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Angelo Santelli: Angelo Santelli
BySantelli proves equally adept on dobro, an instrument he uses through this recording. The brief "Dobro Awesome" reveals the lyrical mind of the artist while "July Song" pulls influences from everywhere. This is complexly arranged music beyond the typical music called rock today. Bluesjazzrock musical freedom with funk in the trunk. On the short interlude "Synthesis," Santelli forgoes the dobro for some more of the same scorched earth slide guitar he demonstrated on the opening, positioned slightly behind the opening synthesizers, playing a simple descending-ascending figure.
The center if the disc are "Nine Lives, Nine Tales (Parts I & II). This suite is a eutectoid of all the rock improvisation from the Grateful Dead through the Allman Brothers Band, Little Feat, Phish, The String Cheese Incident and Widespread Panic. While squarely out of this tradition, Santelli takes things even further, planting his spear in the ground of this music and killing all preconceptions to it. His slashing slide style will find a place beside Allman, Trucks, and Sonny Landreth and exist as an extension of the art W.C. Handy first heard at the Tutwiler, MS train station in 1904 and recounted a million times in telling the history of the blues.
Track Listing
Mr. Road Man; Dobro Awesome; July Song; Synthesis; Nine Lives, Nine Tales (Part 1); Nine Lives, Nine Tales (Part 1); Saffron; Griff’s Blues (Party on the Road); hand Clappin’ Dobro.
Personnel
Angelo Santelli: guitars, synthesizers, percussion; Ted Elred: keyboards (2, 3), guitar (3); Craig “Griff” Griffith: harmonica and vocals (3, 8); Alex Mays: vocals (1); Tim Brouhard bass (1, 4, 5, 8); Neal Conway: bass (3); Kenny Befus: drums (1, 5, 6, 8); Rick Hale: drums (2, 3, 4); Ben Godoshian: percussion (3, 5); Josh Holcomb: violin (1, 5).
Album information
Title: Angelo Santelli | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Self Produced
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