Uwe Kropinski Solo

 

The music on this completely unknown East German album is astonishingly complex, almost like the great Christy Doran in his most reflective moods, it's all acoustic but the monotony of the instrumentation is not as distracting as I usually find in these records because of the hypnotic focus on the ideas he puts into his music. As I've mentioned so many times before it's hard to play dissonant, complex music on the guitar especially in comparison to the piano due to the stretching of the fingers involved in playing odd chords but also because the 'finger memory' of the standard chords from experience and training almost forces you to play the usual automatic, rote patterns. Of course this applies less to those trained in the classical educational sphere which this amazing artist clearly was.

A short track called April gives you an idea of how complex his playing can be:

I found some later albums from him, which, almost and sadly predictably, were not quite as inventive and interesting.