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Opus One

by Simeon Flick

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Beset by aging hands and failing nails, Simeon Flick fought to finally check off a long-standing bucket list item with the release of 2020’s Scarlatti’s Greatest Hits For Classical Guitar, his self-produced debut on this challenging plucked instrument. Flick’s interpretive talents shone on those deftly arranged, performed and recorded transcriptions of well-traveled yet still somehow obscure Baroque keyboard works, and he would have been fully justified in resting on those laurels, which made the rapid conception and completion of 2022s aurally bewitching Indigenous: The Spanish Guitar that much more surprising. He then felt compelled to make a third, just as a two-book serial novelist might aspire to attain the almighty status of “trilogy author,” and to continue proving he wasn’t a fluke to his audience, let alone to himself. But there was a dearth of novel ideas. What about a Scarlatti sequel, or another Spanish album? What about transcriptions of some of the gorgeous but untranslatable 20th Century solo piano works he had recently discovered and with which he had become utterly smitten? None of these concepts captivated Flick’s creative or practical...  more

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released November 6, 2023

Composed, fingered, recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered by the Artist at Blue Chair Studio in La Mesa, CA. Cover design also by the Artist, featuring a photograph by Allison Flick first modified in Adobe Photoshop and subsequently processed through the Oilist app.

Thanks to: Allison Flick, Kathlyn Paxton, Nathaniel Flick, Steven Carlson, Hannah Bengtson, Rona Watkins, Ruth Ackerman, Matthew Stewart, Fred Marotta (The Repair Zone), Liz Abbott, Paul Homicz, David Napolitan, Ron Carmody, You.

Dedicated to the memory of Colleen Poulsen and J.D. Boucharde.

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Simeon Flick is an independent San Diego-based heritage artist who specializes in...  more

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