In Concert {2006}





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From the very first number, you can tell you're in the presence of a guitar virtuoso. Alone on the stage, the Italian guitarist Antonio Forcione coaxes an amazing range of sounds from his instrument: making the guitar sing, snap and echo; playing melodies with his left hand as well as his right; and adding percussive punctuation by striking the wooden body of the guitar.

The virtuosity continues with the arrival of the other members of the quartet. Nigerian cellist Jenny Adejayan plays the most complex pieces entirely without sheet music, while Adriano Adewale adds stimulating sounds from a battery of percussion instruments. For his feature Tatubatu, Adriano even uses a set of drainpipes cut to different lengths, which he plays by blowing down them and hitting them with flip-flops! The most exciting piece in a very exciting concert is the duet between Forcione and Adewale the latter simply playing a tambourine, albeit amplified so as to let us hear the smallest tap. The interplay between the two is amusing as well as spellbinding.

The music mingles jazz with many kinds of world music, including flamenco, African and Latin-American rhythms. Antonio has been labelled "the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar" and he certainly makes the instrument speak in many innovative ways although the instrument is amplified, so perhaps it is not truly "acoustic" but this allows him to add even more effects to the amazing number of sounds he produces naturally. Mostly he plays guitars with nylon or steel strings, but for Indian Caf he uses a fretless guitar called the oudan, with eight added sympathetic strings, designed to sound like the Middle Eastern oud.


The Quartet Features:

Antonio Forcione - nylon, steel string & fretless guitar.
Jenny Adejayan - cello
Adriano Adewale - percussion. Amongst other things, drainpipes cut to different lengths and played with flip flops.
Nathan Thompson - double bass


Tracklist:

01. Heartbeat
02. Tears Of Joy
03. Attempo
04. African Dawn
05. Tatubatu
06. Sahara Rain
07. Night Passage
08. Funky
09. Indian Cafe
10. Tarantella
11. Maurizio's Party
12. Bonus Track: Touch Wood






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