Strong Emotions on Classic Contemporary Guitar 2: Going South

Giulio Tampalini’s journey into the contemporary guitar world continues: but, this time, his compass points to the south, specifically to the South American continent, where the great variety of native rhythms blends with the cultures of Africa and Europe. A veritable atracción fatal for the six strings, the extremely rich repertoire of dances, timbres and atmospheres is explored with passion and precision by Tampalini, who traverses the sound worlds of Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, crossing both the popular repertoire (think of pieces such as Alfonsina y el mar or Adios Muchachos) and the more cultured repertoire of the Antonio Lauro, Alirio Diaz, Manuel Maria Ponce, Máximo Diego Pujol. There is no shortage of tributes by two young Italian composers of almost the same age – Giorgio Mirto and Marco Nodari – to the suggestions of the South. The second volume of Strong Emotions thus reiterates, declining in Latin American rhythms, the concept of the first album: to collect and re-propose those songs that once heard, one would like to know, then listen to again.