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Genre: Modern Creative/Folk/Free
GAB's Rating: ★★★★☆
Canto a tenore, a traditional Sardinian folk music can take a bit of
getting used to: it's like a polyphonic throat singing barbershop
quartet. Sometimes the songs are as old as the island's hills, other
times the songs are spontaneous comments on what's happening right here
and now.
This is the music that Paolo Angeli grew up with, and at first blush
it would not seem to intersect with modern jazz. But Angeli is a
musician who is not averse to pushing down barriers between genres and
styles. Here is a musician, who when the normal six stringed guitar
proved inadequate for his ideas, built one with 18 strings (six normal,
eight transverse, and four suspended) incorporating hammers, pedals,
motors and pick ups. Rob Burke (coordinator of jazz and popular music at
Monash University) initiated and led a project to combine Angeli with
three Australian jazz musicians and an Italian rhythm section, all of
whom share a jazz sensibility and an openness to ideas and a passion for
creativity, put them in a studio and press the record button.
Recorded in December 2015 in the small but beautiful Tuscan town of
Prato, the group used traditional Sardinian tunes as a base to
experiment, improvise and collaboratively create new music that shimmers
into unexpected and innovative directions. Some of the pieces are
short, simple fragments of ideas, while others are complex and developed
exploration of what's possible, and all of it is unified by a sense of
healing, a ritualistic, almost liturgical elevation of the soul, the
music of a new generation of (pardon the pun) angels. Andrys Onsman
1. Introitus 03:03
2. Stabat Mater 05:22
3. Northern Light 05:30
4. Tartini's Dinner 01:01
5. Anton 01:08
6. Industrial Rain 02:57
7. Absinthe 04:18
8. La Corsicana 05:46
9. Traffic in the Abey 00:31
10.Mattutino 02:04
11.Market 03:46
12.Mind the Gap 00:12
13.Stellar 07:02
14.Why Don't You 00:22
15.Vespro 00:49
16.Highlander 02:01
17.J 00:22
18.Silver Lining 04:50
19.Revenge 02:01
20.Jellyfish Rhumba 06:46
21.Come una Preghiera 02:30
2. Stabat Mater 05:22
3. Northern Light 05:30
4. Tartini's Dinner 01:01
5. Anton 01:08
6. Industrial Rain 02:57
7. Absinthe 04:18
8. La Corsicana 05:46
9. Traffic in the Abey 00:31
10.Mattutino 02:04
11.Market 03:46
12.Mind the Gap 00:12
13.Stellar 07:02
14.Why Don't You 00:22
15.Vespro 00:49
16.Highlander 02:01
17.J 00:22
18.Silver Lining 04:50
19.Revenge 02:01
20.Jellyfish Rhumba 06:46
21.Come una Preghiera 02:30
Paolo Angeli: Prepared Sardinian Guitar and 'gadgets'
Robert Burke: tenor sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet
Mirko Guerrini: tenor sax, soprano sax, baritone sax
Jordan Murray: trombone
Stephen Magnusson: electric guitar
Stefano Tamborrino: drumset
Robert Burke: tenor sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet
Mirko Guerrini: tenor sax, soprano sax, baritone sax
Jordan Murray: trombone
Stephen Magnusson: electric guitar
Stefano Tamborrino: drumset
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