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PUI4: A Pearl In Dirty Hands
by Neri Pollastri
Più volte negli ultimi Nicola Guazzaloca ha lavorato in Portogallo, sia esibendosi con compagni italiani (come nel caso del duo con Edoardo Marraffa, documentato in Em Portugal!), sia collaborando con artisti locali, come in questo A Pearl In Dirty Hands dei PUI4, quartetto che lo vede a fianco dei portoghesi Joao Pedro Viegas al clarinetto basso, Carlos Alves “Zingaro" al violino e dell'uruguayano Alvaro Rosso al contrabbasso. Formazione piuttosto atipica, dunque, priva di batteria, con due archi e ...
Continue ReadingCarlos Alves "Zingaro": Live At Total Meeting
by John Sharpe
The cover to Live At Total Meeting depicts a maze, and that's a good metaphor for free improvised music. No-one knows where they are going or how they will get there. Even whether they have arrived or not is open to dispute. How the participants achieve resolution (of a sort)--negotiated, as it often is, without verbalization--is part of the enduring fascination of such sessions. For sure, the risks are less when veteran improvisers like the Portuguese violinist Carlos Alves “Zingaro" ...
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