#4695, With Paolo Angeli

New Sounds | Jan 3, 2024

Guitarist, composer, ethnomusicologist, and instrument builder Paolo Angeli plays a custom prepared Sardinian guitar, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument that looks like a guitar crossed with a cello. Angeli’s build has been fitted cross-wise and lengthwise with additional strings: cello strings and drone strings, and has numerous other inventions attached to it, including hammers, pedals, bicycle cables, and some propellers at variable speed. Then, there’s his array of electronics and treatments...

Paolo Angeli demonstrates some of these sounds, which include percussion, organ, kora, sitar, slide guitar, cello, hammered dulcimer, fretless bass, and drone (and teases a new custom prototype in the works!) He also performs music from his latest release – a concept album about the wider Mediterranean - Rade, on his custom instrument, complete with plastic bag percussion, in-studio, for the Soundcheck Podcast. - Caryn Havlik

Program #4695, with Paolo Angeli from the Soundcheck Podcast (First aired 12/20/22)

ARTIST: Paolo Angeli
WORK: JAR'A Suite [1:11]
RECORDING: Recorded for the Soundcheck Podcast, Nov. 2021
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: A version appears on Angeli's 2021 record, Jar'a

ARTIST: Paolo Angeli
WORK: Baklawa [7:07]
RECORDING: Recorded for the Soundcheck Podcast, Oct. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: A version appears on Angeli's 2022 record, Rade

ARTIST: Paolo Angeli
WORK: Mare Lungo [12:13]
RECORDING: Recorded for the Soundcheck Podcast, Oct. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: A version appears on Angeli's 2022 record, Rade

ARTIST: Paolo Angeli
WORK: Rade [11:49]
RECORDING: Recorded for the Soundcheck Podcast, Oct. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: A version appears on Angeli's 2022 record, Rade

Watch "Baklawa":