new forcione dvd
Posted by: Paul Stephenson on 16 December 2006
forcione dvd
If you have not added this to your collection, you should, this terrific dvd specially recorded for Naim really captures Antonio at his best. Martin Levan did a truly great job on the sound!
If you have not added this to your collection, you should, this terrific dvd specially recorded for Naim really captures Antonio at his best. Martin Levan did a truly great job on the sound!
Posted on: 19 December 2006 by efrain almanza
Yessss, a great thing!! AFQ, Antonio Forcione Quartet.">This superb dvd features The Antonio Forcione Quartet, which includes Antonio on guitars, Jenny Adejayan playing cello, Nathan Thomson on double bass and Adriano Adewale on percussion"<. I watched the full dvd last saturday at longtone hifi, Vienna. Great muscians and a superb performance. Recommended for those of us in world music...I luv it!-). Many Thanks to Sini and Franz who allowed to be on my own... in the dvd demo room for the whole "event".
Greetings to all of you!
Paul, will that be aswell in cd only? Please.
Greetings to all of you!
Paul, will that be aswell in cd only? Please.
Posted on: 20 December 2006 by Paul Stephenson
Efrain, really pleased you enjoyed the dvd I said it was special!
Yes the cd will be available during Feb 2007.
Happy Christmas
Paul
Yes the cd will be available during Feb 2007.
Happy Christmas
Paul
Posted on: 03 January 2007 by hungryhalibut
quote:Yes the cd will be available during Feb 2007
Excellent. We halibuts cannot be doing with this newfangled AV malarkey.
Two speakers. Two speakers. Two sp........
Nigel
Posted on: 19 January 2007 by Paul Stephenson
NEW ANTONIO DATES
Palermo Jan 30
Teatro Golden Via Terrasanta, 60
(Italy)
Box Office: 091 323084
Website: www.thebrassgroup.it
Tunbridge Wells Feb 2
Trinity Theatre
Box Office: 01892 678678
www.trinitytheatre.net
(early booking recommended!)
Brighton Feb 15
Komedia
UK
Box Office: 01273 647100
www.komedia.co.uk
Canterbury Feb 17
Gulbenkian Theatre
Box Office: 0122 7769075
www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian
Derby Feb 20
Assembly Rooms
Box Office: 0133 2255800
www.assemblyrooms-derby.co.uk
Manchester Feb 21
RNCM
Royal Northern College of Music
Box Office: 0161 907 5555
Glasgow Feb 22
The Arches
Box Office: 0870 240 7528
www.thearches.co.uk
Birmingham Feb 23
Glee Club
Box Office: 0870 241 5093
www.glee.co.uk
Palermo Jan 30
Teatro Golden Via Terrasanta, 60
(Italy)
Box Office: 091 323084
Website: www.thebrassgroup.it
Tunbridge Wells Feb 2
Trinity Theatre
Box Office: 01892 678678
www.trinitytheatre.net
(early booking recommended!)
Brighton Feb 15
Komedia
UK
Box Office: 01273 647100
www.komedia.co.uk
Canterbury Feb 17
Gulbenkian Theatre
Box Office: 0122 7769075
www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian
Derby Feb 20
Assembly Rooms
Box Office: 0133 2255800
www.assemblyrooms-derby.co.uk
Manchester Feb 21
RNCM
Royal Northern College of Music
Box Office: 0161 907 5555
Glasgow Feb 22
The Arches
Box Office: 0870 240 7528
www.thearches.co.uk
Birmingham Feb 23
Glee Club
Box Office: 0870 241 5093
www.glee.co.uk
Posted on: 16 February 2007 by Simon Drake
Musicweb-international.com Review
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From the very first number, you can tell you’re in the presence of a guitar virtuoso. Alone on the stage, the Italian guitarist Antonio Forcione coaxes an amazing range of sounds from his instrument: making the guitar sing, snap and echo; playing melodies with his left hand as well as his right; and adding percussive punctuation by striking the wooden body of the guitar.
The virtuosity continues with the arrival of the other members of the quartet. Nigerian cellist Jenny Adejayan plays the most complex pieces entirely without sheet music, while Adriano Adewale adds stimulating sounds from a battery of percussion instruments. For his feature Tatubatu, Adriano even uses a set of drainpipes cut to different lengths, which he plays by blowing down them and hitting them with flip-flops! The most exciting piece in a very exciting concert is the duet between Forcione and Adewale – the latter simply playing a tambourine, albeit amplified so as to let us hear the smallest tap. The interplay between the two is amusing as well as spellbinding.
The music mingles jazz with many kinds of world music, including flamenco, African and Latin-American rhythms. Antonio has been labelled "the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar" and he certainly makes the instrument speak in many innovative ways – although the instrument is amplified, so perhaps it is not truly "acoustic" – but this allows him to add even more effects to the amazing number of sounds he produces naturally. Mostly he plays guitars with nylon or steel strings, but for Indian Café he uses a fretless guitar called the oudan, with eight added sympathetic strings, designed to sound like the Middle Eastern oud.
The DVD records a concert last June at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells, and the sound quality is excellent – although I wish the cameramen had focused on the really interesting parts instead of swooping indiscriminately from one shot to another. At one point I wanted to see what both of Forcione’s hands were doing but the camera only showed me the right hand. But the concert was obviously a happy affair – for Antonio’s pleasantly welcoming announcements and good humour, as well as the superb musicianship. A CD of the concert is also available, but this omits three of the dozen tracks on the DVD.
Recommended unreservedly.
Tony Augarde
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From the very first number, you can tell you’re in the presence of a guitar virtuoso. Alone on the stage, the Italian guitarist Antonio Forcione coaxes an amazing range of sounds from his instrument: making the guitar sing, snap and echo; playing melodies with his left hand as well as his right; and adding percussive punctuation by striking the wooden body of the guitar.
The virtuosity continues with the arrival of the other members of the quartet. Nigerian cellist Jenny Adejayan plays the most complex pieces entirely without sheet music, while Adriano Adewale adds stimulating sounds from a battery of percussion instruments. For his feature Tatubatu, Adriano even uses a set of drainpipes cut to different lengths, which he plays by blowing down them and hitting them with flip-flops! The most exciting piece in a very exciting concert is the duet between Forcione and Adewale – the latter simply playing a tambourine, albeit amplified so as to let us hear the smallest tap. The interplay between the two is amusing as well as spellbinding.
The music mingles jazz with many kinds of world music, including flamenco, African and Latin-American rhythms. Antonio has been labelled "the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar" and he certainly makes the instrument speak in many innovative ways – although the instrument is amplified, so perhaps it is not truly "acoustic" – but this allows him to add even more effects to the amazing number of sounds he produces naturally. Mostly he plays guitars with nylon or steel strings, but for Indian Café he uses a fretless guitar called the oudan, with eight added sympathetic strings, designed to sound like the Middle Eastern oud.
The DVD records a concert last June at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells, and the sound quality is excellent – although I wish the cameramen had focused on the really interesting parts instead of swooping indiscriminately from one shot to another. At one point I wanted to see what both of Forcione’s hands were doing but the camera only showed me the right hand. But the concert was obviously a happy affair – for Antonio’s pleasantly welcoming announcements and good humour, as well as the superb musicianship. A CD of the concert is also available, but this omits three of the dozen tracks on the DVD.
Recommended unreservedly.
Tony Augarde