After I have listened to Giocondas Smile by Manos Hadjidakis I want to present another famous work by this composer. In the late 1960s Hadjidakis lived in New York and made a recording of some of his compositions with a group named the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble. This LP was titled Reflections and […]
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The music by Hadjidakis has led me to some videos by a huge orchestra of guitars that has played concerts in Greece, especially in anold Greek amphitheater – it must have been a great event. I have selected a video with the Libertango by Astor Piazolla as first, because this video shows a little bit
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I have recently found some interesting videos of guitarists from Greece, and so I decided it was time to find some interesting music from Greece with guitar and mandolin. Today i want to present a work by Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis which is performed by a big orchestra including two mandolins and two guitars. It
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Coconami is the name of a ukulele duo from Munich – two musicians from Japan who present themselves on their myspace page like this: coconami = two Japanese stranded in Munich Germany coconami has left Rock’n’Roll behind and simply wants to please, in a pure and simple way. two ukuleles, one vocalist. (Nami) twitters like
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Dan James is a singer who uses his mandocello or cittern to accompany his songs. He also uses a 7-string guitar. This is an introduction about Dan James taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2008/06/24/dan_james_group.shtml Dan James has been a full time professional musician since 1997. When he’s not writing music or gigging he does this and that (mostly
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The best guitar quartets – Review by the German guitar and luth magazine Gitarre und Laute Here are some more interesting videos of great guitar quartets from the review. Corona Guitar Quartet: East L.A. Phase Corona Guitar Kvartet: www.coronaguitarkvartet.dk, composer: Wayne Siegel Aquarelle Guitar Quartet You can find several examples played by the Aquarelle Guitar
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