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The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Complete Suites and Other Music for Keyboard Cristian Sandrin (piano) SOMM Recordings SOMMCD0702 61:09 mins In the first complete recording of Purcell’s eight keyboard suites on the modern piano, Roma

Richard Barrett is on a mission to make you a better blues player – with full audio examples and backing tracks

Alex Bishop journeys up to Yorkshire for the inaugural String Break UK luthiers’ summit

This trio of Los Angeles musicians fuse the rhythms of Havana, Medellín and Lima with the sounds of 60s surf music – though their sound has more in common with Latin folk music than Dick Dale. We join them to talk about their debut album, fibreglass guitars and tropical psychedelia

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