| Line Up: Paolo Angeli (giant Sardinian guitar) |
| Date & Hour: Saturday, 2nd May 6.30pm |
Experimental improv guitarist Paolo Angeli weaves a spellbinding aural tapestry with his extra-ordinary 'giant' Sardinian guitar.
He filters the instruments through no less than fourteen real time outputs, creating washes of sound with a playing style that sees him both bow and pluck to achive seeminglessly endless echoes and loops - and leaving the listener marvelling that such music can be the work of a single instrument.
The 'guitar' itself is an extraordinary instrument - with a large mechanical claw stuck to the side of its body (to pluck counter melodies), piano-like hammers operated by pedals (to strike the strings), extra strings crossing the main strings at right angles with yet another set of sitar strings mounted on the body, a rope, a viola bridge - which holds yet more strings - and thirteen pickups and microphones which can separately amplify all the elements, sending them to different parts of the stereo picture.
But it is Angeli's musical creativity which is truly exceptional, and he has used it to create a number of critically acclaimed albums, the most recent of which combined original pieces with choice covers of the tunes of Fred Frith and Bjork, amongst others.
"........spellbinding, with a boldness of depth, emotion and experimentation that is the core of the best art" - Jazz Review. |
