October 25 is the day. Vince Go of VGo Recordings will be coming out to Boston and I’ll be doing my second CD, featuring some beautiful works of Barrios and Lauro. As it turns out, there are many reasons why I’m recording a repertoire that has already been done many times.
First, Formosa Wonder World, an amusement park in Taipei, Taiwan (my home in many ways) asked me to record a CD with a kick and an upbeat for broadcast (I guess they got tired of Taiwanese pop, which isn’t very good music anyways.) Second, I’ve always loved this repertoire and I’ve been listening to a lot of South American and Latin-inspired music recently (Piazzolla, Raphael Rabello, Marco Pereira, Boris Gaquere & Renato Martins, etc.) Third, and incidentally, Boston GuitarFest 2007 will be about Latin America. Fourth, Allegro Music School, where I teach, will be doing a themed faculty concert this year, based on–you guessed it! And I’m sure there are many other reasons that I haven’t thought of yet.
