SKU: FG.55011-071-7

ISBN 9790550110717.

Completed in Karstula, Finland during late July 2010, this carefully structured, but also free-ranging work is drawn from ideas for a much earlier work in four movements, Fantasy dating from the 1980s.
Kai Nieminen has been for a long time an admirer of the work of artist Paul Klee (1879-1940), and the solo presented in its final form here is influenced by the painting Dances caused by Fear or as it is often refered to Dancing from Fear painted towards the end of Klee's life in Bern, 1938.
Having left Germany for Switzerland in December 1933, Klee's later works were often full of signs and lines, very often represented in black, depicting human figures or various objects against a variety of coloured backgrounds, in the case of this painting of a brownish hue. This development in his painting style and technique is felt by some to be an effect perhaps of his long-term illness, systemic sclerosis, but in the case of Dances caused by Fear there is suggested an atmosphere of panic and terror, an attempt to escape from horrors to come (World War II), represented in the violent movement of the arms and legs of the figures, and the dark, indeed brooding nature of the colours.
In Kai Nieminen's guitar work Images of Fear, there is only a very brief passage of calm at the very beginning, after which come three main connected sections in which a wide range of musically unsettling ideas emerge one by one, making use of the tritone, minor seconds, glissandos, tamboura, campanella, etc. The third and final section incorporates the grouping of 5 sixteenth-notes, to give an uneasy feeling to the music, with a short haunting and pleading five-note phrase (Cantando) heard immediately following this passage, before the work ends with further glissandos, and distant and diminishing harmonics.
As with Kai Nieminen's other guitar works, the use of 'orchestral colour' is vital to the performance, and passages suggestive of for example brass, strings, woodwind, etc., should be taken into account and played with suitably considered contrast of tone.

John Mills.

SKU: DZ.DZ-4273

ISBN 9782898521904.

Composé à l'occasion de la naissance d'un premier enfant, une fille née au mois de mai.

Dédiée à son fier père, le guitariste turc Serhat Bulut.

La pièce démarre dans l'expectative, puis se dessine dans des sonorités orientales, suivie d'un passage tendre représentant le berçage d'un enfant.

La pièce se termine par un intervalle mélodique dans lequel chaque bébé dit maman et papa pour la première fois.

Composed on the occasion of the birth of a first child, a girl born in the month of May.

Dedicated to her proud father, the Turkish guitarist Serhat Bulut.

The piece starts expectantly, then takes shape in oriental sounds, followed by a tender passage depicting the cradling of a child.

The piece ends with a melodic interval in which each baby says mommy and daddy for the first time.

SKU: BT.MUSMI0349

Italian.

Quest’opera presenta una serie di accompagnamenti ed assoli di chitarra nello stile Modern Blues o Blues Fusion.

Scoprirete quindi degli accompagnamenti che si appoggiano sul blues tradizionale per poi arricchirloabbondantemente, sia dal punto di vista armonico che ritmico. Suonerete poi gli assoli, i quali arricchiscono, come le ritmiche, il blues tradizionale, ma piuttosto dal punto di vista melodico.

Essi sono costruiti sulleprogressioni armoniche tipiche dello stile Modern Blues. Dal blues/jazz al blues/funk passando per il blues minore... c’è di che ampliare la propria visione del blues sulla chitarra! Da Robben Ford a JohnScofield,passando per Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Moore o Larry Carlton… le fonti d'ispirazione non mancano per evocare questo stile! Per ogni accompagnamento ed assolo, troverete 5 registrazioni diverse sul CD MP3 allegato,distribuite nel modo seguente: la chitarra da sola, a velocità normale poi ridotta, la stessa parte di chitarra suonata però sulla sua base musicale ed infine la sola base musicale, prima a velocità normale,poi ridotta... per permettere ad ognuno di suonare secondo il proprio ritmo, il proprio livello e le proprie capacità.

Ossia più di 4 ore di musica in tutto!

SKU: UT.CH-101

ISBN 9790215315815. 9 x 12 inches.

Composition winner of the 2nd Edition (2008) of the Classical Guitar Musical Composition Competition â??Suoni Nuovi Autoriâ?? in Latina, Italy (Section 1)
The composition Roma born after a short travel in the eternal city. The multiple cultural, historical and landscaped stimuli that derive from its ruins must touch the mind of every visitor dipping it and transporting it behind in the history: these are the feelings that have inspired the composition of a conceptualistic-descriptive music work, dedicated to the places that more meant during the authorâ??s travel.
First part, â??Anfiteatro Flavioâ??, is clearly dedicated to Colosseo. It is so imposing and majestic that recalls still today the outcry of the battles and the noise of the iron: all that is translate in music with frequent changes of time and a virtuosistic and pressing writing. The apex of the fight marks in the composition a growing culminated in a moment of suspension and the immediate resumption with change of theme for the victory moment and its majestic celebration.
The second part, â??Villa Borgheseâ??, marks the passage to a situation of ecstasy and serenity inspired from the beauty and tranquillity of the places of the famous roman park. The composition develops with sweetness but are also present dissonant notes that recall the park contextualizzation in the heart of the city, with its chaotic present and with the urgent violence of its past.