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Marco Cappelli
Extreme Guitar Project
Album US 2006 on Mode label
Jazz and Classical (Post-Modern, Free Improvisation, Avant-garde Jazz)
During May and June 2002, Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli spent time in New York City. While there, Cappelli became involved with the NYC avant-garde scene - internationally known as Downtown Music - in which composers / improvisers coming from avant-garde jazz, experimental rock, as well as from academic music, created a common musical language. These experiences and influences inspired Cappelli to a new idea and concept: to make a "musical photograph" of the Downtown musical scene through the commission of guitar pieces. And so, the concept of "extreme guitar" was born. Inspired by both the unusual possibilities of Cappelli's guitar playing as well as the proposal to use a mixture of writing techniques (from rigorous written structures to free improvisation), 10 leading Downtown composers wrote for him. These works receive their first recordings here. For the Extreme Guitar Project, Cappelli uses an amplified classical guitar modified with the addition of 8 sympathetic strings, which enable the guitar to control MIDI devices.
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| Elliott Sharp producer |
Album Tracks 
| No | |
Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | And So I Went To Pittsburgh | Marco Cappelli | Marc Ribot | 3:01 |
| 2 | | Bird Chant | Marco Cappelli | Ikue Mori | 6:21 |
| 3 | | Amygdala | Marco Cappelli | Elliott Sharp | 11:42 |
| 4 | | The Buzzing In My Head | Marco Cappelli | Anthony Coleman | 10:12 |
| 5 | | A Bright Moon Makes A Little Daytime: Hammertoes | Marco Cappelli | Nick Didkovsky | 3:03 |
| 6 | | A Bright Moon Makes A Little Daytime: Poker Face Alters Conversation | Marco Cappelli | Nick Didkovsky | 1:51 |
| 7 | | A Bright Moon Makes A Little Daytime: The Ass's Is Demise | Marco Cappelli | Nick Didkovsky | 1:44 |
| 8 | | Pi - Anode | Marco Cappelli | Otomo Yoshihide | 5:57 |
| 9 | | Marked By A Hat | Marco Cappelli | Annie Gosfield | 7:54 |
| 10 | | Uboingee Etude #1 | Marco Cappelli | Mark Stewart | 5:22 |
| 11 | | Iron Blue | Marco Cappelli | Erik Friedlander | 7:40 |
| 12 | Terra (From "Metta Meditations") | Marco Cappelli | David Shea | 4:26 |
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