Classical guitarist Robin Scherpen (live @Willem Twee 2023)

“Not being able to see my guitar neck also gave me unprecedented freedom. I had to play on intuition.” Due to an eye condition, guitarplayer @Robingitarist Scherpen wasn’t able to read his scores. An eye operation that was as daring as it was successful forced him to spend quite some time in a dark room during his recovery. On pure intuition he honed his creative urge there and took the first steps in composing. That has now resulted in the album ’For The Unseen’. There was light at the end of the tunnel. 00:00 Intro/Improv 01:26 Still 04:55 To Continue 07:02 Ardency 09:55 Ongoing Reverie 12:55 Son 15:55 Lingering Patterns 17:06 YM&W Always broadly oriented, he started arranging South American music. ’Aurally I brought orchestral parts back to solo guitar,’ That worked out very well. ‘I then started composing step by step, everything by ear and in ultimate freedom.’ At the end of that period in solitary seclusion in the dark, he began to see