Eraldo Bernocchi - Invisible Strings (2016) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke
- Title: Invisible Strings
- Year Of Release: 2016
- Label: RareNoiseRecords
- Genre: World, Ethnic, Folk, Electronic
- Quality: FLAC (tracks) - 24/96000 Hz
- Total Time: 58:44 min
- Total Size: 1.04 GB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Over the last 60 years, East Meets West recordings have become somewhat commonplace in creative music. While John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, and Ahmed Abdul-Malik all experimented with Eastern sounds in the creation of jazz during the 1950s, the Joe Harriott/John Mayer Indo-Jazz Suite in 1966 and Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar's first effort at melding formal classical tradition and improvisation in 1967 became landmarks. With Invisible Strings, guitarists Eraldo Bernocchi and Prakash Sontakke add a remarkable entry to a long list. Bernocchi is virtually unclassifiable as a musician, composer, and producer. Some of his working partnerships include exercises with Mick Harris, Bill Laswell, Harold Budd, Toshinori Kondo, Manabu Hiramoto, Balazs Pandi, Jamie Saft, and Obake. Sontakke has appeared on albums by Narada Michael Walden, Food (Iain Ballamy and Thomas Stronen) and Raghu Dixit.
Bernocchi's lap steel guitar playing is the prime melodic force on these nine pieces and reflects the influences of Carnatic music, Bollywood, spaghetti western soundtracks, and the melodic improvisation tradition. Bernocchi plays baritone and electric guitars and electronics. He places his abundant abilities in service to Sontakke's labyrinthine harmonic creations. Ambient music informs each of these tracks, but the emphasis of percussion and haunted lyricism adds quiet drama that creates depth and heft, not merely ethereality. Pronounced plodding beats, strummed chords, and interplay between baritone and steel guitars are hallmarks in the foreboding "The Last Emperor Walked Alone." "From Star to Star," with its wordless choral vocal samples in the intro and syncopated layers of dubby rhythmic pulses, frames an active conversation between the guitarists in subtle, sweet yet poignant melodies that possess a song-like architecture. "Bangalor Electric" offers pronounced electronic snare beats and breaks atop hypnotic electric fingerpicked guitar vamps as Sontakke punctuates and paints them. The use of digital delay, drum and bass beats, and baritone guitar basslines on "Purple Yello" offers an elegant freneticism for the lap steel; Sontakke decorates sparsely but effectively. Taken as a whole, it offers the sound of motion looking past itself. Its sonic landscape circles wider with each pass until it swallows everything in its path to become a solitary, nearly exultant voice. The imagination at work on Invisible Strings is revelatory. These two men use only what its necessary to communicate and create musical "stories" that resonate far beyond each track's prescribed length. Each selection maintains a distinct identity that contributes to the seamless flow of the whole. The music balances cinematic qualities while remaining subjectively intimate. This 21st century addition in the East Meets West canon acts not only as a shining example of what is possible when two open-minded talents from different cultures enter into creative dialogue, but as a complete realization of said encounter's potential.
Tracklist:
5:01 | 01. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - The Last Emperor Walked Alone
5:42 | 02. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Will You Stay
5:47 | 03. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - From Star to Star
5:48 | 04. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - The Invisible Ferry
4:39 | 05. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Sublime Skies
6:09 | 06. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Bangalor Electric
5:07 | 07. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Purple Yellow
5:57 | 08. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Walking Backwards Again
4:51 | 09. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - The Unsaid
5:27 | 10. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Dancing with the Shadows in the Dark (Bonus 1)
4:16 | 11. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Breathe Again (Bonus 2)
Bernocchi's lap steel guitar playing is the prime melodic force on these nine pieces and reflects the influences of Carnatic music, Bollywood, spaghetti western soundtracks, and the melodic improvisation tradition. Bernocchi plays baritone and electric guitars and electronics. He places his abundant abilities in service to Sontakke's labyrinthine harmonic creations. Ambient music informs each of these tracks, but the emphasis of percussion and haunted lyricism adds quiet drama that creates depth and heft, not merely ethereality. Pronounced plodding beats, strummed chords, and interplay between baritone and steel guitars are hallmarks in the foreboding "The Last Emperor Walked Alone." "From Star to Star," with its wordless choral vocal samples in the intro and syncopated layers of dubby rhythmic pulses, frames an active conversation between the guitarists in subtle, sweet yet poignant melodies that possess a song-like architecture. "Bangalor Electric" offers pronounced electronic snare beats and breaks atop hypnotic electric fingerpicked guitar vamps as Sontakke punctuates and paints them. The use of digital delay, drum and bass beats, and baritone guitar basslines on "Purple Yello" offers an elegant freneticism for the lap steel; Sontakke decorates sparsely but effectively. Taken as a whole, it offers the sound of motion looking past itself. Its sonic landscape circles wider with each pass until it swallows everything in its path to become a solitary, nearly exultant voice. The imagination at work on Invisible Strings is revelatory. These two men use only what its necessary to communicate and create musical "stories" that resonate far beyond each track's prescribed length. Each selection maintains a distinct identity that contributes to the seamless flow of the whole. The music balances cinematic qualities while remaining subjectively intimate. This 21st century addition in the East Meets West canon acts not only as a shining example of what is possible when two open-minded talents from different cultures enter into creative dialogue, but as a complete realization of said encounter's potential.
Tracklist:
5:01 | 01. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - The Last Emperor Walked Alone
5:42 | 02. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Will You Stay
5:47 | 03. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - From Star to Star
5:48 | 04. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - The Invisible Ferry
4:39 | 05. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Sublime Skies
6:09 | 06. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Bangalor Electric
5:07 | 07. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Purple Yellow
5:57 | 08. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Walking Backwards Again
4:51 | 09. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - The Unsaid
5:27 | 10. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Dancing with the Shadows in the Dark (Bonus 1)
4:16 | 11. Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke - Breathe Again (Bonus 2)
Year 2016 | Jazz | World | Indian / भारतीय संगीत | Electronic | HD & Vinyl
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