
When “less” really means “more”: Bernard Sumner’s guitar in Joy Division on #neuguitars #blog
Dear guitar lovers and fetishists, I think you have not missed the recent news (September 28, 2020) of how the guitar used by Ian Curtis, the late Joy Division leader who committed suicide on May 18, 1980, in the video of “Love Will Tear Us Apart ”, was put up for auction. The news was…
.O.Rang. Il culto post isolazionista di Lee Harris e Paul Webb su #neuguitars #blog
E’ notte mentre vi scrivo. Ho sul piatto del mio lettore cd l’ultimo tassello di un micro culto personale che mi sta accompagnando dal 1994 e che oggi vede, finalmente, completato il suo ciclo temporale e creativo. Oggi vi voglio finalmente parlare degli .O.Rang, duo anticipatore del post rock, figlio di una delle band pop…
.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 and creative cycle completed. Today I finally want to talk to you about .O.Rang, a pioneering post rock duo, son…
Tributo a Eddie Van Halen: guitar hero e superuomo di massa su #neuguitars #blog
Eddie Van Halen: guitar hero e superuomo di massa su #neuguitars #blog ..pre-determined codes – off-kilter riffs, amelodic, chromatic strato-guitar solos, shomanic, look-at-me-vocals and faultline-punishing ur-bas – Van Halen could not fail. Julian Cope, Copendium, Faber and Faber, 2012 L’umano Eddie Van Halen se ne andato, ci ha lasciati. Commemorarlo è doveroso. Rimpiangerlo è superfluo….
A Tribute to Eddie Van Halen: guitar hero and mass superman on #neuguitars #blog
Eddie Van Halen: guitar hero and mass superman on #neuguitars #blog ..pre-determined codes – off-kilter riffs, amelodic, chromatic strato-guitar solos, shomanic, look-at-me-vocals and faultline-punishing ur-bas – Van Halen could not fail. Julian Cope, Copendium, Faber and Faber, 2012 Human Eddie Van Halen is gone, he left us. Commemorating him is a must. Regret it’s superfluous….
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 pull greater than that of a black hole, a hole made of music played at a cosmic level of intensity….
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 the wider and more composite world of contemporary music. I think a short biography is certainly helpful to frame his…
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/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/mikrojazz/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/georgian-microjamz/ David Fiucynski è un genio. Punto. Basta. Semplice. Che altro c’è da aggiungere? Basterebbe questo per chiudere questo post, perché a parlare sono semplicemente i fatti. Basterebbe solo dire che il Professor “Fuze” è il leader degli Screaming Headless Torsos, insegna…
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/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/mikrojazz/ https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/georgian-microjamz/ David Fiucynski is a genius. Stop. Enough said. What else could I add to this statement? Facts are simply talking by themselves. It think it would be enough to say that Professor “Fuze” is the leader of the Screaming Headless Torsos, that…
Se amate la chitarra elettrica…la musica di Wiek Hijmans su #neuguitars #blog
http://www.wiekhijmans.nl/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~xorluc http://www.attaccaproductions.com/ Un fantasma si aggira, indisturbato, nel mondo della musica contemporanea accademica, è la chitarra elettrica. La chitarra elettrica è un corpo estraneo, un virus, un rivoluzione tecnologica che spiazza i compositori. Strumento principe della popular music, ha attraversato il novecento collegando la sua innovazione tecnologica sia con la musica popular, sia con…
If you love electric guitar … the music of Wiek Hijmans music on #neuguitars #blog
http://www.wiekhijmans.nl/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~xorluc http://www.attaccaproductions.com/ A ghost wanders, undisturbed, in the world of contemporary academic music, it’s the electric guitar. The electric guitar is a foreign body, a virus, a technological revolution that displaces composers. Principal instrument of popular music, it crossed the twentieth century connecting its technological innovation both with popular music, and with the social…
I sogni elettrici e la lucida realtà di Eivind Aarset su #neuguitars #blog
I sogni elettrici e la lucida realtà di Eivind Aarset https://eivindaarset.com/ https://eivindaarset.bandcamp.com/ https://eivindaarsetjanbang.bandcamp.com/ “…space, abstraction and very little regulated rhythm…”1 Siamo nel 1997 e qualcosa di muove nel sottobosco del Jazz. Per chi non era ancora riuscito a recuperare lo shock dei dischi di John Zorn e dei Naked City, arriva un nuovo inquietante punto…
The electric dreams and the lucid reality of Eivind Aarset on #neuguitars #blog
The electric dreams and the lucid reality of Eivind Aarset https://eivindaarset.com/ https://eivindaarset.bandcamp.com/ https://eivindaarsetjanbang.bandcamp.com/ “…space, abstraction and very little regulated rhythm…”1 We are in 1997 and something is moving in the Jazz’s underworld. For those who had not yet managed to recover the shock of John Zorn and Naked City’s records, a disturbing new question mark…
L’innovazione di Erkan Oğur, il maestro della chitarra classica fretless su #neuguitars #blog
Erkan Oğur (nato il 17 aprile 1954) è un musicista turco. Pioniere delle chitarre fretless, inventò la prima chitarra classica senza tasti nel 1976. Come compositore, ha influenzato molti musicisti con le sue opere, in particolare le colonne sonore, combinando i suoni della musica classica con l’antica musica tradizionale e la musica popolare turca. Si…
The innovation of Erkan Oğur, the master of the fretless classical guitar on #neuguitars #blog
Erkan Oğur (born April 17, 1954) is a Turkish musician. Pioneer of fretless guitars, he invented the first fretless classical guitar in 1976. As a composer, he influenced many musicians with his works, especially soundtracks, combining the sounds of classical music with ancient traditional music and Turkish folk music . He has performed all over…
Sonic Madonna or CICCONE YOUTH? «The Whitey Album» Blast First, ed/lp, 1988 on #neuguitars #blog
Ciccone Youth. Sonic Youth. Sonic Ciccone. What is it like to listen to the Whitey Album more than thirty years after its release? At the time it was a blast! How? Sonic Youth!? The sonic ensigns, bearers of the avant-garde New York rock scene payed homage to Madonna, the lady of pop par excellence?! You…
