Michael Musillami

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Playscape Recordings release Pictures, a duo recording by guitarist/composer Michael Musillami and pianist/composer and co-leader Peter Madsen. This is their second duo recording, following Part Pitbull released in 2002.

In Pictures, the duo draws inspiration from Pictures at an Exhibition, an 1874 suite by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky as a memorial to his friend, Russian architect and painter Viktor Hartmann, who died in 1873 at age thirty nine. Shortly after the artist's death, Mussorgsky visited an exhibit of Hartmann's sketches, architectural and costume designs, which came from Hartmann's travels in Europe, and decided to capture the experience with musical depictions of ten paintings by Hartmann, interspersed with a recurring promenade.

PERSONNEL:

• Michael Musillami - guitar
• Peter Madsen - piano

TRACKS:

• 01. Promenade One
• 02. Cecil Taylor
• 03. Promenade Two
• 04. Robert Paris
• 05. Promenade Threev
• 06. Carla Bley
• 07. Promenade Four
• 08. John Abercrombie
• 09. Promenade Five
• 10. Thelonius Monk
• 11. Promenade Six
• 12. Joe Diorio
• 13. Promenade Seven
• 14. Dave Brubeck
• 15. Promenade Eight
• 16. Jim Hall
• 17. Promenade Nine
• 18. Randy Weston
• 19. Promenade Ten