Mikkel Ploug Alleviation

Mikkel Ploug - Alleviation (2017/2018) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Mikkel Ploug - Alleviation (2017/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 45:48 minutes | 1,61 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Solo jazz guitar records are not that common, solo acoustic guitar records perhaps even less so outside of the classical and folk/world traditions. Apart from Ralph Towner, Earl Klugh and Gene Bertoncini it’s hard to think of many guitarists in jazz today primarily making music on an unamplified acoustic instrument. But Ploug (co-leader and main composer of the avant chamber jazz trio Equilibrium, with three releases on Songlines) is a jazz guitarist with interests in folk, world and classical music. And the guitar that inspired him to create and record this program is neither a classical guitar nor some ordinary folk/blues/bluegrass guitar.

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Posted by Pisulik at Oct. 13, 2017
Mikkel Ploug - Alleviation (2017)

Mikkel Ploug - Alleviation (2017)
Jazz, Guitar | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:45:53 | 107 MB
Label: Songlines

This is a record for guitar connoisseurs of all kinds. Last year Danish jazz guitarist Mikkel Ploug fell in love with a rare all-mahogany 1945 Gibson Banner acoustic guitar that he ran into while on tour in the US. Back home he ended up creating a whole program of new compositions on it, interweaving aspects of folk (fingerpicking), jazz, and contemporary classical styles such as minimalism. Solo acoustic guitar music has seldom sounded so tonally warm, intricately structured, and rhythmically alive as this. Much of the music also has an intimate, inward-looking quality about it that seems to hark back to the origins of folk/blues guitar as a very personal accompanist to the human voice. Some pieces are in the nature of tributes - to Ben Monder, Steve Reich, Olivier Messiaen.
Mikkel Ploug - Day In The Sun (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Mikkel Ploug - Day In The Sun (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 64:07 minutes | 2,13 GB
Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Danish guitarist and composer Mikkel Ploug (b.1978) has performed all over Europe, Brazil and the US with his bands Mikkel Ploug Group, Mikkel Ploug Trio and Equilibrium.