This week Neuguitars suggests these records by Jo Jena, Elliott Sharp, Tashi Dorji, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Luca Sigurtà and Sergio Albano
on Imm Records, zOaR Music, Suoni Possibili Records,
trial 721 by Jo Jena
„trial 721“ is informed by the methodology of clinical studies. the septets and duet are composed following modern avantgarde techniques and represent the rigour of science. in contrast, the improvised solo pieces stand for the subjectivity of the probands involved in such regulated processes. their unpredictability, vulnerability and structural religiosity don’t really fit into the system, but you can’t ignore them either. „rosenzweig“ is a modal jazz composition performed on solo acoustic guitar.
released January 19, 2024
jo jena - acoustic and electric guitars
Arbor by Elliott Sharp
A collection of arboreal pieces for solo acoustic guitar - wood transformed into a resonator with the help of metal oscillators and digital manipulation: that is, actions performed by digits, fingers on hands. Thematic improvisations around and in the trees - austere and intense. Performed on a Dell Arte Anouman acoustic guitar.
released January 19, 2024
Composed and performed by Elliott Sharp
At House Unamerican by MANAS + E.M.M.
More than anything, "At House Unamerican" calls to mind Masayuki Takanayagi's legendary "mass projections" - a series of sonic molotov cocktails setting whole streets aflame with incendiary guitar shred, landsliding drums, and crackling sheets of sound. In fact, looking back through Menuck's kaleidoscopic career this might actually be the most liberated we have heard him as a guitar player - and that furious sense of freedom finds welcome kin in Nguyen and Dorji's own expansive creative visions. These recent collaborations certainly have us salivating for the long-awaited follow-up to the duo's last studio album, 2017's III.
released September 1, 2023
Thom Nguyen: Drums
Tashi Dorji: Electric Guitar
Efrim Manuel Menuck: Electric Guitar
Concetto Spaziale by Luca Sigurtà & Sergio Albano
Concetto Spaziale is a project by Luca Sigurtà and Sergio Albano (Amklon) and is a concept about identity. This music compresses city spaces, genre and instrumentalism into an amorphous form. There are breakdowns of information and randomness. Like a game, it could go many ways and at the same time only one.
released January 10, 2024
Luca Sigurtà & Sergio Albano: synth, guitars, effects, tape loops.