Indie’s iconic classical guitarist, composer and poet Giuseppe Bonaccorso consistently gifts audiences clear reasons to sit back and immerse themselves in his music. This truth resounds with atmospheric depth and intrigue, throughout the established artist’s unprecedented take on the historically renowned Ave Maria.
Featuring modest fingerstyle guitar amidst lashings of church-hall reverb, Ave Maria proceeds to counter this instrumental distance and dreamy implication, with a much more cleanly mixed, rather unaffected vocal sound – a voice rising into tremolo, along with other unexpected twists of performance, as we progress through a truly enchanting, nostalgic and cinematic six minutes of music.
Always experimental in his creative work, Giuseppe Bonaccorso exercises an approach not unlike that of an avant-garde painter – crafting images with mild intent and vast emotion, permitting the fingers and sounds to take full command of the space; without the burden of expectation or industry standard. The result is something that falls somewhere between the experience of music and that of visual art.
There’s a deeply calming aura to this reverb-soaked guitar performance, and then something softly confronting and intimate about the voice – a back and forth or call and response dynamic that’s fascinating to witness. At the same time, the mind quickly wanders, the journey easily unique to each individual listener, and all the while, these connections to the classic Ave Maria emerge as humble hints of some historic influence and inspiration.
An artist at work, unconfined by the walls of the industry, unpredictable yet also impressively well-rooted consistently throughout each new composition – Giusepppe Bonaccorso pushes the boundaries of organic artistry in music, and Ave Maria draws lasting attention to that quality.
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