Paolo Angeli

Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 filed in art, music

Last week I had the pleasure of playing with Paolo Angeli again. He’s a fantastic musician to play with, incredibly responsive. We recorded a piece which will be released some time later in the year. I’ll post something up here once it’s available.

For the recording session I played the drums with him Paolo and David de la Haye (the other half of Eyes). I also played live with him and Adam Parkinson on Wednesday evening. Adam and I were doing some live sampling and processing of his guitar. I was slightly worried that our presence was going to be unnecessary, as the preparations he’s added to his guitar over the year give him access to such a wide range of sounds that I wasn’t sure what we could really add to it. There were some difficult moments in the set, which seemed to fall into three parts, but in the end things worked out nicely. Live coding isn’t the best approach to improvised music when you’re playing with a musician who has such immediate access to his sound source, but that’s what I’ve been performing with recently so I decided to stick with it. In the end I decided I could have done with some kind of interface, which I’m now working on. What I believe to best bits are compiled in a mix of the gig I’ve just finished. It’s available here: angMix.mp3 (22.7MB)
There are a few photos from the gig available here.