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Yugen: Death by Water
by Claudio Bonomi
Gli Yugen proseguono ostinatamente il loro viaggio quasi solitario nei meandri di una musica concettuale, colta e imparentata con Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok, Romitelli, Cage, Ligeti, Zappa, Univers Zero, Henry Cow, King Crimson e altri. Un viaggio a zig zag segnato da fughe, variazioni, accelerazioni, conflagrazioni, divagazioni, pause, tempi frammentati e poi ricomposti, e, in sintesi, da una ricchezza di dimensioni e chiavi d'accesso, anche a livello letterario, che fanno di ogni lavoro del collettivo milanese guidato dal chitarrista-compositore Francesco Zago ...
Continue ReadingYugen: Uovo Fatali: Yugen Plays Leddi
by John Kelman
While the concept of a new kind of classical music--liberally cross-pollinating beyond its furthest reaches--has been evolving since the 1970s with artists ranging from Univers Zero to Frank Zappa, there are those sadly overlooked in a new chamber music as likely to mix electric keyboards with violins as it is mandolin and drums with clarinets and grand piano. Multi-instrumentalist Tommaso Leddi was a founding member of Italy's Stormy Six, one of the seminal Rock in Opposition groups alongside Univers Zero, ...
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