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MARK MCGUIRE - Living With Yourself

Name: MARK MCGUIRE – Living With Yourself
Item: Living With Yourself
Rating: 5
Author: Michele Saran

2010 (Editions mego)

avant-garde, instrumental

by Michele Saran

Alongside “Tidings/Amethyst Waves” and “Off In The Distance”, 2010 for Mark McGuire, already guitarist of Emeralds, is rounded out by “Living With Yourself”, a collection of pièces woven from electric and acoustic guitar tapestries and “acousmatic” elements such as field recordings (best showcased on “The Vast Structure Of Recollection”), shoegaze backdrops, watery fingerpicking loops à la Dustin Wong (“Brain Storm”, “Two Different People”), right up to tapping – without much originality – into the worlds of John Fahey and Mogwai (“Brothers”). A kind of new age for the neo-emocore era, useful above all for the composer himself. Samples recorded between '91 and '98.

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17/01/2011

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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Michele Saran, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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