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Concert | Paolo Angeli

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The Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto and Hugh’s Room Live, are pleased to present, from Italy, guitarist, composer and ethnomusicologist Paolo Angeli in concert.

PAOLO ANGELI IN CONCERT

Thursday, October 6
DOORS | 7:00PM EDT
PERFORMANCE | 8:00PM EDT

Revival
783 College St | Toronto ON

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Whatever you want to call it, nobody else is doing it quite like this. Paolo Angeli, a Sardinian musician, manually magics beautiful, multi-layered music from his unique prepared guitar: a hybrid orchestra of an instrument with strings going in all directions, foot-pedal-controlled motorized propellers and hammers to create shimmering drones and bass-lines as he bows, strikes, plucks and strums while producing rhythmic atmospherics by treading on a plastic bag and adjusting tunings on the fly. Electronic effects are utilized but no loops. All is live. With this singular instrument, he improvises and composes unclassifiable music, suspended between the traditional music of Sardinia, jazz, baroque, post-folk and pre-everything.

PAOLO ANGELI

Born in 1970 in an extremely stimulating musical environment, Paolo Angeli grew up in Palau, a small port in northern Sardinia.  He started to play guitar when he was nine. The guitar and the voice of his father (his first mentor), the rock bands of the village, his experience at concerts in village squares, and carnival evenings all pointed him in a direction that eschewed stylistic barriers in music. In 1989, he moved to Bologna and started to play with various contemporary music ensembles, practicing collective composition and improvisation, breaking down the borders between musical genres, and playing in the main European festivals of innovative music. In 1993, he met Giovanni Scanu, a legendary Sardinian guitar player.  Scanu taught him the forms and the components of the “canto a chitarra”, old songs in the Sardinian dialects of Gallurese and Logudorese, traditionally accompanied by guitar.

From this clash between avant-garde and popular tradition came Angeli’s Sardinian-prepared guitar:  an instrument with 18 strings—a hybrid between baritone guitar, cello, and drums, replete with hammers, pedals, and variable pitch propellers. Since 1997, he has played concerts with his modified guitar all over the world at some of the most important festivals and theaters of Europe, Japan, Australia, North and South America, Russia, and Africa. He has also recorded more than 50 CDs. He has collaborated with Pat Metheny (who uses Angeli’s guitar in Orchestrion), Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Iva Bittová, Butch Morris, Ned Rothenberg, Jon Rose, Derek Gripper, Antonello Salis, Evan Parker, Takumi Fukushima, Louis Sclavis, and Paolo Fresu, among others.

Angeli has a degree in ethnomusicology and has digitalized the Archivio Mario Cervo, the most important collection of Sardinian records and traditional music. As a researcher, he has published Canto in Re, a volume of historical analysis of the “cantu a chittera”. With Nanni Angeli, he is the artistic director of Isole che parlano, an international arts festival suspended between innovation and tradition that has taken place in Palau since 1996.

Angeli currently lives between Sardinia and Barcelona, always facing the sea. His 2018–2019 world tour started with an astonishing sold-out Carnegie Hall performance.

  • Organizzato da: Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto | Hugh's Room Live