In the Wilderness ~ Soft Guitars ~ 1-6-26

Greek guitarist Antigoni Goni once told an interviewer, “The guitar is capable of producing many colors and voices, but these colors do not originate from the instrument. They originate inside the mind of the artist, who must cultivate the ability to tap into this universe and create these colors through the guitar.” This month on KXRW’s “In the Wilderness,” guitarists create hypnotic colors! We’ll hear the ethereal hues of The Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly, while Sean Shibe, Andy Summers, and Rüdiger Krause recast jazz piano works by Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, and Carla Bley as guitar solos. Goni strums excerpts from “Gioconda’s Smile,” a suite originally for orchestra by Manos Hadjidakis, an Oscar winner who refused the award! Neil Molloy hosts. 

ICYMI: Show archive: https://kxrw.fm/inthewilderness/ 

S O U N D S   B Y : 

The Durutti Column   Requiem Again (Vini Reilly, Factory Once)

Sean Shibe  Evans: Peace Piece (Lost & Found, PENTATONE)

The Durutti Column  Catos con Guantes (The Guitar and Other Machines: 30th Anniversary re-issue, Factory Benelux)

The Marilyn Decade   Where the River Meets the Sea (The Marilyn Decade, Freek Records)

fill: The Durutti Column   Bordeaux Sequence (The Guitar and Other Machines: 30th Anniversary re-issue, Factory Benelux)

Rüdiger Krause   Ida Lupino (A Guitar Named Carla, Jazzwerkstatt)

Andy Summers   Ruby, My Dear (Green Chimneys: The Music of Thelonious Monk, BMG Classics/RCA Victor)

Antigoni Goni   Hadjidakis: Gioconda’s Smile, mvts. i & ii  (Hymn to the Muse, Timespan Recordings)

Petter Richter   Tansman: Sarabande, from Cavatina for guitar (The Distant Sarabande, LydFest)