The Secret Guitar LP is released on 29.05.03 by Robo Records under the name of Mauro Antonio Pawlowski and is available by mail order from conspiracy records, as well as a few selected stores including Sterephonics, Antwerp. The LP is limited to 600 numbered copies of which there are 6 different coloured silk-screened covers printed on recycled LP covers. Inside there is also a introduction/mini-biography page about Mauro, written by Carlo Steegen of Stereophonics record store.
A record presentation was also held at Stereophonics on 29th May. The performance was filmed...
Consipiracy Records describe the release as:-
Tracklisting:
Side II
"Seven non-amplified semi-acoustic guitar improvisations, almost pastoral in their ethereal beauty and brimming with spontaneous energy. Never in search for lost chords you will hear the strings squeak, detailing the darker sides of life. His definite choice for independence offers ample proof that self reliance can be made to work in your favour, as this is by far his most intricately personal and spiritual work yet. Strongly focussed on excorsism 'secret Guitar' toughens to a diamond resonating pool of choking enchantments, no bedtime lullabies or sandman campfire songs but discordant exhausted emotion exploring similar mindsets, not unlike Derek Bailey or the late John Fahey. Infusing those weirdly unhinged strings with ethnic lightning excursions and tuning structures in the vein of seattle's mystic torch carriers Sun City Girls. This is painstaking underground hocus pocus from the alien giant of Belgique pop culture".
Side I :
1. At the house of lightening
2. Evening girls
3. The danced letter
4. Corsala
5. Return of the academic beast
6. Secret guitar
7. Rock 'n roll damage
Mauro will play at the Borderlines Festival, De Singel, Antwerp on the 5th of september. More information by the organisers Urbanmag and De Singel
See also reviews.