The last time we listened to Low was to see that, after “Double Negative”, they did it again: the band had released another masterpiece that would stand the test of time and listening. In our review we wrote that the record shortened the distance between the studio band and the live band. Indeed, we were…
It’s been almost two years since I accidentally discovered that Conrado Isasa, a Spanish guitarist of Uruguayan origin who is associated with the world of so-called American Primitive Guitar, but known for a very personal style, would be playing near my house. The discovery came through Facebook and thanks to the invitation of a “friend”…
Fans of ambient (or atmospheric, if we want to use a wider and freer term) music surely are a particular breed of listeners: they get excited and exalted by music that – let’s face it – most rock lovers would define as boring junk in which nothing happens, good at nothing but to provide a…
Come promesso, dopo un anno o poco più ci ritroviamo qui a parlare di chitarra, anche se con qualche differenza rispetto alla scorsa volta. Se nel precedente articolo ci eravamo occupati esclusivamente di chitarra fingerpicking, quest’anno proviamo ad allargare un po’ le maglie della nostra analisi, parlando in generale di quegli artisti che hanno messo…
As promised, after a year or so we find ourselves here talking about guitar, albeit with some differences compared to the last time. If in the previous article we dealt exclusively with fingerpicking guitar, this year we’ll try to widen a little bit the look of our analysis, speaking in general of those artists who…
Probably they don’t need an introduction, but let’s pretend they do. So… Squadra Omega is an “Italian-cosmic-psych-impro collective” group that started playing music in 2009. This is what they write about themselves on their Bandcamp page and I would say that these few news are enough, because one of the reasons of the band’s charm…
Italy has a problem with its folk music. I’m not talking about singer-songwriters with the acoustic guitar that in the sixties/seventies spread like wildfire giving life to a famous musical season, but rather I’m alluding to the national musical heritage that, settling in the decades before our colonization by the American sounds and imagination, constituted…
… and just when no one was looking in that direction, new and unexpected dispatches came from the more residential and hipster part of our musical city. We allude to those residential neighborhoods inhabited mostly by British musicians who have passion for vintage, deal with post-modernism and modern antiques and are crazy for pop (not…
Art Brut – She Kissed Me – And It Felt Like A Hit | Pirate LiveWatch this video on YouTube “The Doors? Jim Morrison? He’s a drunk, posing as a poet. Give me The Guess Who. They got the courage to be drunken buffoons, which makes them poetic! “ So far I had only the…
Ora che il frastuono delle classifiche di fine anno è passato, vogliamo approfittare della quiete prima della nuova tempesta per parlare di uno stile musicale che proprio di quiete necessita per essere apprezzato. Parliamo del cosiddetto “fingerstyle” o “fingerpicking”, nome che si rifà alla tecnica utilizzata per suonare lo strumento principe di tale genere ovvero…