SECRET PLANET // PAOLO ANGELI (SARDINIA) @ MANNY'S STATE COLLEGE W/ SUPPORT FROM RICHARD SLEIGH

Name: SECRET PLANET // PAOLO ANGELI (SARDINIA) @ MANNY'S STATE COLLEGE W/ SUPPORT FROM RICHARD SLEIGH
Start: 2025-03-10T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-10T21:30:00-04:00
Location: 101 Hiester St, State College, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 16801

Schedule

Mon Mar 10 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

101 Hiester St, State College, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 16801 | State College, PA

SECRET PLANET// PAOLO ANGELI (SARDINIA)
MARCH 10
MANNY’S
101 HIESTER STREET
DOORS AT 5:00PM
SUPPORT FROM RICHARD SLEIGH 6:00PM
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
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Guitarist Paulo Angeli is a musical conjurer, an artist whose imaginative leaps defy gravity. A composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder who draws on his deep knowledge of traditional Sardinian music, he inhabits a timeless zone as a soil-rooted master and brash experimentalist. While suffused with Mediterranean cadences, Angeli’s original pieces encompass flamenco, jazz, Baroque, post-rock and new music. He plays a prepared Sardinian guitar of his own invention, a fantastical 18-string hybrid combining elements of guitar, cello and drums.
A feast for the eyes as well as the ears, Angeli in full flight is an astounding sight, as he bows, strikes, hammers, plucks and strums an instrument with strings going in all directions and foot-pedal-controlled motorized propellers. With sympathetic strings creating shimmering drones, he adjusts tunings on the fly to create exquisitely lapidary, orchestral music using electronic effects in real time (he eschews loopers, creating every sound in the moment).
It’s not surprising that this singular musician has improvised and collaborated with masters such as Pat Metheny, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Zeena Parkins, and Phillip Greenlief. Angeli’s music may be unclassifiable, but it takes no expertise to recognize its strange and extravagant beauty.