Metamorphoses: Electronic Adventures In Flamenco

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What starts off as a lovely, intimate flamenco guitar improvisation in the hands of Alfredo Lagos becomes grist for the sonic manipulations and digital deconstructions of Giovanni Venosta. A famed sonic plunderer who regularly runs disparate musical ingredients together into collages of bracing intensity, Venosta stays his course here, getting assistance from Massimo Mariani and Marco Vecchi. His treatments of Lagos range from a study of the flamenco rhythms that uses a reversed and clipped version of Lagos's improvisation to speedily recreate how the piece moves. It sounds at once like a set of stunted breakbeats and an aural abstraction of momentous proportions. And then Venosta takes on the timbre of the guitar, toying mightily with it, yanking chimes and echoes and organ tones from it. At times the treatments are oceanic, building and bursting without ceasing. But then they recede to quietude and tenderness, even if what's tender gets phase-shifted into a musical dizzy spell. This is Venosta and company at their best, making a sonic spool that's hard to fully grasp but easy to fully embrace. --Andrew Bartlett

Metamorphoses: Electronic Adventures In Flamenco,Alfredo Lagos,Alfredo Lagos,Massimo Mariani,Giovanni Venosta,Mariani,Recommended Records,New Age,Pop,Rock

Average customer rating: very cool marriage of culture and technology.

Metamorphoses: Electronic Adventures In Flamenco Alfredo Lagos , Massimo Mariani , Giovanni Venosta , and Mariani Manufacturer: Recommended Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000JPJV Release Date: 1999-09-15

Tracks:

1. Night Improvisation
2. Study About Rhythm
3. Study About Liquidness
4. Improvisation #6 - About Resistance
5. Suite About Depth: Sequiriyas/Alegrias/Fandangos/Solea/Bulerias
6. Improvisation #4 For Two Guitars - About Liquidness
7. About Acceleration
8. Improvisation #7 For Two Guitars-About Liquidness
9. Improvisation #1 About Rhythm
10. Study About Distortion
11. Study With Handclaps & Voice

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What starts off as a lovely, intimate flamenco guitar improvisation in the hands of Alfredo Lagos becomes grist for the sonic manipulations and digital deconstructions of Giovanni Venosta. A famed sonic plunderer who regularly runs disparate musical ingredients together into collages of bracing intensity, Venosta stays his course here, getting assistance from Massimo Mariani and Marco Vecchi. His treatments of Lagos range from a study of the flamenco rhythms that uses a reversed and clipped version of Lagos's improvisation to speedily recreate how the piece moves. It sounds at once like a set of stunted breakbeats and an aural abstraction of momentous proportions. And then Venosta takes on the timbre of the guitar, toying mightily with it, yanking chimes and echoes and organ tones from it. At times the treatments are oceanic, building and bursting without ceasing. But then they recede to quietude and tenderness, even if what's tender gets phase-shifted into a musical dizzy spell. This is Venosta and company at their best, making a sonic spool that's hard to fully grasp but easy to fully embrace. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

very cool marriage of culture and technology........2004-03-19

The concept behind this album is beautifully simple and the results are very provocative. Alfredo Lagos plays lovely flamenco guitar songs (some with two guitars overdubbed) that are then put through all kinds of electronic manipulations by Giovani Venosta and Massimo Mariani. On "Study about Rhythm", the song is sliced and diced into chunky additive rhythms, wickedly syncopated and weird. "Study about Liquidness" is a beautiful, shimmering prestissimo that becomes fractured and smothering at the end. On "Suite about Depth", Lagos takes traditional music forms and has them subsequently distorted with notes snipped and displaced. "Imp. #1 about rhythm" sounds like flamenco run through an Autechre program. "Study with Handclaps and Voice" is the best of all though, with a scintillating, ceaseless sprinkling of claps and filtered guitar manipulations with some vocals. All in all, _Metamorphoses_ is both pleasing to the ear and highly inventive. Recommended.

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