The Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal is pleased to announce the guitarist in concert held in the city of Québec. Paolo Angeli is known for having designed, starting from the traditional instrument, a real orchestral guitar consisting of 18 strings, hybrid between baritone guitar, cello and drums, equipped with hammers, pedals, variable pitch propellers. With this singular creation the Sardinian musician elaborates, improvises and composes an unclassifiable music, suspended between free jazz, folk noise, minimal pop and post-rock.
Saturday, February 3, 2018 – 8 pm
Palais Montcalm – Salle D’Youville
995, place d’Youville Québec
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Born in Palau, Sardinia in 1970, Paolo Angeli began playing guitar at the age of 9 in a highly stimulating environment, accompanied by the vocals and guitar of his father, his first mentor. In 1989 he moved to Bologna, where he formed the Laboratorio di Musica & Immagine, a group of fourteen musicians that broke down musical barriers with its collective composition and improvisation. It quickly made a name for itself at the major European festivals devoted to musical innovation. In 1993, the artist began to rediscover his musical roots after a pivotal encounter with Giovanni Scanu, from whom he learned the forms and modulations of the Sardinian guitar, the canto a chitarra. In 1997, after collaborating with experimental musicians, he began to give solo concerts with his prepared Sardinian guitar, which impressed the likes of Pat Metheny, who saw new horizons for the guitar.