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Rabble Without A Cause
Wednesday November 7th, 2012 with Bernard Stepien
the cultural clash of Italian guitarist Paolo Angeli and Japanese violinist and vocalist Takumi Fukushima

Guitarist Angeli and violinist Fukushima are into another kind of fusion. Fukushima is Japanese, granted, but she plays her violin like Paganini (oh, yet another Italian), that means mostly like classical music. But that would be too simple. She also wanders into American folk music and if that wasn’t enough, her Japanese built-in Kabuki burst out at unexpected moments. Angeli is Italian or more precisely Sicilian. He plays guitar but in two radically different ways that you would expect a guitar to be played. First of all he plays it by holding it vertically like a cello and secondly he mostly uses bowing rather than plucking. The result of this fusion is pleasant with enough disturbances like elements of Rock and Free Jazz to keep a commercial radio station at bay. Tonight, we will survey their Itsunomanika CD recorded in Italy.
vele spiegate
Takumi Fukushima & Paolo Angeli - Itsunomanika - Rer PAS
kaze no tabi - voyage du vent
Takumi Fukushima & Paolo Angeli - Itsunomanika - Rer PAS
l'altra faccia della medaglia
Takumi Fukushima & Paolo Angeli - Itsunomanika - Rer PAS
dialogo tra sordi/bricciole in fuga
Takumi Fukushima & Paolo Angeli - Itsunomanika - Rer PAS
sponde
Takumi Fukushima & Paolo Angeli - Itsunomanika - Rer PAS
nee dear my sister
Takumi Fukushima & Paolo Angeli - Itsunomanika - Rer PAS
perdita di tempo
Takumi Fukushima & Paolo Angeli - Itsunomanika - Rer PAS
l'ultima nave
Takumi Fukushima & Paolo Angeli - Itsunomanika - Rer PAS