During the last months I’ve had the pleasure to spend some time with Egle Sommacal and there are some thoughts I can’t get out of my head since I met him. The subtractive attitude that let you catch the purest and more abstract perception of emot …
Billy Torello is the alter ego of Angelo Bignamini from Italy. He's a drummer in the psych band The Great Saunites and records grinding noise with the Lucifer Big Band. While this is all heavy and grim stuff, his recordings as Billy Torello is superb …
J.H. Guraj is the alter ego of Dominique Vaccaro from Bologna, Italy. In the past he was working as a visual artist and electro-acoustic musician in the field of musique concrète with analog devices and tape recorders or playing in the avant-blues p …
Italy turns out as treasure trove of wonderful solo guitar music.
A few days ago a friend of mine sent me an album to check out. For some reason I thought it was his recordings and he was asking what I my opinion was.
I told him that I thought it had …
This is a relatively unknown fingerstyle solo guitar album from the early eighties, out of Italy.
Enrico Marcandalli’s music shifts between classical guitar, world music, bits of blues and jazz. I have to admit, this album didn't stroke a chord in …
During the last months I’ve had the pleasure to spend some time with Egle and there are some thoughts I can’t get out of my head since I met him. The subtractive attitude that let you catch the purest and more abstract perception of emotions, the …
Waswas is Alessandro Denti from Monza in Italy. It's always a pleasure to receive contributions of solo guitar music.
Denti's music reminds me more on the solo guitar pieces by guitarists like George Cromarty, Scott Witte, Daniel Hecht or Bob …
A lot is happening around Robbie Basho lately. The documentary Voice of the Eagle just got screened on the Raindance Festival. Steffen Basho-Junghans found acquired[1] Robbie Basho's missing 12-string guitar that got discovered during the productio …
Laboule is Paolo Novellino from Northern Italy that means somewhere around the mighty Alps. Robbie Basho's "Rocky Mountain Raga" seemed to change him and he focused again on guitar.
Refugio is a relaxed folk album between songs and solo acoustic …
