MA.RI, by Paolo Angeli, Antonello Salis

MA.RI

by Paolo Angeli, Antonello Salis

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Paolo Angeli plays prepared Sardinian guitar in five duets with Antonello Salis’s piano and accordion, recorded live at various Italian venues during 2002. The guitar is large and tuned lower than a standard instrument. Its physical preparation is extensive and meticulous – attached mechanical devices, pedal-operated hammers, additional guitar and sitar stings, an extra bridge and numerous pickups. A CD-ROM track has photos of this singular instrument and also shows Pat Metheny tackling and admiring it.
The nature of these modifications means that Angeli is emphatically not bound to a typical sound or character and that suits well the exuberant, freeranging nature of the pair’s improvising. Angeli can assume the guise of a drummer, conjure up a phantom bassist, pick out folky melodies, vamp in arch jazz style, whisk up scratchy improv clusters or generate gusts of prog rock noise. He’s not a musician to be stylistically pinned down or labelled, and as long as he continues to find congenial contexts for his adaptable playing that is surely a positive thing.
Salis is extrovert, his restless energies bursting through layers of ingrained concert hall classicism, jazz accents and liaisons with popular song. Precise articulation repeatedly splinters into wild glinting runs across the keyboard. His accordion playing too touches familiar bases while staying volatile. On one track their musical allusiveness crystallises into a rendition of Ennio Morricone’s “A Fistful Of Dollars”, on the next a version of Lennon & McCartney’s “Mother Nature’s Son”. Angeli and Salis were having fun on these occasions, and it is resoundingly communicated through the music’s high-spirited roaming.
[The Wire, UK, Julian Cowley]

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released January 15, 2004

Paolo Angeli - prepared Sardinian guitar
Antonello Salis - piano, accordion

Produced by Paolo Angeli
Executive producer: Marco Valente
Recording: Bologna, February 2002, Ravaldino, March 2002, Latina, December 2002
Engineer: Stefano Carboni, Luca Viani
Cover Photo: Nanni Angeli

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Auand Bisceglie, Italy

Auand Records is an Italian independent label dedicated to genre-defying music, providing a home for artists who push the boundaries of improvised music.

Founded in 2001 by Marco Valente, it has quickly become a seal of warranty for the next big artists who shape the sound of the future, often introducing their music to an international audience. ... more