ANDREA MASSARIA - New Needs Need New Techniques
Leo Records CD LR 896
Andrea Massaria, guitar and effects; Francesco Forges, voice on track 2
Recorded at Crossroad Recording Studio, Milan, Italy, 29th July 2020
Andrea Massaria, guitar and effects; Francesco Forges, voice on track 2Recorded at Crossroad Recording Studio, Milan, Italy, 29th July 2020
Andrea Massaria is an Italian guitar player and composer based in Trieste, Italia, where he was born in 1965 and began studying classical guitar at the age of eleven.
He was deeply involved with classical guitar, but since 1990 has dedicated himself to contemporary music, experimentation, improvisation and jazz. He draws from a wide range of influences, from free jazz to textural sound-works, from noise to contemporary classical music. He works on exploring the raw qualities of his instrument and to discern what the guitar is capable of in sound and expression, with or without preparation. He has been voted, frequently, among the best Italian guitarists in the top jazz classifications in Italian jazz music journals.
Since 1998 he has toured widely with his own groups and as a side musician, for important festivals in Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Holland, Slovenia and Switzerland and runs seminars and workshops throughout Italy. He is also involved in intensive concert activity in Italy and abroad both as leader and as a guest with various groups.
He has collaborated with numerous musicians including Sylvie Courvoisier, Oliver Lake, Paul Lytton, Mat Maneri, Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips and many others. He teaches jazz guitar at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia (Venice).
New Needs Need New Techniques shows us a solo guitarist and solo guitar with a difference, and this is his first, solo CD. There is no stylistic reference point for what he does, as he made this up for himself, naming abstract expressionist painters, Pollock, Rauschenberg and Rothko, as his bridge between the two art forms: music and painting. His ‘electric guitar style’ is his, entirely, using compilations of various approaches to his attack on the instrument, adding drones, echoes, pedal effects, radio clips and overlaid vocals and of course, altering or exaggerating the natural reverb of whichever room or space he finds himself in.
Be prepared to welcome a new sound to your listening, as the distinguishing timbre of the guitar’s sound has here been enriched.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
Leo Records CD LR 896
Andrea Massaria, guitar and effects; Francesco Forges, voice on track 2
Recorded at Crossroad Recording Studio, Milan, Italy, 29th July 2020
Andrea Massaria, guitar and effects; Francesco Forges, voice on track 2Recorded at Crossroad Recording Studio, Milan, Italy, 29th July 2020
Andrea Massaria is an Italian guitar player and composer based in Trieste, Italia, where he was born in 1965 and began studying classical guitar at the age of eleven.
He was deeply involved with classical guitar, but since 1990 has dedicated himself to contemporary music, experimentation, improvisation and jazz. He draws from a wide range of influences, from free jazz to textural sound-works, from noise to contemporary classical music. He works on exploring the raw qualities of his instrument and to discern what the guitar is capable of in sound and expression, with or without preparation. He has been voted, frequently, among the best Italian guitarists in the top jazz classifications in Italian jazz music journals.
Since 1998 he has toured widely with his own groups and as a side musician, for important festivals in Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Holland, Slovenia and Switzerland and runs seminars and workshops throughout Italy. He is also involved in intensive concert activity in Italy and abroad both as leader and as a guest with various groups.
He has collaborated with numerous musicians including Sylvie Courvoisier, Oliver Lake, Paul Lytton, Mat Maneri, Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips and many others. He teaches jazz guitar at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia (Venice).
New Needs Need New Techniques shows us a solo guitarist and solo guitar with a difference, and this is his first, solo CD. There is no stylistic reference point for what he does, as he made this up for himself, naming abstract expressionist painters, Pollock, Rauschenberg and Rothko, as his bridge between the two art forms: music and painting. His ‘electric guitar style’ is his, entirely, using compilations of various approaches to his attack on the instrument, adding drones, echoes, pedal effects, radio clips and overlaid vocals and of course, altering or exaggerating the natural reverb of whichever room or space he finds himself in.
Be prepared to welcome a new sound to your listening, as the distinguishing timbre of the guitar’s sound has here been enriched.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
