Mateusz Kowalski plays Marek Pasieczny's "The Flight of Kikuidataki" on a 2020 Francisco Muñoz Alba

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Here's Mateusz Kowalski performing his revision of "The Flight of Kikuidataki", a piece by Marek Pasieczny inspired and based on the Japanese melody "Itsuki No Komoriuta". Mateusz recorded this video on a 2020 Francisco Muñoz Alba "Homenaje" classical guitar made with spruce top and CSA rosewood back and sides. Recorded at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA.
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[@MarekPasieczny]

Thank you everyone for kind words. This is what Carlo wrote me after publishing this very piece: Carlo DOMENICONI on THE FLIGHT OF KIKUIDATAKI: "Marek Pasieczny is still very young, but already one of the most important guitarists-composers-musicians from our time. The Flight of Kikuidataki’ is beautiful! It is a piece full of sound and the guitar must be grateful to you for writing such a piece. Thank you also” Thank you to GSI for great video production and to Mateusz Kowalski for brilliant performance!

[@aidanguitarshamiwhatever]

Thank you for bringing this work of art into the world. I was deeply moved to listen to it

[@Guitarsalon]

This is a fantastic composition and a phenomenal performer! We are so happy that we had a chance to record this in our showroom. Pozdrawiamy i gratulujemy kompozycji! :)

[@MarekPasieczny]

Pleasure all mine! Dziękuję i również pozdrawiam! Mam nadzieję, że kiedyś coś razem nagramy! ​@@Guitarsalon

[@MarekPasieczny]

​@@aidanguitarshamiwhateverthank you very much, Aidan! Truly appreciate it! It means a lot!

[@Guitarsalon]

Też mamy taką nadzieję :) @MarekPasieczny

[@mirzasalihefendic8258]

This is one of the few most beautiful and most intriguing guitar pieces I've heard in nearly 50 years of my interest in classical guitar music. Absolute marvel...🙏 Anybody that can play this composition lke Mateusz did, is a virtuoso and maestro..🙌

[@tangobayus]

A significant extension of the repertoire.

[@MarekPasieczny]

thank you, truly appreciate it!

[@tomaszpolak664]

That is brilliant. Pure elegance with subdued virtuosity but reappeared where it should be. Not hitting the instrument whenever you can, as much as you can, and do all furious and ffforte sounds and plucks all the time, without thinking about music, but rather to shock the audience. The above is common today. What we experience here is a different story. Profoundly different. All about a modern guitar in one piece. This version is a newer, recomposed in some parts, in my opinion even harder then it was to play. What I personally like is the difference in dynamics between voices so clearly handled by Mateusz usually missed and not articulated so distinctively. We have superb composer and amazing performer, so the music is magically created. 🇵🇱

[@MarekPasieczny]

Tomek, jestes wielki! Przepiekne i elokwentne slowa! Jutro EX NIHILO z Mateuszem. Ach sie udalo video!!!! Dam znac!

[@ClassicalGuitarMusings]

One of the greatest living guitarist

[@ivanguban7143]

So many varieties of different techniques. Amazing.

[@nipundeshpandecomposer]

The possibilities of Classical Guitar's unexplored sounds are yet light years ahead of us. Mateusz Kowalski / Marek Pasieczny : Hołd my BEER!! Cheers!!!

[@chrisdavidson8525]

Everything Mateusz plays just hits different for me, I can't think of anyone who stops me in my tracks quite so often. Unreal skill.

[@chopsddy3]

Thanks GSI. It doesn’t get any better than this. Both guitar and artist are the absolute cream.

[@onlyguitarbr8256]

I have no words. Very beautiful and introspective.

[@alecbass4063]

This is one of my favorite pieces by Marek Pasieczny. Thank you for recording it.

[@MarekPasieczny]

Alec, you're the best! Thank you!

[@kathyhollenbach7413]

I have never heard this before and am quite impressed with your performance!! Love the way you make the bird sound real. Excellent fret work. Exciting!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@LFUFMNX]

Wow, what skills. And the piece takes advantage of every imaginable guitar sound. I'm slackjawed.

[@grzegorzklicki8983]

Uwielbiam ten utwór! wspaniałe wykonanie!

[@MarekPasieczny]

dzieki Grzesku! Zawsze wspomagasz dobrym slowem! Bardzo doceniam!

[@grzegorzklicki8983]

@@MarekPasieczny cała przyjemność po mojej stronie mistrzu Marku! pozdrawiam

[@lucasfernandeschagas8533]

Wow! That was pure fire! ❤👏👏👏 Amazing.

[@JoeThibodeau]

Mateusz channels Marek. Fantastic performance. Fantastic composition. One of my favorite composers. I listened to Marek's original performance from 12 years ago on his channel. Truly stunning musical prowess.

[@tobiasnilsson8934]

Can`t find words! This is brilliant!

[@croth8371]

Amazing ! Fantastic ! Loved it ❤ Kudos to the performer and to the composer 👏

[@rotanux]

Came here from the instagram post. This composition is incredible

[@MarekPasieczny]

big thank you!

[@arturomontilla5073]

Nice ride (across the strings). Flight, indeed! Temple de acero, Mr. Kowalski. Tempered Steel.

[@kakaysouza6406]

Muito, muito bom!!! Técnica e interpretação gigantescas!

[@musicalenchantment]

Brilliant presentation music extraordinaire, fast paced with exciting percussion! `Salutes!

[@Crytoma]

Phenomenal, good thing it is recorded.

[@julioferrari9373]

Sensational Mateusz ! Don't all is known themes...., espectacular technique, great guitar..👏👏👏🇦🇷🍷

[@florianliebtmusik]

This music and interpretation is exciting, adventerous and virtuosic. Thank you very much.

[@TimEmmerton]

Phew, there’s a lot to take in there. And that’s a good thing. 🤯

[@inexart]

Bravo, maestro

[@Joshua-ig9pt]

That was awesome

[@blahblah49000]

Wow.

[@TomoFromEarth]

Wow. Dude is a savage. Bravo!

[@eustaciogriego1912]

Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. Roy Clark used his guitar in the same manner it’s a wonderful tool if you know how to use it

[@isfet5149]

Beautiful!

[@10sassafras]

Great performance.

[@KingTabor]

Nylon Hedges

[@itamarramos5900]

O don't remember had seen lately so cleverness guitar player like this. Bravo!!! Congratulations!! WOW!!

[@brettgoodroad7747]

❤

[@vovian]

Bravo Man👍

[@guneydaglar5841]

Magnificent

[@mohamsaidou1454]

🌿bravo 👏🍃

[@vichowemusic]

Wow!

[@skoromoh_]

Good day. It's strange music but that is modern guitar code for every master guitarist. Wondered... . 27124

[@RobertoMartinez-kv5tp]

Genial Mateusz 👍✔

[@marcelotapia9649]

Parece que alguien quiere un charango

[@Firstguitar-iq4yi]

Não consegui acompanhar a lógica dele 🤯

[@elen584]

🇺🇦🤝🏻🇵🇱👍🎶💞👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@DeutschlandGuy]

I guess there is room in the world for disturbing music too... but were I GSI, I would tell him, "Please stop beating on our guitar". 😅

[@user-gw7oz4dm5w]

Где музыка?

[@isaacroche3223]

It's an espectacular guitar,....next time just play Etude no.1 by F. Sor(Segovia)!!!

[@theatremusician]

Yeah. Let's only look backwards. Never let music and art progress. Only paint pictures of flowers in vases. Never compose new music. This sort of "thinking" is anti-art.

[@payambehtash7124]

This is not music. No doubt the composer is an artist and has made a lot of great pieces but this is not music. And this post modern/progressive or whatever this noisefest is called lacks coherence and that's a big deal for me. Amazing performance though. Any tone can be brought out profoundly by him.

[@blahblah49000]

I think I understand your perspective, and I sympathize in some ways, but this certainly is music. It reminds me of Debussy's Images: it's not as much about telling a story with beginning, middle, and end as it is about painting a picture of a moment in time, of exploring the sensations in an environment. It's somewhat meditative. Postmodern/progressive? There are many problems with those styles in the art world, but, was Debussy that? Look, a Pollock is definitely a noisefest, but this piece is not that; it merely allows seldom-used aspects of the guitar to substitute for other instruments that contribute to the image being portrayed. Everything in it is intentional. You may not find some of the unusual sounds pleasing, but that doesn't mean it isn't music (just as I generally don't dig heavy guitar distortion, but there's still lots of music that uses it).

[@aidanguitarshamiwhatever]

@@blahblah49000 Exactly. This piece fits every possible definition of music. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it somehow "not music." That would be an emotional argument with no logical basis.

[@TomoFromEarth]

I think you need re-examine what the definition of music is my friend. This is definitely music and it is beautiful, as is the performance of it.

[@sarahdbk6929]

I agree with you. Maybe it’s music but not a very good composition. It’s impressive if you’re not a guitarist or if you don’t know well this instrument but there isn’t a development, a form, or something very researching to be a contemporary piece.

[@aidanguitarshamiwhatever]

@@sarahdbk6929 well, I think it’s good and many accomplished musicians would probably disagree with you . Listening to the piece as a whole it sounds beautifully constructed in my opinion. The dynamic contrast is very effective as well I think. Nobody is an absolute authority on what is “good” or “bad” in music.

[@KT-hw1nc]

❤