Isato Nakagawa - Tree Circle

 

All fans of the Japanese guitar wizard Isato Nakagawa now have some new food for their ears!

Once again, this “hunter of fine sound” has succeeded in enchanting his listeners with his cunning sound spaces and in bathing them in warmth and feel-good. Isato Nakagawa lures perfect melodic phrases of extreme clarity and purity from his Lakewood steelstring. The simple structures of his arrangements are endowed with majestic depth, thanks to the quality of the compositions and his impeccable execution. Folkloristic melodies, chords of great associative powers, driving bass figures, and in the midst of it all radiant overtones and percussive tappings ... Nakagawa has full command of his instrument, and he puts this ability at the service of music.

The value he places on each note is unique and lets us take in the weightlessness of his music with bated breath.