Mancuso Mateo

A fascinating album featuring spellbinding recordings of Bach’s Suites and Partitas on the guitar, interspersed by first recordings of György Kurtág’s four short pieces extracted from “Darabok a Gitáriskolának”. Performed with finesse and utmost sensitivity, Pedro Mateo González guides us in a voyage through Back and Kurtág’s music, recorded in the sumptuous acoustics of the 13th Century Convent of San Francisco, in Ávila, Spain.

Irka Mateo, global citizen, singer-songwriter, and Grammy Foundation supported folk music researcher, fronts the stellar band, La Tirindanga. This is an artistic endeavor that expands the boundaries of Dominican music, while building bridges to Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and the United States.

Kingman, 24, is a singer-songwriter of Ecuadorian Amazonian music that fuses traditional Latin American sounds with hip-hop, rock, and pop. Respira, his debut album, is an energy overload that sings of biodiversity, sketching natural landscapes of magic and water colors. It is infused with sounds guiding the listener from the jungle and to high mountains, between the tangle of trees and the meandering sound of the wind on the moors.

La sua rubrica sul "Foglio" è un appuntamento fisso per critici e appassionati di cinema. Una delle voci più pungenti del giornalismo cinematografico italiano, Mariarosa Mancuso raccoglie in "Nuovo Cinema Mancuso" il suo personalissimo punto di vista sul meglio (e sul peggio) offerto dal grande schermo negli ultimi anni: da Bright Star di Jane Campion, "mai così brava, neanche in Lezioni di piano", passando per A Single Man di Tom Ford con la sua "estetica da sciampista", fino a Baciami ancora di Muccino ("dopo Mad men, con che coraggio un regista italiano può ambientare una scena in un'agenzia pubblicitaria?")…

"The evolution of guitar is firmly secure in the hands of these kind of players… it's just a new level, the tone, the touch, the notes!" - Steve Vai

From its inception with landmark works like Edgard Varèse’s Ionization (1929-31), Amadeo Roldán’s Ritmicas (1930), or John Cage’s First Construction (In Metal) (1939), the percussion ensemble has been associated with innovations in rhythm—with driving, pulsating, and complex explorations of the domain of time.

“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.” This quote from the 1899 short novel “Heart of Darkness” by Polish writer Joseph Conrad could also be Natalia Mateo’s philosophy of life. The 31 year-old vocalist is a wanderer between the worlds - musically and in real life. Born in Poland, raised in Austria and now living in Germany, she has absorbed the most varied of impressions and cultures into her being. She draws from the Slavic ballad tradition, from American jazz and singer-songwriters ranging from Joni Mitchell to Amy Macdonald, and from contemporary pop and rock music.