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Francesco Guaiana: Bandha

Read "Bandha" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Chitarrista e compositore esperto, formatosi anche con una lunga permanenza negli Stati Uniti, il palermitano Francesco Guaiana pubblica per Dodicilune questo album composito, articolato su dieci brani originali (solo “Go Back" non della sua penna e scritto dal bassista Gabrio Bevilacqua), nel succedersi dei quali la formazione cambia ripetutamente. La cifra della musica è lirica e allo stesso tempo molto eclettica, anche grazie proprio alla varietà dell'organico di volta in volta in scena; i tempi sono in prevalenza ...

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Francesco Guaiana Triptyque: The Spoiled Tree

Read "The Spoiled Tree" reviewed by Phil DiPietro


Palermo has, in turns, been designated Italy's cultural, economic, and tourist capital. It has not heretofore been acknowledged for its avant-garde, solo acoustic, spontaneous improv, or modern jazz scenes. Through his consistent issuance of aural postcards from his Byzantine outpost, guitarist Francesco Guaiana has quietly emerged as the region's most gifted practitioner at all of these sub-genres.

2002's Nojaz (Exaudi Records) melded free, inside-outside playing to textural atmospherics, while 2006's solo guitar outing, Clouds in Motion (FGR), adroitly employed loops ...

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Francesco Guaiana / Luca Lo Bianco / Jimmy Weinstein: Hitch_Hikers

Read "Hitch_Hikers" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Jazz lives! Brothers and sisters, ever since a fan scrawled that “Bird lives quote around New York to keep the memory of Charlie Parker from fading, the rallying cry has never been in doubt. Institutionalize the music by way of repertory companies and schooling, and the expression happens in the streets. Eliminate the jazz division from a major record company and independents pop up.

Fashioned by individual and group expression, jazz drummer Jimmy Weinstein's recordings always present a ...

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Francesco Guaiana: Clouds in Motion

Read "Clouds in Motion" reviewed by Phil DiPietro


There's not much information out there about one of 2002's finest recordings, NoJaz, by a talented young group led by our man-of-the-moment, guitarist Francesco Guaiana, hailing from Palermo, Sicily. A diamond in the vast mine of indie jazz, its virtuosically painted inside/outside-isms are tethered to an ECM folk aesthetic. Four years later, we have a solo guitar recording from Guaiana, now 33, who proves a talent to be reckoned with in this idiom as well.

Guaiana touches on a litany ...

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Francesco Guaiana Trio: Nojaz

Read "Nojaz" reviewed by Phil DiPietro


I don't know about you, but the “Jazz is Dead" press pool is really starting to bug me. The scene is so vibrant, so full of talent, so everywhere and so alive that it's nothing short of overwhelming. Releases like this are here to remind - no convince - us of that - they're just not easily dug out at your local record shop. In terms of the Biz, workarounds (involving a computer, a charge card and your friendly, neighborhood ...

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New Release "Unsaid Songs" By Francesco Guaiana Quartet

New Release "Unsaid Songs" By Francesco Guaiana Quartet

Source: Workin' Label

FRANCESCO GUAIANA QUARTET “UNSAID SONGS” FROM 20 OCTOBER IN RECORD STORES AND DIGITAL DOWNLOAD Workin’ Label 2014 / IRD Distribution FRANCESCO GUIANA - guitar ALESSANDRO PRESTI - trumpet and flughelhorn LUCA LO BIANCO - electric and acoustic bass FABRIZIO GIAMBANCO - drums Unsaid Song is the new album of the guitarist and composer Francesco Guaiana that, after several experimental experiences and collaborations with artists of different ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Bandha

Dodicilune Records
2020

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The Spoiled Tree

Fitzcarraldo Records
2010

buy

Hitch_Hikers

Self Produced
2007

buy

Genge

From: Unsaid songs
By Francesco Guaiana

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