Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Juanillo de Alba - Spanish Classical Guitar

This came into my possession more randomly than most. trang had made me a gift of some vinyl which she'd picked up at an op shop, one of the pieces of which appeared to be Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food. Unfortunately, however, the record itself turned out not to correspond to the sleeve, and so I'm now the owner of a record of Spanish classical guitar (circa 1973) - uncharted waters for me. Still, it's music nonetheless, and the peculiar way in which it came to me tickled my fancy, so I gave the unexpected record a spin; 'classical' in this connexion basically seems to mean 'acoustic (solo)', and it's nice enough but I don't find it particularly interesting.