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5.0 out of 5 stars
very cool marriage of culture and technology., March 18, 2004
This review is from: Metamorphoses: Electronic Adventures In Flamenco (Audio CD)
The concept behind this album is beautifully simple and the results are very provocative. Alfredo Lagos plays lovely flamenco guitar songs (some with two guitars overdubbed) that are then put through all kinds of electronic manipulations by Giovani Venosta and Massimo Mariani. On "Study about Rhythm", the song is sliced and diced into chunky additive rhythms, wickedly syncopated and weird. "Study about Liquidness" is a beautiful, shimmering prestissimo that becomes fractured and smothering at the end. On "Suite about Depth", Lagos takes traditional music forms and has them subsequently distorted with notes snipped and displaced. "Imp. #1 about rhythm" sounds like flamenco run through an Autechre program. "Study with Handclaps and Voice" is the best of all though, with a scintillating, ceaseless sprinkling of claps and filtered guitar manipulations with some vocals. All in all, _Metamorphoses_ is both pleasing to the ear and highly inventive. Recommended.
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