Rafael Rabello in 3 (Tributo a Garoto, Sete Cordas, and interpreta Radames Gnattali)

Some information here discogged:

Brazilian guitarist (7 strings guitar), arranger and composer (1962 - 1995). Brother of singer Amélia Rabello and cavaquinho player Luciana Rabello. He started his professional career in 1976 as guitarist with "Os Carioquinhas", with his sister Luciana and Paulo Alves. Later he changed from 6-strings guitar to 7-strings, influenced by Dino 7 Cordas,

In 1978 the band split-up and in 1979 he formed Camerata Carioca, with members from Os Carioquinhas plus Luís Otávio Braga on guitar.

He also started to work as session man, playing in more than 400 recordings. During the 1980s and 1990s he was considered one of the best acoustic guitar players in the world and played with many famous artists, such as Tom Jobim, Ney Matogrosso, Paulo Moura and Paco de Lucia.

The style is almost excruciatingly perfected and professional with an amazingly gentle touch and impressive exactitude. We have a mixture as you might expect of more tropical sounds with chamber classical guitar playing. The music reminds me a lot of the Brazilian guitarist I raved about earlier called Geraissati posted back there.

From the 1982 Tributo album, Enigmatico is just perfectly played:

From Interpreta in 1987, Braziliana 13:

In short some really lovely music here to discover.

Jerzy Gorka Artkiestra, 2018, limited time only

 

He was the drummer in the Golem band from the last post. Amazingly his album is almost as good as the other one. It does have a discogs page, this time, here.

Consider the opener:

Subsequently on the title track, note the opening amped up tritone-playing string mellotron or imitation thereof (?) like Watcher of the Skies, leading into a nice doomy synth riff that explores more interesting dissonance before finishing off with some classic KC style (Larks Tongue) guitar arpeggios:

Thanks to everyone who helped, finding this on youtube, downloading, etc. 

What a joy to find this one too. I recommend folks purchase the cd!

A wonderful Xmas present, 1997 Golem

 

Will prog wonders never cease? 

Unfortunately due to the commonness of the word Golem it's almost impossible to search for information, and I draw a blank on discogs although I'm pretty sure it must be in there somewhere.

Right from the start you'll fall off your chair here.  It starts out like this with a track translated as Nasty Guy, appropriately enough:

I love the fake (digital) string keyboards, which reminds of so much later symphonic fusion like Russian Horizont's Summer in Town, so many Germanic bands of course, but the layering of a thick electric guitar riff with dissonances on top is just like heaven for me. 

Bez odjazdu [Without Departure] features all the hallmarks of progressive music with arpeggiated riffs full of dissonance, abrupt figures and melodies, changes in keys and rhythm, you get the point:

From a commenter (many thanks):

GOLEM is an interesting but little known group from Andrychów (Poland), playing progressive rock - one of the oldest and overall best bands of the 1980s in Poland.

Przemyslaw Rams - guitar

Piotr Rupik - keyboards

Wlodzimierz Marczak - bass

Jerzy Gorka - drums

Guitar Worshop in Rio, 1991

 

Here in Rio as expected we have the light tropical salsa etc. styles of music and very little of the fusion that excites me so much. On the other hand, compositions are very strong here and there. The amazing Ulisses Rocha with his Yasei no Kaze:

I don't normally like that rhythm because it's so cliched from the Brazilian jazz I got tired of way back when in a past lifetime, but here the composition is very good and dare I say it quite catchy.

I'll get back to this artist a bit later.

Guitar Workshop in Toyko, 1989

Back to Tokyo here with information to be found here. Overall, not the most impressive released from the set (or rather the franchise as they say in Hollywood stupidly) but of note the last track, Musician (not an easy life) is a cover version, beautifully done I might add, from the 1976 Silver one-off LP (posted here this past spring), which is a shock that it would find its way here with a spectacular orchestral arrangement and performed by a Japanese fusion guitarist (namely, this guy, Sahashi):

I love the way they added so many ideas to what is really a gorgeous song.