The DVD movie and CD soundtrack of 10 years of Nanni Angeli's photo documentation of the strange story of Paolo Angelis exotic, extended giant Sardinian guitar.
Label: Recommended Records Catalog ID: ReRPA4 Squidco Product Code: 13249
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2010 Country: Great Britain Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel Recorded and Filmed (no overdubs or loops) at the Teatro San Leonardo Bologna on May 12th 2009 by Roberto Monari.
2. Linee in Transizione (Desired Constellation) 7:03
3. Ferri 7:39
4. Ferri in Transizione (Tra un gamba e l'altra) 4:31
5. Mani 7:53
6. Ritagli di Tempo 8:55
7. Persone e Forme (Specchi d'arancia) 12:30
8. Bucato (Etterbeek) 10:06
9. Misteri (Stabat -Tibi) 10:09
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"Paolo Angelis's music, as always, is prodigious, sounding like a small band, but played by one person in real time (as the film attests). In this format, you can also see the instrument close-to - a highly rebuilt and extended giant Sardinian guitar - with many sympathetic and extra strings, motor driven hurdy gurdy wheels, whirling strings, springs and other appendages, played, like a cello, vertically, with bow, fingers, plectra and machines. However Heath Robinson it may appear, however, it is clearly, under Paulo's hands, a highly serious and extraordinarily flexible beast - that requires and has given rise to new playing techniques. The programme of compositions here navigates through highly organized additive rhythms, freer Frith-like pointillism and some seemingly impossible mini-orchestrations. The film, professionally made, follows the performance, occasionally interpolating abstract passages and processed images. A remarkable player with a unique instrument, playing a music entirely his own."-ReR