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"Fabricio and I met when he visited Los Angeles on the first Worldwide Guitar Connections tour, and while we were talking about his travels he mentioned that he'd kept a recorder with him and captured the sounds of the various places he'd visited, and that he wanted to commission a piece to tie all of the recordings together. We said go, and he sent me his recordings the next day. Instead of accompanying the recordings, I'd write a musical structure and narrative on the guitar, and use the recordings, with some minimal manipulations, to
accompany it. The recordings used are from quite a few locations all over the world. I hope that, by combining them in the way I did, their geographic significance disappears and we hear them as being all part of the same place.” (Nick Norton)

Norton titled the resulting work Connection, a name that encapsulates its conceptual core: to link
distant countries and cultures through field recordings from many locations around the globe, mediated by the guitar.

* this item can be downloaded as a .zip file, which contains the .pdf score and the .wav backing track ready for performances.