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Elliott Sharp: Octal - Book One

Read "Octal - Book One" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Questo album firmato dal chitarrista sperimentale Elliott Sharp concentra il lavoro esecutivo su uno strumento a otto corde costruito dal liutaio Saul Koll che prevede le sei corde tradizionali della chitarra aumentate da due corde sul versante dei bassi. L’accordatura è assolutamente standard per quanto riguarda la parte mutuata dalla chitarra e conseguentemente le due corde basse sono accordate rispettivamente in Mi e in Si, una ottava più in basso rispetto alle altre corde. Tutto è molto tradizionale, pur nell’ambito ...

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Elliott Sharp: Concert In Dachau

Read "Concert In Dachau" reviewed by Nic Jones


Vocabulary is arguably the key ingredient in any entirely solo performance on any instrument other than the piano. Concert In Dachau is, perhaps, the best realized music Electroacoustic guitarist Elliott Sharp has ever committed to record. It's rare to get the chance to take in a musician's very thought processes as is possible here, and a by-product is Sharp's vocabulary being is thrown into stark relief. It's to his resounding credit that it's rich, varied and alive with nuance.

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Elliott Sharp: Concert in Dachau & Octal

Read "Elliott Sharp: Concert in Dachau & Octal" reviewed by Marc Medwin


Elliott Sharp Concert in Dachau Intakt 2007 Elliott Sharp Octal Clean Feed 2007

Guitarist Elliott Sharp adds two more entries to his lengthy and diverse discography with these solo discs. Both are chock full of his customary timbral innovation and rhythmic multiplicity. Concert in Dachau is really magical, ...

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Elliott Sharp: pi:k (2004/5) & Breaking News

Read "Elliott Sharp: pi:k (2004/5) & Breaking News" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Elliott Sharp/Charlotte Hug pi:k (2004/5) Emanem 2007 Simone Massaron Breaking News Long Song 2007

For two relatively similar instruments, the guitar and the viola have very different sounds. At least, that is, until put in the hands of Elliott Sharp and Charlotte Hug. In the wonderful cacophony of their duo record pi:k, the ...

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Elliott Sharp's Terraplane: Forgery

Read "Forgery" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Guitarist Elliott Sharp, one of the most influential and innovative figures on the avant-garde New York downtown scene of the last generation, claims that his blues outfit Terraplane (coined after Robert Johnson's “Terraplane Blues") is actually a pop band that lacks only popularity. He is absolutely right. Forgery—the group's fifth release—is its most direct, compact, emotional and, ultimately, most matured to date.Sharp's proficiency is so well-versed in the blues vocabulary, inside and out, that one can imagine him ...

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Elliott Sharp’s Terraplane: Forgery

Read "Forgery" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Con questo nuovo lavoro, Forgery - dedicato alla “contraffatta" convinzione che New York sia il centro creativo del mondo, mentre invece è da qualche anno prevalentemente immobilizzata nei propri cliché - i Terraplane di Elliott Sharp vanno, come si suol dire, dritto al sodo. Band che da qualche anno sta lavorando a un attento rinnovamento della materia musicale blues, i Terraplane possiedono in eguale misura coesione e elasticità e tentano con questi undici nuovi brani di stringere con la tradizione ...

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Elliott Sharp - Reinhold Friedl: Feuchtify

Read "Feuchtify" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Chi ha ancora nelle orecchie The Velocity of Hue, il bellissimo lavoro in solo per chitarra acustica di Elliott Sharp, è bene che non si lasci scappare Feuchtify. Strategie, spettri, dettagli di strumentazione tornano ad essere l’essenza di questo nuovo lavoro del musicista americano in collaborazione con il pianista Reinhold Friedl. Feuchtify contiene tredici tracce registrate al Tonic di New York (e poi mixate in uno studio di Berlino Est) in cui l’approccio improvvisativo, vero nocciolo della lirica poetica del ...


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