Marco Cappelli guitar solo
music by Ponce, Ginastera, Henze, Kim
Cappelli/Kaplan/Merega
special guests: Hampton Fancher (writer/filmmaker, Blade Runner) and Mauro Pagani (violin, PFM – F. De Andre`)
Idiosyncratic guitarist Marco Cappelli is joined on this date by saxophonist Noah Kaplan and bassist Giacomo Merega. Inspired by painter Paul Klee, the trio improvises soundscapes that depict the coexistence of musical figures and textures. With an emphasis on altered and prepared sounds, as well as micro-intervallic structures, the trio strives for a constant projection of both idiom and abstraction with a rock touch.
They will present an Improvised music set, ending with
Boy Music
A spoken cantata by Hampton Fancher
“Nobody I hear has even shot at what these guys hit. They cut the chain of the brain from the dog of the ear; simultaneously sought, caught, and freed. This is what Fancher says about the musicians. What do they say about him? If you want to find out come to the Issue Project Room…”
Hampton Fancher
MARCO CAPPELLI
After completing many years of demanding music studies (first at Conservatorio di S. Cecilia in Rome and then in the Konzert-Klasse at the Musik Akademie in Basel with Oscar Ghiglia), guitarist MARCO CAPPELLI has lead an extraordinary artistic path, becoming familiar both with rigorous written music as well with free improvisation languages.
The diversity of Marco’s performances is due to a fascinating array of collaborations (Anthony Coleman, Michel Godard, Butch Morris, Franco Piersanti, Jim Pugliese, Enrico Rava, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Giovanni Sollima, Markus Stockhausen, Cristina Zavalloni and more) and regularly as guest in important classical and contemporary music series (Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Associazione A. Scarlatti di Napoli, Ravenna Festival, Festival Traiettorie di Parma, Cinque passi nel ‘900 al Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Guggenheim Museum in New York, Italian Academy at Columbia University New York, Salzburg Festival, Ruhr Triennale…) as well in jazz and avant garde music festivals (Saalfelden Jazz Festival – Austria, Pomigliano Jazz – Italy, Grim in Marseille – France, Barnsdall Theatre in Los Angeles, Tonic in New York, OutPut Festival in Amsterdam…) both as a soloist and in ensemble settings.
Among the founders of the acclaimed Italian contemporary music group “Ensemble Dissonanzen” , Marco Cappelli currently lives in New York, where he is involved with the contemporary and avantgarde music scene.
Marco has recorded two solos CDs for the for the Italian label TDS: Fantasia per Ensemble and Yun Mu. More recently he collaborated with the prestigious American label Mode Records, which released his third solo cd with EGP (Extreme Guitar Project: Music from Downtown New York). Mode Records also published a CD by Ensemble Dissonanzen, where Cappelli is involved in Goffredo Petrassi’s chamber Music; another cd, about Hans werner Henze’s chamber music will be released in 2007. In 2006 Marco Cappelli also published “Back to the Future” (with Andrea Centazzo e Anthony Coleman) for Ictus Records’ 30th anniversary, and signed his debut on John Zorn’s Tzadik, taking part in duo with Jim Pugliese on the CD “Pushy Blueness” by Anthony Coleman.
NOAH KAPLAN
NOAH KAPLAN grew up in Topanga Canyon, CA. He graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied improvisation, counterpoint, harmony, composition and microtonal theory with Joe Maneri. He was the 2005 recipient of the Jonathan Keith Foundation award for his work with microtones. He has recorded with the Peter Erskine Trio and recently released the light and other things (Creative Nation Music, 2008), a collaboration with bassist Giacomo Merega and guitarist David Tronzo. His playing has been described as “Formidable” (Phil DiPietro – All About Jazz) and “Meditative”, “Elegiac”, “Communicat[ing] a wild tenderness”, (Karla Cornejo – All About Jazz New York). The Noah Kaplan Quartet’s debut recording, Descendants, featuring guitarist Joe Morris will be released on HatHUT records in early 2010. Noah currently lives in New York where he maintains an active performance schedule.
GIACOMO MEREGA
GIACOMO MEREGA is an Italian bass player and composer who survived six years of Boston while studying at Berklee and the New England Conservatory (where he had in Joe Maneri, Anthony Coleman and Ran Blake his main mentors), before moving to Brooklyn in September 2007. Besides playing bass in Bryan Baker’s (guitarist with Steps Ahead) rock band, Giacomo is and has been involved in a number of creative projects with prominent musicians like David Tronzo, Dave ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski, Joe Morris, Daniel Levin, Ran Blake, Okkyung Lee, Sunny Kim, Michael Winograd, John MacLellan and The Bloody Heads among others, performing extensively in the US as well as in Europe.
‘the light and other things’ is Merega’s first cd as a leader (”In a discreet way, Merega plucks the strings of his bass with extra care. As if every note, every caress was his last” – Tom Sekowski, Gaz-Eta, Poland).