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Ritorna Buck Curran, amico di vecchia data del Boozer, che venerdรฌ 7 novembre si esibirร in duo insieme ad Adele H per un evento unico e prezioso.Due artisti uniti nella vita e nella musica che intrecciano folk psichedelico, poesia sonora e intensitร emotiva in un dialogo profondo tra chitarra, voce e pianoforte
L'invito al viaggio รจ lanciato.
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Buck Curran, chitarrista, cantante e cantautore americano, presenta il suo nuovo album Far Driven Sun. Attivo dal 2005 con il duo psych-folk Arborea, Buck ha costruito un percorso artistico raffinato e coerente, pubblicando cinque album acclamati da testate come Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, AllMusic, Acoustic Guitar e NPR, dove ha anche suonato per un celebre Tiny Desk Concert. La sua musica unisce la tradizione del folk e del rock psichedelico degli anni โ60 e โ70 (Robbie Basho, Bert Jansch, Tim Buckley) a un tocco contemporaneo e mistico, fatto di chitarre liquide, paesaggi sonori sospesi e una voce intensa e profonda.
Adele H (Adele Pappalardo) presenta Impermanence, il suo secondo album, prodotto da Curran. Dopo lโesordio Civilization (2018), costruito su stratificazioni vocali e percussioni rituali, Adele ha scelto un approccio piรน essenziale e diretto: solo voce e pianoforte, registrati dal vivo in studio. Il risultato รจ un disco di grande forza emotiva, intimo e universale, che affronta temi come lโamore, la spiritualitร e la fragilitร della vita. Le sue canzoni โ descritte da UNCUT, The Wire e Folk Radio UK come โspiritual popโ, โsecular gospelโ e โprofondamente ispirateโ โ evocano il mondo di Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Neil Young e Tori Amos, ma con un carattere unico, femminile e contemporaneo.
"Ricco di ispirazione, Far Driven Sun รจ il disco di un artista estremamente sensibile dotato di un talento che traspare da ogni singola nota"
~Luca Salmini/Buscadero
"Tutto รจ tremendamente emozionale, anche l'approccio compositivo non parte mai dalla scrittura direttamente sulla chitarra, piuttosto da melodie e temi"
~Gino Dal Soler/Blow Up Magazine
"Si potrebbero sprecare diversi aggettivi per il nuovo, nono album di Buck Curran, ma in fondo ne basta soltanto uno: essenziale, nel senso che se da un lato contempla il suo essere interamente strumentale e minimale nellรณssatura, dallรกltron non rinuncia al suo carattere assorto e meditativo e sicuramente tra i suoi album piรน ispirati. "Buck Curran mette a punto un disco in cui spirito e materia suonano all'unisono, in cui corde e anima, esperienza e immaginazione sono in sintonia come raramente succede"
~Gino Dal Soler/Blow Up Magazine
"Buck Curran mette a punto un disco in cui spirito e materia suonano all'unisono, in cui corde e anima, esperienza e immaginazione sono in sintonia come raramente succede"
~Luca Salmini/Buscadero
Guitar tones linger and reverberate with a mystical translucence
~ Jennifer Kelly/Dusted Mag
Curranโs music invokes swarming natural forces, looking for the borderline between the real and the sublime and, maybe, the supernatural
~ Jesse Jarnow/Relix Magazine
Adele Pappalardoโs greatest asset is her voice: inimitable, malleable, dripping with passion and personality. The transition to piano-based songs on Impermanence has allowed that voice to flourish, which in turn has opened up new and intensely personal ways of writing and presenting songs. The resulting album transcends its varied influences and becomes a wonderful and, at times, cathartic work of art, brimming with confidence and bursting with important questions about womanhood, metaphysics and music.
- Thomas Blake/Folk Radio UK
Adele Hโs 2018 debut, Civilization, was largely a cappella, the Italian singerโs voice looped and massed and harmonized into swelling crescendos, with only a little percussion for company. This time around, she adds some shadowy, minor key piano to her arsenal. The piano adds rhythm and solidity to songs, but it is still the voice that takes precedence. It floats and loops and flutters, letting wordless โooh-ooh-oohsโ vault across the scale and blowing workmanlike words like glass into fantastic shapes. These works are moody and introspective. You feel almost as if youโre eavesdropping on some private reverie. Adele H muses on the personalโfamily, children, female empowermentโand explores the shape and possibility within each melodic phrase. She might be thinking it through as the tape rolls. The music comes out fresh and unstudied and lovely.
- Jennifer Kelly/Dusted
Where Adele H's 2017 album Civilization was built from vocal loops and percussive backing, 'Impermanence' is made up of nine songs for piano and largely unadorned voice. When the title track runs counter to this, layering her vocals, it mainly serves to demonstrate that it's not especially needed. On 'Women's Power' the playing is minimalist, the vocal style melismatic, 'April' is more cascading, with Pappalardo approximating the sort of blowsy vulnerability endemic to 2000s R&B. Later, she stretches for octaves and drops to an almost-mumblewith the รฉlan of a Sade or Nina Simone. 'Bubble of Gold' is maybe the song where the various strands of Impermanence coalesce most successfully, but 'Lucia'- a quasi-blues number with barely-there piano - sounds legitimately, emotionally crushed, and is the album's high point in that respect.
Noel Gardner/The Wire Magazine
Produced by the Italy-based American songwriter Buck Curran, 'Impermanence' features Curran's Italian wife, Adele, on piano and vocals, recorded live in the studio with minimal overdubs and a lot of reverb. The couple were inspired by early-'70s songwriting classics - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Nina Simone - and create a suitably haunting atmosphere through Adele's strong, echoey chords and powerful voice. It's secular gospel of the finest kind, most notably on the rich title track and songs like 'Bubble of Gold' and 'Rise and Fall'. Curran has recorded his own, very different, album of experimental synth soundscapes, The Long Distance, which is available through Eiderdown Records.
8/10 Peter Watts/UNCUT Magazine (January 2024)
MEDIA
https://linktr.ee/BuckCurran
Bandcamp https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com
NPR Tiny Desk
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/01/848334544/buck-curran-tiny-desk-home-concert
Deep in the Lovin' Arms https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF5vSAqI7RA/?igsh=MXFobWRpemRndDRlYw==
Ghost on the Hill
Winter Solstice 1 (for Steffen Basho)
Acoustic Guitar Magazine https://acousticguitar.com/review-buck-currans-far-driven-sun/
Ondarock https://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2025-buckcurran-fardrivensun.htm
Adele H Live in NYC
Impermanence
Women's Power
Primordial Sound
Dogmas
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