Guitarist Sean Shibe has been known for daring programming, and an album of Spanish guitar music might seem a retreat to normalcy, but this is not the case. Shibe devises a program that brings in a wide variety of effects and moods and executes it all flawlessly. He adopts a monklike appearance (and actually shows himself in some of the graphics with a clipper, shearing off his hair), and it fits well with the main works on the program, the Suite compostelana and the Cançons i danses of Frederic Mompou, the latter in guitar ...
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Guitarist Sean Shibe has been known for daring programming, and an album of Spanish guitar music might seem a retreat to normalcy, but this is not the case. Shibe devises a program that brings in a wide variety of effects and moods and executes it all flawlessly. He adopts a monklike appearance (and actually shows himself in some of the graphics with a clipper, shearing off his hair), and it fits well with the main works on the program, the Suite compostelana and the Cançons i danses of Frederic Mompou, the latter in guitar transcriptions by the composer. The music of Mompou has an almost mystical quality of retiring into oneself; it's difficult to interpret and doubly so for guitarists, but Shibe's readings are entrancing. Against Mompou, he sets several contrasting elements. Shibe freely makes use of arrangements to get his points across, and there's a little bit of Spanish fire to start, in the form of the "Danza del Molinero" from Falla's El sombrero de tres picos, and various shades of the Spanish...
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