Mikkel Ploug - Day In The Sun (CD)

Release Date: 09/23/22Ploug's second solo acoustic guitar record again features beautiful compositions and performances ranging across jazz, folk and classical styles.Danish guitarist/composer Mikkel Ploug's second solo acoustic guitar record (theß follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2017 Songlines release Alleviation) is one for connoisseurs of the instrument. It again features beautiful compositions and performances ranging across jazz, folk and classical styles and techniques, which he combines in different and innovative ways. This time, in addition to performing on his vintage 1944 Gibson LG-2 Banner, he debuts a newly built flamenco-classical hybrid model from Granada master luthier Manuel Bellido.Ploug is internationally known in the jazz world (three of his groups have featured saxist Mark Turner) and has recorded as a leader for Sunnyside, Fresh Sounds New Talent and Whirlwind. His co-led avant chamber-jazz group Equilibrium has three releases on Songlines. During the early