SWISS RADIO DRS
New Classical CD
"the swiss guitarist with southamerican roots Miguel Guldimann play his own music with two Indian musicians, Monte de Silencio.
A likeable and unpretentious way of playing ethno music.“

GUITARWEB
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The CD monte de silencio named after a mountain in spain contains 12 compositions of a marked meditative character.
A very pleasent music, which is not noticable because of virtuosity or originality, but because of its simplicity, the beauty of its melodies and their pulse, that captures along with the breath of nature or the wind on monte de silencio.
Stylistically we meet with a kind of World music, which moves between Indian music and Classical Guitar music. The trio compositions unfold mostly from a theme, which is presented by Guitar and Bansuri in unisono, rich improvisational developments, in which the three instruments interweave into a beautiful dialogue. The solo compositions for Guitar flow very lightly and lively and are - like the whole CD played with a beautiful sound and nuch tenderness.
In autumn three years ago, Miguel Guldimann retreated in the lonelyness of Monte De Silencio, " to give the quietness, a voice from my heart"

VISIONEN
...A very meditative and wonderful instrumental CD. To enjoy the silence....

SPUREN
...Miguel Guldimann plays pointedly clear and elegantly. The stringvirtuoso schooled in Zen leaves room for silence. A thoroughly successful independent production ...

ensuite KULTURMAGAZIN
a wunderful album … a timeless quiet piece …the sound of the album is distinguishly clear and transparent … Sujay Bobade surprises with his wunderful flute..

radioMagazin
Mountain of silence
If I was an eagle I would fly to the monte de silencio in Peru, float on the wind, let myself fall and raise myself again to the heights, calm down and enjoy the view. The Trio Miguel Guldimann (CH/PEru) and the Indians Sujay Bobade and Raghavendra Kulkarni create this picture wordlessly. This Debut cd is a must for every relaxed music enthusiast, a wonderful mix of 8-string guitar, indian bambooflute bansuri and Tablas.

YOGA AKTUELL
At long last the arrival of a CD offering music of the finest sort!   On this disc lasting just less than an hour, the music caresses your ears, soothes your auditory canals and spirits you away to a wondrous world of sound.  The pieces for solo guitar played by Miguel Guldimann are no less rich in enjoyment than the compositions for duo and trio ensemble played by Guldimann, Sujay Bobade and Raghavendara Kulkarni.  Here is a dense, homogenous musical fabric, with Bobade producing a singing tone on the bansuri or Indian bamboo flute, Kukarni on the rhythmically distinctive tabla drums, and Miguel Guldimann playing with great sensitivity and a velvety touch on the eight-string guitar.  Stylistically, the individual compositions move among multiple genres ranging from classical Indian music to world music and classical guitar music, inviting the listener to relax, dream and just be. Not a single note seems superfluous, loud or boring.  The music sways throughout in a pleasant harmony, inviting us repeatedly to listen more attentively.  The CD received its title from a mountain in Spain, which can also be seen on the CD cover, and which has a meditative atmosphere similar to the music.  Compared to all the CDs of little substance being produced precisely in the spiritual branch these days, this new arrival is truly a must for any collector, and you can immediately sense where the three musicians have derived their inspiration for the individual pieces: the place of the heart and of stillness.  We have here a reflection of what Miguel Guldimann had in mind when he retired to a hermitage near the mountain three years ago so as to “give the silence a voice from my heart,” as he says.

Doris Iding for “yoga aktuell” (Germany)
Translation: Paul Shepherd