Tetraktys Electric Guitar Quartet

Artist: Paolo Sorge Album: Tetraktys Electric Guitar Quartet Label: Improvvisatore Involontario Code:

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Tetraktys Electric Guitar Quartet
Artist
Paolo Sorge
Released
13 July 2010
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Press Release

Despite its immense popularity, guitar is an instrument that has
shown limitations in some repertoires: for example, there’s no one
comparable to Debussy or Stravinsky among composers for classi-
cal guitar, and nobody among the greats has written something
really fundamental, with the notable exception of Heitor Villa-
lobos or Leo Brouwer. But it's in the jazz and pop world that guitar
has found its full ransom: in particular the electric one - widespre-
ad during the second half of Thirties - has opened unexpected
tone colours' horizons. Electric guitar merges timbre and harmo-
ny, transforms the counterpoint into energy's vectors, renders the
colour into rhythm . Four guitars, as the Tetratkys quartet, multiply
these effects in a kind of three-dimensional audio experience,
creating an environment in which lines and chords, melody frag-
ments, tonal stains, harmonic tensions, reverberate. Like an
abstract painting seen at distance, Tetraktys' universe composes
discernible sound images: while in detail, it’s composed by a
swarm of fascinating sounds-eruptions, each with its own history
and path. In this dense texture, trying to understand what is written
or improvised becomes irrelevant: music sustains itself and freely
floats before our eyes like an electric color stain
(Stefano Zenni)