Live @ LOW END | Paolo Angeli

Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 at 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

724 S 12th St, Omaha, NE, United States, Nebraska 68102 | Omaha

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Publisher/HostBemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Live @ LOW END | Paolo Angeli
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The guitarist, composer, ethnomusicologist, and instrument builder Paolo Angeli is associated with traditional Sardinian music. Whatever you want to call it, nobody else is doing it quite like this. Paolo Angeli, the Sardinian sorcerer, 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 motorised 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. With this singular instrument he improvises and composes unclassifiable music, suspended between traditional music of Sardinia, free jazz, flamenco, arabic suggestions, post-folk and pre-everything else, and came back in Sardinia with his voice in to the furrows of tradition. Paolo Angeli strums, bows, and hammers the instrument, and adds traditional Sardinian vocalizing, in a stunning performance of music from his latest albums NÍJAR, RADE, JAR’A, and 22.22 Free Radiohead. This one-person and one-instrument concert is a rarity.

He has collaborated with Pat Metheny (he uses Angeli's guitar in Orchestrion), Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Iva Bittova, Butch Morris, Ned Rothemberg, Jon Rose, Antonello Salis, Evan Parker, Takumi Fukushima, Louis Sclavis, Paolo Fresu, etc.

Admission is free; ticket reservations are encouraged.
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