Farewell Mimi
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 [Continua a leggere]
November 2022
April 2021
The lucid dream of Conrado Isasa
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 [Continua a leggere]
October 2020
Tim Hecker, the shape of sound
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 - [Continua a leggere]
March 2020
The Art of Fingerstyle Guitar (And More) in 2019
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 [Continua a leggere]
January 2020
“Squadra Omega to Antiterra. Can you hear us?”
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 [Continua a leggere]
November 2019
Matt Elliott – Live at Ligera, Milan 28.11.2019
Matt Elliott is the man behind Third Eye Foundation, one of those groups for which the post-rock acronym was used for the first time, but he is also the author of "Drinking [Continua a leggere]
Folk, living matter: a journey inside British “contemporary folk” music
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 [Continua a leggere]
August 2019
A Sophisticated Adventuress. Between Vanishing Twin and Tomaga: Valentina Magaletti
... 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 [Continua a leggere]
June 2019
Art Brut Or About The Meaning Of “Live” For An Average Forty-year-old Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwPAoUhvSOQ&w "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 [Continua a leggere]
February 2019
The Art Of Fingerstyle Guitar in 2018
2018 has been a good year for fingerstyle guitar, very good year! For those who might not know what it is, "fingerstyle" or "fingerpicking" is a name that refers to the technique [Continua a leggere]
