ACOUSTIC MUSIC

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BIOGRAPHIE

He was born in Milan on 1960. He began to play the Guitar at the age of 10. When he was 21, he started to play as a soloist with different group and different musical. At the age of 25 he got the degree of classical guitar. At 29 year old He started as a purist of the sound with his first album "BhaktaPriya"(BMG'89), he continued exploring free polyethnic expressions going through the sonority of "Terra" (BMG '94), and arrives at the end at "Spirali",characterized by new technologies applied to the guitar and produced in 1999 by the Italian musician Mauro Pagani (PFM). The last work of Lupi is "Shorts", a solist album by Acoustic Music Records.

The search of Lupi in the Iast years went beyond the classical rules, using new expressive forms (sequencer and guitar-synth) anaging to create an evocative atmosphere and developing to the utmost the timbrical possibilities of each instrument and percussion rhythms using the body of guitar. This peculiarity is another adjustment for the texts based on the use of the "sequencer", with which, in the real time, he can create "Loop" with the guitar which composes effective "Groove" on which he can represent his themes.

"...An 'artistic creative' experience which,
like a spiral in constant movement,
once arrived at the top and seemingly ended,
necessarily transforms it self into a new beginning,
maintaining a clear link of contact with Poetry."

DISCOGRAPHIE

SHORTS

acoustic guitar solos
Recording: 2000
Time: 41:37
Musicians
Walter Lupi: acoustic guitar

CD-TRACKS
POEM 1

· ISLAND

· SUNSHINE

· MUNAY

· AMMA

· BROKEN HANDS

· KISS

· JAZZY

· POEM 2

· SUNSET RIDE

· PASSAGE

· A WHITER SHADE OF PALE

· TOWERS

INFO
„Shorts“ ist ein akustisches Gitarren-Album von unglaublicher Klarheit und melodischer Kraft. Walter Lupi hat die Musik seiner Vorbilder längst assimiliert und zu einem persönlichen Stil verwoben, in dem Elemente von Folklore, Jazz und „West-Coast-Fingerstyle“ erkennbar sind. Bemerkenswert ist sein Einsatz von „Groove-Techniken“ wie Tapping und Percussion, die er auf dem Korpus seiner Larrivée-Gitarre ausführt. Walter Lupi integriert diese Spielweisen nahtlos und höchst musikalisch in sein poetisches Akustikgitarren-Spiel, das dadurch ungemein vielschichtig und „mehrdimensional“ wird. Wie ein schon bekannt geglaubtes Stück in der Klangwelt von Walter Lupi zu neuem Glanz kommt, zeigt seine Version von „A Whiter Shade Of Pale“ im seltenen Tuning E–A–E–F#–B–E.
„Shorts” is an acoustic guitar album of unbelievable clarity and melodic power. Walter Lupi has long assimilated the music of his role models and woven it into a personal style revealing elements of folk music, jazz and “West Coast finger style”. What is remarkable is his use of „groove techniques” such as tapping and percussion, which he performs on the body of his Larrivée guitar. Walter Lupi integrates this manner of playing seamlessly and with great musicality in his poetic acoustic guitar performance, which thereby becomes extremely multi-faceted and „multidimensional”. A good example of how what one might have thought was a well-known piece achieves new sheen in the sonorous world of Walter Lupi is his version of „A Whiter Shade Of Pale“ in the rare E–A–E–F#–B–E tuning.

PRESS REVIEWS
„...ein Spezialist für poetische Stimmungen. Sein Album ‘Shorts‘ bringt eine angehm beschwingte Mischung aus Folklore und Jazz, und ist mit makelloser Spieltechnik und einem luftigen Steelstringsound eingespielt.“ (ds, Gitarre und Bass, 3/01)
„... a specialist for poetic moods. His album ‘Shorts‘ offers a pleasant lively mix of folk and jazz and is recorded with impeccable technique and an airy steel string sound.“ (ds, Gitarre und Bass, March/01)
„Lupi ist mir seit längerem als einer der italienischen Gitarren-Impressionisten vertraut. Bei seinen ersten Alben wartete er bereits mit melodischer Klangschönheit auf, gepaart mit spieltechnischer und rhythmischer Vielfalt. Sein neues Album ist eine rundum geschlossene Arbeit mit melodischen Kleinoden.”
(Folker, 03/2001)