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By This River (Guitar Version)

by Sergio Sorrentino

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By This River - written by Brian Eno, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius - Guitar version by Sergio Sorrentino

"I have always loved the purity and sheer beauty of this song. Here is my own rendition recorded with clean electric guitars and an electric bass.

I grew up in a small town crossed by a river and Eno's song takes me back to the dreamy and sweet memories of my childhood. So this version of mine wants to give sound to the eyes of little Sergio who looked at the Tanagro river from an ancient bridge and seemed to him as infinite and wonderful as the universe.

The track is dedicated to the memory of my father, Gerardo Sorrentino, who taught me the meaning of Love".
- Sergio Sorrentino

Personnel:

Sergio Sorrentino: electric guitars (solid body and hollow body guitars), reverse guitar, electric bass

Sergio Sorrentino - BIO
"A Superb Musician" (The Wire)
As a performer he promotes the classical guitar and electric guitar contemporary repertory. As a composer and improviser his music is based on sonic research and combines elements of contemporary classical music, minimalism, avant-garde, ambient, experimental. His CD Dream - American Music for Electric Guitar (Mode Records) was reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times by Seth Colter Walls as one of the "Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”. 
Philip Glass published on December 2020 Sergio Sorrentino's video performance of "Orphée's Bedroom" on his official channels for the #glassminutes series. Orange Mountain Music released "Orphée's Bedroom" Single on all digital platforms on January 2021; the Single is earning a lot of success.
Sergio plays with the great Gavin Bryars ("Sergio Sorrentino has performed many of my works for guitar, and also my ensemble pieces that include the guitar and I have the greatest admiration for his work in this respect") as a member of the Gavin Bryars Italian Ensemble and he plays live and in studio with Elliott Sharp and John King. He has worked with important composers and musicians like Alvin Curran, John Russell, Machinefabriek, David Lang, Steven Mackey, Usui Yasuhiro, Scott Fields, Tim Brady, Paul Lansky, Eric Mingus and many others. As a soloist, Sergio Sorrentino started his international concert career very early and has held solo concerts and master classes in many important festivals and venues (like Yale University, Sprague Hall in New Haven, Spectrum in New York, Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana in Casa de Las Américas, Cuba, Italian Cultural Institute of Paris, Sala Biala of the Wilanow Museum (Warsaw, Poland), International Guitar Research Conference/University of Surrey (UK), Vortex in London, Performance Room of Luxembourg, Filharmonia Gorzowska Concert Hall, ON Cologne Neue Musik Festival, In Situ Art Society in Bonn, Spectrum in Berlin, Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, AngelicA Festival of Bologna, etc.).

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released June 11, 2021
Recorded in 2020, Borgogna Museum, Vercelli, Italy
Produced by Sorrentino
Cover by Barbara Czepulonis

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Sergio Sorrentino Milan, Italy

“A Superb Musician” (The Wire). Sergio Sorrentino is a 21st Century guitarist whose music ranges from ambient to classical, from blues to experimental.
His CD Dream (Mode Records)
was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the "Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”.
He plays with great musicians like Gavin Bryars, John King, Elliott Sharp, Machinefabriek. He collaborated with Philip Glass.
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