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Guitar Moderne Festival XXVIII and Test

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The season of festivals has begun. For those who are short of cash and/or hate crowds comes the latest virtual Guitar Moderne  Fesival. From the land of Raoul Bjorkenheim and Jimi Sumen comes a recent discovery for me, Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima, along with stalwarts Ava Menzoza, David Torn, and Tim Brady.

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Kalima-Steidle-Spallati live on Kaisersteg 2020

Klima Kalima are Living in a BOX #38 | live at Club Gretchen

Ava Mendoza / James Brandon Lewis / Devin Hoff | AFA On_Line Salon

David Torn & Sun of Goldfinger @ the Walnut Room 

Tim Brady – Instruments of Happiness – 100 guitares 2023 – Festival Int’l. de Jazz de Montréal

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Sorry, Test, and Cool Video

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My apologies to all the Guitar Moderne fans out there for being missing in action for months. I was having serious website issues and needed to transfer hosts. It took a lot longer than it should have and I apologize.

Here is the first post in a long time, a cool video of modern guitarist Jonathan Crossley improvising with and being interviewed by percussionist Rodrigo Constanzo.

It will serve as a test as to whether my subscriber emails are still going out and everything is working as it should. Thank you for your patience.

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David Torn with Don Cherry – Live at Empire Theatre, Paris 1979

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For a brief time, David Torn was a sideman for the legendary musician Don Cherry. “Don was encouraging me to do things I’ve been doing anyway, saying, ‘This is your shit, you’re not really a guitar player, don’t worry about the guitar, just make these sounds, do whatever you need to do.’”  As this video shows, forty-five years ago he was already Torn.

 

 

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The Anthony Pirog Interview II

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Anthony Pirog is a modern guitar hero on the level of his heroes Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, et al. In some ways he transcends them in his ability to deftly navigate a variety of genres—Jazz, Rock, Noise, Country, Ambient—genuinely but with his own take. At the time of this interview, his latest release is a collection of ambient guitar duos with Nels Cline, John Frusciante, Luke Stewart, Andy Summers, Janel Leppin, Brandon Ross, Wendy Eisenberg and Ryan Ferreira called on Otherly Love Records called The Nepenthe Series Vol. I.

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