Chieko Hata - Meaningful Pop (2024)

Meaningful Pop is a collection of original works for two guitars that represents the 20th century repertoire where the popular sources merge into classical musical language. In a period of great evolution of thought, creativity, originally linked to canons of perfection and beauty is now built on the personality and sensitivity of the Artist in an expressive divergence that is unprecedented. But the 20th century was also the century in which, alongside avant-garde research, currents such as neoclassicism coexisted, a completely new language such as jazz was born and a systematic assimilation of the immense ethnic heritage of humanity was carried out. Starting from the second half of the 20th century, all these elements flowed smoothly into the creative font of composers, developing a rich, intellectually unscrupulous language of great timbral charm. A new stylistic mélange, made up of distant or closer references and citations, but which to some extent is always familiar to the listener. The research and emotional proposal of Meaningful Pop is based on this fertile ground.