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Old 03-24-2010, 06:37 AM   #5 (permalink)
Zaqarbal
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He has a great skill to work with different instruments and styles. For example, it's surprising what he made in Étude (for The Killing Fields soundtrack) on the basis of Tárrega's Memories of the Alhambra. Same melody but... from the classical guitar to the synthesizer, and from the Alhambra to the Cambodian Killing Fields, which could be defined as the opposite each other:




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