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Dom Minasi: Looking Out, Looking In
by Bruce Lindsay
Over three days in July, 2011 guitarist Dom Minasi entered Studio 104 in New York and recorded seven solo electric guitar improvisations. The tunes, gathered together as Looking Out, Looking In, form Minasi's first ever solo album. The guitarist is an experienced improviser with an extensive discography. He's capable of impressive flights of musical fancy, of inspired and inspiring ideas. Minasi's previous 2011 release, The Bird, The Girl & The Donkey (Re:konstruKt) featured some intense and challenging ...
read moreBlaise Siwula and Dom Minasi: Live at The Matt Bevel Institute
by Gordon Marshall
Dom Minasi is an acutely sensitive guitarist with an oblique approach and an aim to please, plucking his way through runs with persistence and nerve. His live duet with saxophonist Blaise Siwula sums these qualities up neatly, in configurations that unfold and build up melodically through a set that, by the end, is enveloped in a glorious buzz.
A paradox is at work within Minasi's style. His lines underscoring Siwula's sax passages have a geometrical torque, but he inflects them ...
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