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…
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Simona Armenise’s electric guitar on #neuguitars #blog
http://newmodellabel.com/simona-armenise-feat-ares-tavolazzi-lotus-sedimentations/ https://simonaarmenise.bandcamp.com/releases I have to make amends. I receive many messages and emails from guitarists and record labels who offer me their music, often and willingly with a link on Spotify (which I don’t use) or on Bandcamp or on Soundcloud. Often and willingly these are interesting projects but it’is almost impossible for me to…
Robert Poss, distorsione, verità, fiori, danza, film, fashion e industria su #neuguitars #blog
https://www.robertposs.com/ https://robertposs.bandcamp.com/releases Viviamo in un’epoca abbondantemente post moderna, dove reti, connessioni e rizomi svolgono un ruolo fondamentale. Dove la trasversalità è manifesta a ogni livello e la rigida distinzione tra generi è ormai un ricordo del passato. Questo, almeno nel mondo dell’Arte. Robert Poss è un perfetto esempio di questo atteggiamento artistico. Cresciuto negli anni…
La discografia di Diego Castro Magas su #neuguitars #blog
https://www.diegocastromagas.com Impressionante. Se non avete mai ascoltato Diego Castro Magas, preparatevi. E’ davvero impressionante. Mi ero accorto del suo talento una decina d’anni fa, per uno di quegli eventi fortuiti che sono la periodica dimostrazione che la fortuna non esiste. Ero sul sito di cdbaby e avevo impostato un ricerca inserendo come campi “guitar” e…
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 that luck doesn’t exist. I was on the cdbaby website and I had set up a search by entering “guitar”…
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 electric guitar sound. In a way, listening to them is like taking a mental leap. Both are the continuation of…
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 the logics present in the music scene, their way of presenting themselves with emails that looks like manifestos, their manifold…
Sunn O))) una passeggiata tra Black Sun, Monoliths&Dimension e l’ultimo Life Metal su #neuguitars #blog
L’ascolto del recente Life Metal, idolatrato dalla critica musicale, si è dimostrato essere l’occasione valida per dare un’occhiata un po’ più approfondita all’interno del mondo metal creato dai Sunn O))). Life Metal è un nuovo capitolo della loro saga musicale, o forse dovrei dire l’ultima runa metallica, una ruga caratterizzata questa volta dalla produzione di…
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 new chapter in their musical saga, or maybe I should say the last metallic rune, a wrinkle characterized this time…
Andy Summers e Robert Fripp. “I Advance Masked” (1982) e “Bewitched” (1984), il dinamico duo su #neuguitars #blog
Siamo nel 1982. Il successo dei Police si è ormai stabilizzato e orientato dopo quattro dischi uno più bello, uno più importante dell’altro. L’ultimo, Ghost in the Machine (1981), li vede in forma smagliante. Synchronicity, la pietra miliare, l’apogeo, lo zenith definitivo che consacrerà definitivamente il gruppo nel pantheon delle leggende del rock è in…
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 one, Ghost in the Machine (1981), sees them in great shape. Synchronicity, the milestone, the apogee, the definitive zenith that…
Rafael Toral Wave Field, Moneyland Records (MR$ 0595), Portugal, 1995 on #neuguitars #blog
Rafael Toral Wave Field, Moneyland Records (MR$ 0595), Portugal, 1995 http://rafaeltoral.net/ https://rafaeltoral-r.bandcamp.com/album/wave-field-remastered Wave Field 5 25:22 Wave Field 6 21:35 WF Radio Edit 3:01 “What kind of things do you collect? Teaspoons from airline companies.”1 The Portuguese musician Rafael Toral is well known in the experimental scene for having made excellent works based on drone…
Resophonic Guitar in Contemporary Music: The Wayward Trail by Elliot Simpson, Microfest Records, 2015 #review on #neuguitars #blog
Resophonic Guitar in Contemporary Music: The Wayward Trail by Elliot Simpson, Microfest Records, 2015 http://www.elliotsimpson.net/ http://microfestrecords.com/the-wayward-trail/ Let’s face it, Resophonic guitars have a special charm. For those who don’t know anything about they are a type of guitar invented in the United States of America at the end of the twenties byJohn Dopyera, Slovak emigrant….
La chitarra resofonica nella musica contemporanea: The Wayward Trail di Elliot Simpson, MicroFest Records, 2015 #recensione su #neuguitars #blog
La chitarra resofonica nella musica contemporanea: The Wayward Trail di Elliot Simpson, Microfest Records, 2015 http://www.elliotsimpson.net/ http://microfestrecords.com/the-wayward-trail/ Ammettiamolo, le chitarre resofoniche hanno un fascino particolare. Per chi non le conoscesse sono un tipo di chitarra inventato negli Stati Uniti d’America alla fine degli anni venti, da John Dopyera, emigrante slovacco. Forse sono più conosciute con…
Ornette Coleman’s Body Meta, forty years later on #neuguitars #blog
Ornette Coleman’s Body Meta, forty years later “Body Meta is the first Prime Time band recording. The Dancing In Your Head release came from these sessions. The name Prime Time was given because every rehearsal was done in such a will it be or not be manner (because of the difficulty of schéduling everybody for…
Talking about Pierre Bensusan on #neuguitars #blog
Talking about Pierre Bensusan http://www.pierrebensusan.com/ I met Pierre Bensusan in a really random way, buying and reading a copy of the italian magazine “Chitarre” in 1987, No. 11 February 1987. I bought it for the cover and for the interview dedicated to Eric Clapton, I admit, but inside I found too an interesting interview to…
Ornette Coleman’s Body Meta, quarant’anni dopo su #neuguitars #blog
Ornette Coleman’s Body Meta, quarant’anni dopo “Body Meta is the first Prime Time band recording. The Dancing In Your Head release came from these sessions. The name Prime Time was given because every rehearsal was done in such a will it be or not be manner (because of the difficulty of schéduling everybody for rehearsals)….
Parlando di Pierre Bensusan su #neuguitars #blog
Parlando di Pierre Bensusan http://www.pierrebensusan.com/ Ho conosciuto Pierre Bensusan in modo davvero casuale, comprando e leggendo nel 1987 una copia della rivista italiana Chitarre, N. 11 Febbraio 1987. L’avevo comprata per la copertina e per l’intervista dedicata a Eric Clapton, lo ammetto, ma all’interno trovai anche l’intervista a questo chitarrista acustico francese, all’epoca trentenne che…
A Tribute to Leif Christensen, thirty years after on #neuguitars #blog
A Tribute to Leif Christensen, thirty years after. Who was Leif Christensen? Leif Christensen (1950-1988) born in Arhus, Denmark, studied the theory and history of music at Arhus University (1972), followed by guitar studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Arhus. After graduating in 1977, he completed his studies with Konrad Ragossnig at the…
Steve Reich’s contemporary guitar music on #neuguitar #blog
Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich’s style of composition influenced many composers and groups. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It’s…
