JAN 25-28 | STRINGS
Jan 26, 2024
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
Guitarist Paulo Angeli is a musical conjurer, an artist whose imaginative leaps defy gravity. A composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder who draws on his deep knowledge of traditional Sardinian music, he inhabits a timeless zone as a soil-rooted master and brash experimentalist. While suffused with Mediterranean cadences, Angeli’s original pieces encompass flamenco, jazz, Baroque, post-rock and new music. He plays a prepared Sardinian guitar of his own invention, a fantastical 18-string hybrid combining elements of guitar, cello and drums.
A feast for the eyes as well as the ears, Angeli in full flight is an astounding sight, as he bows, strikes, hammers, plucks and strums an instrument with strings going in all directions and foot-pedal-controlled motorized propellers. With sympathetic strings creating shimmering drones, he adjusts tunings on the fly to create exquisitely lapidary, orchestral music using electronic effects in real time (he eschews loopers, creating every sound in the moment).
It’s not surprising that this singular musician has improvised and collaborated with masters such as Pat Metheny, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Zeena Parkins, and Phillip Greenlief. Angeli’s music may be unclassifiable, but it takes no expertise to recognize its strange and extravagant beauty.
The exploratory, innovative Sardinian guitarist and composer performs with his 18-string invented instrument combining elements of guitar, cello and drums.
Paolo Angeli has developed a significant new direction for the guitar.
Pat Metheny
Paolo Angeli has developed a significant new direction for the guitar.
Pat Metheny
Personnel
Paolo Angeli 18-string Sardinian guitar
Angeli used his bonkers bag of tricks to update traditional Sardinian music in ways that had us all squinting and wondering, 'How did he do that?'
NPR Music
Personnel
Paolo Angeli 18-string Sardinian guitar
Angeli used his bonkers bag of tricks to update traditional Sardinian music in ways that had us all squinting and wondering, 'How did he do that?'
NPR Music
Watch & Listen
Paolo Angeli
Baklawa
Paolo Angeli
Mare Lungo
Paolo Angeli
Baklawa
Paolo Angeli
Mare Lungo
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