Good to see the electic guitar getting a concertante outing, and in such an unconventional fashion! The Guardian recently ran an article on the 10 best metal-meets-classical pieces, and while most of the suggestions posted were along the lines of predictable Baroque covers (bearing the inevitable misnomer “Neoclassical” – I could weep…), someone mentioned a solo piece available on Naxos, Ingwe. The title is an Aboriginal term for night (the Luxembourg-born composer, Georges Lentz, lives in the Outback), and while the piece starts off sounding like the work of a particularly tritone-happy Joe Satriani, it quickly moves on to an evocation of harsh, inscrutable vastness involving some very alien sounds indeed…
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Good to see the electic guitar getting a concertante outing, and in such an unconventional fashion! The Guardian recently ran an article on the 10 best metal-meets-classical pieces, and while most of the suggestions posted were along the lines of predictable Baroque covers (bearing the inevitable misnomer “Neoclassical” – I could weep…), someone mentioned a solo piece available on Naxos, Ingwe. The title is an Aboriginal term for night (the Luxembourg-born composer, Georges Lentz, lives in the Outback), and while the piece starts off sounding like the work of a particularly tritone-happy Joe Satriani, it quickly moves on to an evocation of harsh, inscrutable vastness involving some very alien sounds indeed…